According to wordpress statistics, when I founded this blog in 2014, about 9,773 unique visitors stopped by sometime during the year. At the time I wasn’t famous, so the fact that nearly 10,000 people a year were already reading my blog was a huge thrill!
Then in 2015 the unthinkable happened. A mind blogging 140,844 people read my blog! Well, I’ve peaked I thought. It’s all downhill from here.
Then in 2016 a STRATOSPHERIC 334,202 people read my blog.
And in 2017, I’ve come dangerously close to the half million mark, with 406,170 readers.
I’d like to thank each and every one of you!
And a special thanks to all my great guest bloggers and prolific commenters, without whom this blog would be a much less interesting place!
Happy belated New Year!
illuminaticatblog said:
Not sure if I posted this previously but I think it is worth mentioning again because white matter determines the topology of the brains network and thus the flow of information. (fluid intelligence) When I am solving a problem I can usually tell when I run out of fluid intelligence, when too much information cannot fit in my head. But recently I have had greater mental clarity so I can take time to think.
http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/yale-neuroscientists-can-now-determine-human-intelligence-through-brain-scans
libertarian socialism: an oxymoron said:
Do you attract ad revenue off of this blog?
pumpkinperson said:
Foolishly no. Never thought I’d have this many readers this quickly so haven’t had time to monetize it.
libertarian socialism: an oxymoron said:
Ah, I see. Keep up the great content.
name redacted jan 7, 2018 said:
i suggest more posts with pictures of black penises.
The Philosopher said:
Well congratulations on this achievement. My blog in its first year had more viewers than your first year so it makes me think I could have built an audience very quickly had I persisted with blogging.
My blog was very eclectic though. I covered sport, film, economics, politics, philosophy, sex etc etc.
The Philosopher said:
I’ve noticed the number of unique commenters has declined a lot since I started blogging. Wonder why that is.
The Philosopher said:
Since I started commenting#
GondwanaMan said:
You’re such a dominant overwhelming force, that’s why.
"oprah" spelled backwards is "satan". said:
you have seen the skill of a true ninja#
The Philosopher said:
Pumpkin tried to suicide his blog by banning its best commenters and introducing censorship just to stop people from reading me. Desperate. So desperate.
The Philosopher said:
Just admit it pumpkin, you are deeply envious of the cult following I am dragging to this blog. I bet even Oprah reads my comments and thinks – yes I am a magic negro. I am. I am a sacred being full of inter-celestial mumu juice. Yes. Yes I am.
The Philosopher said:
Steve Sailer reposted an entire speech by Netanyahu on the importance of Israel’s border verboten. Hahaha. The next story is of a black jew being barred from Israel just to attend a religious event .
This is why I say that the jews don’t actually believe in ‘rac-ism’ and that the concept is pavolonian treachery. To me when I hear you guys use the word ‘rac-ist’, I see it immediately as jewish black star language. They don’t believe in it. Its a complete hoax. Thats why I have no moral issues with being a ‘rac-ist’ because the people that invented the term and promote it the most are themselves, ‘race-ists’ as are blacks in africa and indians in india and so on.
The only people who are scared of being called a rac-ist are people with weak intellects and weak minds.
My sister said to me in the hospital “youre only saying that because youre racist”. I said yes. I am racist and I have a right to that opinion out loud to the whole waiting room.
The Philosopher said:
verbatim#
The Philosopher said:
Just because one is race-ist however doesn’t mean one should be impolite or violent for no reason. There is an interesting topic to be discussed about how much bigotry is ideal in a country or republic. I can honestly say the West suffers from not enough bigotry. That being said some countries, for example, Israel, practice extreme xenophobia in a pretty sadistic way. You cannot go around impaling people like that.
The Philosopher said:
If you think American jews don’t see the hypocrisy about the way they treat Arabs you must be on drugs. 90% of the journalist-priests that give sermons to the intellectually dull about raycithm are well aware of their tribes actions towards african jews and arabs and are psychopathic about it as is their genetic personality.
pumpkinperson said:
Lion would go ballistic if he saw you say that. He argues elite Jews actually hate Israel and preach diversity because Jews are the least psychopathic and least ethnocentric of any group.
The Philosopher said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA
The Philosopher said:
One of the most jarring realisations normies have is realising someone is a psychopath. For example, if you see people talk about some serial killers or white collar criminals in these documentaries they always mention how profoundly shocked that the person could be so articulate and well mannered and then exhibit such behaviour. This is something I’m trying to get you all to understand with the journalist-priests columns you read in your magazine or the words the newsreader reads out to you on the edited prompter . The ((((early christian leaders and priests))) making up stories about miracles and ‘revelations’ are the same. They lie with such a an articulate demeanour. Its reptilian.
