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   Jerome (j@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:45:02 JST Jerome

   • iced depresso
   • Alyx Hinata ???
   If you're offended by facts then you're on the wrong side of history. It's that simple.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:44:59 JST iced depresso

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     • Alyx Hinata ???
     @alyx @j the way i understand a lot of modern arguments is more or less survivor bias.
     
     extremely hostile environments demand competence or the organisms die. less hostile ones allow increasingly dumb organisms to survive. (this is talked about in cybernetics some as an organism has to be at least complex enough to understand its environment to survive.)
     
     if you were to raise people in an environment with only temperate weather, the ones who don't have the aptitude to survive frozen wastelands aren't killed by nature. thus a population can be comparatively 'dumber', because another one lived in a more hostile territory.
     
     taleb references it some. in the context of people thinking gulags made russians strong vs. the gulags just killed all the weak ones
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     Alyx Hinata ??? (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:45:01 JST Alyx Hinata ???

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     @j @icedquinn
     Uh huh... Sure. Let me ask you something. How many mirrors do you think a Kenyan household has on average?
     I'm sure the study is accurate, because it does make sense when you realize children from US or Canada are gonna come across far more mirrors and shiny surfaces on a daily basis, and get a chance to "exercise" their ability to recognize what is going on in those reflections.

     Maybe you think this proves something about the inherent genetic potential for intelligence in people from Kenya, or Peru, or whatever. But I think the title referencing culture is more accurate. When you live in poverty, in dirt houses, you're not gonna have the privilege to play with shiny mirrors. So a cultural effect.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:47:18 JST iced depresso

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     @alyx @j (there are a lot of stupid whites too and everyone kind of ignores this part for some reason)