On the CSPI podcast this week, I talked to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz about his books Everybody Lies and Don’t Trust Your Gut. It was a fun conversation. We have many of the same interests, including politics and sports. Honestly, reading his books I thought that Stephens-Davidowitz got ahead of the data a bit on some of his conclusions, but in the interview I generally found that he had good answers to many of my concerns and even when I disagreed with his interpretations, they were more reasonable than I had previously thought.
"It’s a good argument for open immigration. Like people say, oh these poor immigrants that come, they just want people to mow their lawn and watch their kids and clean their houses. It’s like yes, that’s what the happiness data says I should be spending my money on, spending less time doing the things I hate."
And the landscaper that pays well with decent wages goes out of business to the under the table guy working in hazardous conditions for peanuts. And the schools are overfilled, and the Medicaid and health services strained and underfunded. I guess human exploitation is ok as long as you aren't spending time doing things you hate. It's amazing you could just gloss over the negatives of open immigration like this.
He seems like an interesting, thoughtful guy, but other than the Holocaust card (which, admittedly, is a big card) he didn't answer your question about the relentless focus on hate crimes. He skipped straight past that and straight to the solution, and didn't address the point that our obsession with hate crimes might be fueling them (it's a great way to get attention.)
The Google Trends hack, and how in academia that's basically witchcraft and in the private, financial sector it's business as usual, is very revealing!
Education is suppose to give you tools to live in the real world. It is not suppose to change the real world so the theoretical tools work.
Capitalism provides incentives that push the human spirit to its limits. Democracy prevents capitalism from harming society, which does not include hurt feelings. or that things cannot always be made to balance winners and losers (nothing can do that)
Regarding A Good Argument for Immigration: It is not sustainable because the children of immigrants will also need immigrants.
However, due to raising wages so everybody can afford someone to do unpleasant tasks with the goal of raising everyone's standard of living becomes impossible. The ultra left doesn't seem to realize that there is always going to be someone that gets paid less than the average and has a less than standard level of living. This does not make them under served or treated unfairly.
Do you have a link to the West Point physiognomy paper? Interested to see what they controlled for. GPA and athletic ability are obviously relevant to the military, but there are also personality factors that probably aren't as easy to quantify, which can make a significant difference to performance in military leadership roles.
"Well the physiology… If you give people testosterone injections their personality will change, their looks will change too. So the mind and the body are not that separate. Certain hormones and traits will be associated with both."
It would probably be an absolute madman move, but has any conservative doctor attempted to produce right leaning transgender people through application of hormones, science, etc? Imagine your average woman wanting to transition to a man, rather than giving her a "normal" dose of HRT, Dr. Hanania gives her a mega dose of testosterone, maybe some trenbolone, etc. Producing a hypermasculine affect that hopefully contributes to a rightward turn in personal politics and personality.
Upon reading the second subtitle, my first instinct was that it refers to how the presence of their coreligionists would deter Muslims from blowing up sporting events. Boy, was I wrong. I do admire Mr. Hannania's congeniality, but still, wouldn't "say mean things about" had been better phrasing than "hate crimes", considering this site's principles? Politeness only goes so far before turning into kowtowing.
No mention of the adverse effects of social media? Nor concern with the monopolistic and inappropriate censoring of searches by Google? I'll trust my gut, thank you very much.
I do believe humans try to read physiognomy. If so, it must be somewhat accurate. Very unfashionable idea these days. The blank slate is still an underlying assumption I believe, While incentives don’t get enough traction. Huge incentive for predicting who a stranger might be. Thousands of years of attention to subtle markers to refine these perceptions. Why hasn’t epigenetics destroyed the blank slate hypothesis?
As for academia, there are huge incentives to play intellectual games and few incentives to ask challenging questions. Your colleagues might just cut off the limb you’ve climbed out on. The destruction of tenure is stupid. Will we see the destruction of the current university system as a result of how useless it is? A college education is little more than an finishing school credential and the professors are firmly beholden to the government corporate complex. Nothing interesting originates there.
"It’s a good argument for open immigration. Like people say, oh these poor immigrants that come, they just want people to mow their lawn and watch their kids and clean their houses. It’s like yes, that’s what the happiness data says I should be spending my money on, spending less time doing the things I hate."
And the landscaper that pays well with decent wages goes out of business to the under the table guy working in hazardous conditions for peanuts. And the schools are overfilled, and the Medicaid and health services strained and underfunded. I guess human exploitation is ok as long as you aren't spending time doing things you hate. It's amazing you could just gloss over the negatives of open immigration like this.
He seems like an interesting, thoughtful guy, but other than the Holocaust card (which, admittedly, is a big card) he didn't answer your question about the relentless focus on hate crimes. He skipped straight past that and straight to the solution, and didn't address the point that our obsession with hate crimes might be fueling them (it's a great way to get attention.)
The Google Trends hack, and how in academia that's basically witchcraft and in the private, financial sector it's business as usual, is very revealing!
Education is suppose to give you tools to live in the real world. It is not suppose to change the real world so the theoretical tools work.
Capitalism provides incentives that push the human spirit to its limits. Democracy prevents capitalism from harming society, which does not include hurt feelings. or that things cannot always be made to balance winners and losers (nothing can do that)
Regarding A Good Argument for Immigration: It is not sustainable because the children of immigrants will also need immigrants.
However, due to raising wages so everybody can afford someone to do unpleasant tasks with the goal of raising everyone's standard of living becomes impossible. The ultra left doesn't seem to realize that there is always going to be someone that gets paid less than the average and has a less than standard level of living. This does not make them under served or treated unfairly.
Do you have a link to the West Point physiognomy paper? Interested to see what they controlled for. GPA and athletic ability are obviously relevant to the military, but there are also personality factors that probably aren't as easy to quantify, which can make a significant difference to performance in military leadership roles.
"Well the physiology… If you give people testosterone injections their personality will change, their looks will change too. So the mind and the body are not that separate. Certain hormones and traits will be associated with both."
It would probably be an absolute madman move, but has any conservative doctor attempted to produce right leaning transgender people through application of hormones, science, etc? Imagine your average woman wanting to transition to a man, rather than giving her a "normal" dose of HRT, Dr. Hanania gives her a mega dose of testosterone, maybe some trenbolone, etc. Producing a hypermasculine affect that hopefully contributes to a rightward turn in personal politics and personality.
Upon reading the second subtitle, my first instinct was that it refers to how the presence of their coreligionists would deter Muslims from blowing up sporting events. Boy, was I wrong. I do admire Mr. Hannania's congeniality, but still, wouldn't "say mean things about" had been better phrasing than "hate crimes", considering this site's principles? Politeness only goes so far before turning into kowtowing.
No mention of the adverse effects of social media? Nor concern with the monopolistic and inappropriate censoring of searches by Google? I'll trust my gut, thank you very much.
I do believe humans try to read physiognomy. If so, it must be somewhat accurate. Very unfashionable idea these days. The blank slate is still an underlying assumption I believe, While incentives don’t get enough traction. Huge incentive for predicting who a stranger might be. Thousands of years of attention to subtle markers to refine these perceptions. Why hasn’t epigenetics destroyed the blank slate hypothesis?
As for academia, there are huge incentives to play intellectual games and few incentives to ask challenging questions. Your colleagues might just cut off the limb you’ve climbed out on. The destruction of tenure is stupid. Will we see the destruction of the current university system as a result of how useless it is? A college education is little more than an finishing school credential and the professors are firmly beholden to the government corporate complex. Nothing interesting originates there.