Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. Executive editor: https://xitter.cf/t.co/XiUa7Kjo04
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I had a nice talk with Bo Winegard for Aporia. Why do people enjoy being morally outraged? One possibility is that every accusation reshuffles the social deck, and the people enjoying the outrage usually come out ahead.
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Bo is joined by @rkurzban to discuss the evolutionary function of emotions. aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast…
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"Sadly, the question is not if cognitive decline begins, but when. Peak full-scale IQ probably occurs in the 30s." aporiamagazine.com/p/what-ag…
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"The notion that you’ll be less intelligent tomorrow than you are today is rather unsettling. We’d all like to believe that the longer we live, the smarter we’ll become." aporiamagazine.com/p/what-ag…
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"AI development isn’t stopping here. And while this may leave us with more GDP to consume, it also represents something tragic. We will no longer be masters of our own destiny. For that torch will have passed to the machines." thecritic.co.uk/twilight-of-…
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"The regime’s endorsement of apparently contradictory priorities—conservative Islamic traditions and LGBT moral pedagogy—makes sense once you recognise that their effect is to destabilise the historic majority." aporiamagazine.com/p/symboli…
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"Elite progressive culture celebrates diversity with almost religious fervor, but beneath the celebration is often a deep anxiety about difference—a fear of difference masquerading as a celebration of it." aporiamagazine.com/p/not-eve…
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A new podcast interview I did with @NoahCarl90 for @AporiaMagazine.
Topics: evolutionary psychology, evolution of human intelligence, AI risks.
Full audio (60 mins): aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast…
YouTube clip (6 mins): youtube.com/watch?v=6yfT61Y5…
Noah is joined by @gmiller to discuss the evolution of intelligence and why AI is a threat to "everything we know and love". aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast…
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Noah is joined by @gmiller to discuss the evolution of intelligence and why AI is a threat to "everything we know and love". aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast…
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"When thinking about such a polarizing and provocative topic, it is important to approach the evidence as dispassionately as possible." aporiamagazine.com/p/sexual-…
"The starting point here is that the college campus is not some “hunting ground” populated by vulnerable women and predatory men, but neither are problems of sexual assault an ideological invention conjured into existence by expansive survey definitions."
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My review of Kathryn Paige Harden's new book Original Sin is out in Quillette. Harden disavows the quasi-religious conception of free will that underpinned The Genetic Lottery only to embrace a new brand of mysticism that licenses her to reaffirm the same social-justice ideology.
Can your genes excuse a crime?
@DamienMorris reviews @kph3k 's Original Sin and argues that its answer amounts to a kind of secular Calvinism.
quillette.com/2026/10/10/the…
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In your writings, how often have you stuck with the Voldemort principle? Specifically avoiding to link or cite certain people or their work because you didn't want to stir or get into trouble 'by association', or help their reach grow? Scotty A provides a 2022 example here.
Noah Carl has the write-up on this principle in practice.
aporiamagazine.com/p/he-who-…
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Amusing stuff. The academic Voldemort principle is quite apt.
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"The Academic Voldemort Principle is the practice whereby left-wing scholars refuse to cite the work of disfavoured individuals—even when directly criticising it." aporiamagazine.com/p/he-who-…
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"How common are false rape accusations? The oft-cited “2–8%” statistic cannot be trusted." aporiamagazine.com/p/how-com…
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"Asian immigrants to the United States cause white flight. This is because of education competition in public schools. The effect is huge: the arrival of one Asian student leads to 1.5 white departures". aporiamagazine.com/p/asian-i…
I thought Scott Cooper's Black Mass was a quite good deconstruction of the mob film. Instead of joy, charm, charisma, family, and tragedy we get hypocrisy, betrayal, and petty greed. The antihero is drained of appealing qualities and is just a ghastly representation of appetite.
