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In his 1785 Cambridge prize essay, Thomas Clarkson wrote that sub-Saharan Africans would develop to intellectual & civilisational parity with Europeans if only we abolish the slave trade
18th century moral optimism aged poorly. Shame we can't dig this Clarkson up & show him the results
I wonder how the racial optimism of the current era will age
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To step away from the paper being AI prose, I'm amused by the huge number of academics who assume that if we had better identification of racial ancestry than self-ID box checking, the correlations between race and IQ would be lower.
Obviously, they'd be higher.
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Had the data shown that cognitive traits are not heritable, it would not have been blocked by ethics restrictions.
"Ethics restrictions" = ideological censorship of inconvenient priors
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It seems very likely that humans will never again lead the frontier of understanding the universe.
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Terence Tao: AI could let us do decades of mathematical research at a scale that was never possible before.
“We prove one theorem at a time, or maybe two or three if you are efficient.”
“With AI, you could take a class of 1,000 similar problems and try to solve all of them.”
“You can start exploring the space of problems rather than just each problem separately.”
“Right now, that could take decades and dozens of papers.”
“With these tools, you could really start doing mathematics on a scale which is unprecedented.”
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openai casually announcing that its ai system has disproved the exponential time hypothesis is fucking absurd.
eth has been a foundational assumption in theoretical computer science for decades. hundreds of papers have relied on it to establish conditional hardness results.
and now an internal ai model has reportedly produced a lean-verified refutation.
HOLY SHIT. openai just announced a series of enormous scientific breakthroughs from its internal ai models
> proved the local smoothing conjecture in all dimensions, resolving kakeya and stein’s restriction conjectures
> disproved the exponential time hypothesis, a foundational assumption behind hundreds of computer science papers
> produced existence proofs for QCD and a unified completion of the standard model
> proved the existence part of yang–mills theory, connected to a $1 million millennium prize problem
several of these results have already been formalized in lean, and some of the biggest names in mathematics and theoretical physics are now involved in examining them.
this is getting completely insane.
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Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! openai.com/index/building-sc…
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Reconstructed face of a 2,000 years old Roman soldier.
Who was this brutally murdered man? The researchers think he was more likely to have been a regular soldier than an officer.
At around 1.90 metres, the man was surprisingly tall for the time and very muscular. Archaeologists in the early 1980s therefore suggested that he might have been a Frisian. The latest dating methods led the team to a different conclusion: isotopes in the man’s tooth enamel indicate a childhood spent in Southern Europe.
universiteitleiden.nl/en/new…
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An honest ‘student protester’ in France explains why he’s protesting.
The question: “Why are you protesting?”
He replies: “I don’t know. I’m just here to smash and destroy things.”
But they just want a better education, you guys.
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fertility rates are so abstract that people struggle to understand the scale of the catastrophe we’re experiencing.
take 1.14 children per woman (italy and japan)
if that continues, each generation is roughly half the size of the one before it
start with 100 people in a generation, the next only has about 54, then 29, then 16.
in three generations, roughly a century, you have a generation 84% smaller than the one you started with.
for taiwan that would be 97.4%!
i don't think people really understand what that means
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It means entire countries and cultures will go extinct forever
fertility rates are so abstract that people struggle to understand the scale of the catastrophe we’re experiencing.
take 1.14 children per woman (italy and japan)
if that continues, each generation is roughly half the size of the one before it
start with 100 people in a generation, the next only has about 54, then 29, then 16.
in three generations, roughly a century, you have a generation 84% smaller than the one you started with.
for taiwan that would be 97.4%!
i don't think people really understand what that means
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German broadcasting commission proposes to force social media platforms to fill 20% of their algorithmic recommendations with state-approved content that promotes values such as "diversity"
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You're all obsessed with @nathancofnas's work on race and IQ and totally sleeping on his most important paper. (We are not the same.)
link.springer.com/article/10…
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BREAKING - UK police are refusing to arrest a Nottingham iman after he called for Muslims in the UK and other white nations to take up arms in jihad to carry out preemptive strikes against white people and white nations.
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Being a chinaman in 2026 has to be one of the biggest flexes of all time.🇨🇳
The boomer gens of the chinese when through a famine and Mao Zedong to becoming a powerhouse of a nation and a ethno states that is 99% Mandarin Chinese.
The White man should take some notes🤔
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11, 12 and 14 years old
Raped for days by more than 20 Pakistani immigrants.
Tortured—one had her tongue nailed to the wall to keep her still while they raped her.
The police ridiculed, insulted, and ignored them.
The feminists turned the other way.
If it hadn't been for Elon Musk, who publicly shared the trial testimonies, sparking outrage from Reform UK and internal investigations, no one would have known anything.
You're not angry enough.