People are just very shocked when they find out that people can act like that.
Still the best documentary of all time:
ian smith said:
https://www.thelocal.it/20170411/life-expectancy-in-italy-has-fallen
The Philosopher said:
If you understand the cult leader, you understand your own morality.
In more feverish sequences one sees the tawdry truth about human nature.
Look at the two women at his feet. These could be your mother, sister, wife. In a sense they usually are for the Michael the Messiah’s of this world. No one is immune. Not even me.
And so the natural question is whether mind slavery is a feature of humanity, and not a bug.
i still control zimbabwe with my mind. said:
pill’s and my theories are 100% compatible.
the way it works is…
1% are capable of forming their own moral judgments, but for 99% doing such is as crazy as printing one’s own money.
so it’s not that right and wrong are not real. it’s that for 99% right and wrong are just what’s cool or uncool, fashionable or gauche, etc.
of course i put myself in the 1% which is very suspicious.
but it has been my actual experience.
99% are puppets.
sociopaths are puppets too.
but they are puppets who don’t know that they are puppets.
this is ideology.
pumpkinperson said:
pill’s and my theories are 100% compatible
No, pill believes elites are motivated mostly by ethnic interests, you believe they’re motivated mostly by economic interests.
oprah wants me inside her. said:
NO!
i believe they are motivated by both.
AND
this motivation is not always apparent to the dramatis personae themselves.
that is…
the actions of peoples can be explained by largely subconscious motives, motives which the individual actors are only dimly aware of.
this is what’s called an “emergent” property.
and the ruling individualist ideology denies this is possible.
pumpkinperson said:
i believe they are motivated by both.
But pill thinks it’s primarily ethnic
the actions of peoples can be explained by largely subconscious motives, motives which the individual actors are only dimly aware of.
Correct. Chomsky for example may not be aware that his theories are motivated by ethnic interests.
dumb things behaving smartly as a group. it happens. said:
surprising krulwich acceded given the consequences. but abumrad is an arab.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/
The Philosopher said:
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancient-origins.net%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffield%2Fimage%2FThe-Enigmatic-Imiut.jpg&f=1
From the very beginning there was always Michael.
He made up THE TRUTH. And people gave him status, ornaments, women, and luxury.
Why?
Why does Michael captivate people?
Why did Mohammed? Why did Martin Luther King? Why did Hollywood producers?
This is a feature. Not a bug. People want to believe.
Bruno said:
Congrats ! Your success is all the more remarkable given the content you publish and your being anonymous and not pretending to be an amoral sexy teen 😉
Gypsyman said:
Congrats PP, here’s to 2018
RuralRuski said:
PP, I wish you great 2018 with – who knows? – a breakthrough in film industry now
i still control zimbabwe with my mind. said:
i’m pretty sure oprah is an actual monkey.
no human could look that much like a monkey.
because that! said:
lesbianism is out of control.
i went to a hardware store today and the whole staff was lesbians.
pumpkinperson said:
i went to a hardware store today and the whole staff was lesbians.
You have that effect on women
oprah wants me inside her. said:
that’s funny, because one of my favorite things to do is pick up women at lesbian bars.
ian smith said:
i have never seen a sasquatch in the wilderness.
i have had sex with many sasquatches in gas station bathrooms.
that’s where they hang out in the pacific northwest.
men fear they’ll catch syphilis or hiv from them…
so a lot of them become lesbians.
oprah is a cannibal. said:
an example of a high non-verbal IQ was given in Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia season 1 episode 6. guy was a competent metallurgist, machinist, and synthetic organic chemist.
he dropped out to get high.
The Philosopher said:
Sometimes I think pumpkin understands everything I say because he can even suggest what I would actually say when he is talking about me. So its bizarre how he still believes in the ‘legacy of colonialism’ and ‘institutional racism’. Just a real head scrathcher.
pumpkinperson said:
So its bizarre how he still believes in the ‘legacy of colonialism’ and ‘institutional racism’.
I don’t see how you can deny that blacks are at a competitive disadvantage coming from slavery and apartheid, with no opportunity to build and pass on wealth for centuries. I still believe in HBD, in fact HBD explains why other races could conquer and exploit them in the first place. Just because the media uses the legacy of slavery to manipulate whites into feeling guilty, doesn’t mean it’s a lie.
Bruno said:
Oprah Winfrey saying what we do is tell you the truth , while speaking about black women being raped by white men, is really striking.
pumpkinperson said:
Not sure what you’re referring to.
Bruno said:
http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/08/entertainment/oprah-globes-speech-transcript/index.html
Also she may be interested in the top job.
