http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Thu, 14 May 2026 01:36:13 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/#comment-162998 Degeneration, by Max Nordau. Adnotated. Diagnosis. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:27:17 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60664#comment-162998 [...] model is, like all popular understanding, insufficiently vast. The genetic code, as a mechanism, is in fact mindbogglingly, staggeringly immense. The real [...] [...] model is, like all popular understanding, insufficiently vast. The genetic code, as a mechanism, is in fact mindbogglingly, staggeringly immense. The real [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/#comment-155908 The problem with Bostrom's trilemma on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:48:03 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60664#comment-155908 [...] "humans"ii are (and indeed they are), they're nevertheless not meaningfully advanced in any sort of human-relevant terms. There is a humongous space of unyielding complexity between "objective", in the sense of mere [...] [...] "humans"ii are (and indeed they are), they're nevertheless not meaningfully advanced in any sort of human-relevant terms. There is a humongous space of unyielding complexity between "objective", in the sense of mere [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/#comment-153810 thelastpsychiatrist.com - Parenting and Personality Disorders. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:19:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60664#comment-153810 [...] the same behaviors. ———The authors made no such discovery. The authors took a remarkably tiny sample, which is necessarily biased by its insignificant minuscularity, then they fit some [...] [...] the same behaviors. ———The authors made no such discovery. The authors took a remarkably tiny sample, which is necessarily biased by its insignificant minuscularity, then they fit some [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/#comment-146862 The problem of complexity. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:31:48 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60664#comment-146862 [...] come up with will be necessarily simple. You're not getting even remotely close to anything else, how should I put this [...] [...] come up with will be necessarily simple. You're not getting even remotely close to anything else, how should I put this [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/#comment-145310 The three watches on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:58:57 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60664#comment-145310 [...] NOT EVER ONCE did it occur to them, as it doesn't occur to you right now, that in point of fact three watches bought for a cost of ten pounds each are a better instrument together than a hundred pound watch [...] [...] NOT EVER ONCE did it occur to them, as it doesn't occur to you right now, that in point of fact three watches bought for a cost of ten pounds each are a better instrument together than a hundred pound watch [...]

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