JS said:
So why do you have a few commenters on this site, if your readership is in the hundreds of thousands?
pumpkinperson said:
It’s hundreds of thousands spread out over a whole year, not on any one day & most just stumble on the blog during google searches and only stay briefly
Bruno said:
Pumpkin does your statistic count the number of different ip (a) or just the total number of connections (b)
is there a minimum time/content spent (1) or just a hit’ is enough (2)
is it per day (x) or each separated occurrence count as a visitor (y)
Because a (b2y) be equal to 5k (a1x) and you may have 100 visitors with 20 commenters.
I’m just asking because I have no idea of metrology and a fortiori in internet matters.
And even 100 regular visitors would be good .
pumpkinperson said:
No idea how its calculated or how accurate it is
My guess is visitors is the number of unique IPs but of course one person might use multiple IPs so the stat might give an inflated picture of how many readers
Bruno said:
YesI thought ip would be 0.5 person because people can connecte themselves at work with their local WiFi (bad idea) or have two residencies or use internet app that generates different ip, that’s only partially cancelled out by different peop’e sharing the same ip (siblings, Public internet places etc ). But all that is a Minos factor .
But the other three factors are the one who make difference in a factor 10, 100 or more than1000 .
JS said:
Still, not to knock on you. You should have gotten a lot more commenters than your usual following with an average of 40K visitors per month.
pumpkinperson said:
To be honest pill & Mug of Pee scare all the commenters away. They’re creepy
name redacted by pp jan 10, 2018 said:
when peepee says “creepy”, she means “sexy”.
The Philosopher said:
I am sexy. That much I know.
RaceRealist said:
Genetic mutations don’t need to occur for epigenetically induced phenotypic changes.
‘”This finding rejects the common (and confused) hypothesis that epigenetically induced phenotypic changes depend on genetic mutations. Furthermore, we argue that transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is not required for evolution by genetic assimilation.”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/04/242206
The Philosopher said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/netanyahu-son-bragged-about-gas-deal-outside-strip-club-tape-reveals
I told you israeli politics was the dirtiest in the world. As my conception of jews would suggest.
Bruno said:
It is everywhere the same since ever. Wealthiest acquire or maintain their wealth through the proximity to the head of state , or his surrogates Dow the line. That was Roman debate, féodality, Versailles etc. This story is just an illustration of a normal thing .
The Philosopher said:
No. Someone is leaking the tape of the pms son in a private conversation in a taxi is blackmail. Thats not normal in other countries. Thats like someone following macrons son around adnd recording him the whole time so that one day his enemies can leak the tape to a newspaper editor. Think!
Bruno said:
I don’t see any culture were wealth doesn’t flow from acquaintances with public institutions or organized markets . That s true in the USA too.
The Philosopher said:
Agree. But 1st world countrries limit it better than kleptocountries.
The Philosopher said:
Israeli domestic politics has had tons of corruption scandals. The point isnt that people are corrupt. Its that people are exposing it to nail these people for machievellian reasons. Doesnt matter which party.
The Philosopher said:
Coutnries are rich when elites are less predatory – see diff between lat america and north america. Fetguson made a good point in his book that la nd reform creates a moddle class more than an industrial revolution.
For example ireland never industrialised but did do land reforms mid century.
They are trying it in india now.
The Philosopher said:
How predatory an elite is depends on their race. Jews being the absolute worst and capable of corrupting boy scouts. Mena elites in general have a dismal view of human nature precisely because those humans are pretty survival inclined.
African dictators are at least honest and i suppose less evil in the sense they dont try and brainwash people or have wild conspiracies of power and fake news outlets pretending to shine light on power hahaha.
Robert is half right that blacks cant be evil in the sense evil requires an iq. Its the same reason why blacks cant do slavery or brainwashing.
The Philosopher said:
Is slavery evil?
Honestly that is a very hard question for me philosophically. Because one asks is natural law evil? Is the lion killing the deer evil. Are jews enslaving whites in mind control carnival mirror houses evil? Is this not evolution?
You then have to say ok the lion is natural law but gentile jew is evil.
But why?
These are tough questions. Jews might say natural law. And then you might say slavery is natural law and it kind of exists anyway without a universal basic income?
There has to be an objective yardstick of some sort to distinguish natural law and feelings. Clubbing a seal is evil to many people but natural law objectively.
In my opinion the answers lie in aesthetics. That is people that club seals look evil. People that build carnival mirrors for goys look like goblins. Its simplisitc but i think a n elegant solution to the yardstick problem because even children can sense it withkut being suaded to favour one side or another.
The Philosopher said:
I am a genius.
I am wasted on this blogs readers. I should have my own tv show.
Bruno said:
If you want to read a verbal genious manipulator, read the Oprah speech. I was stoned by her manipulative skills. The way she stool the meeto movement, while being a friend a Weinstein et al, put the blame away from the industry, and herself at the center, with a aura of truth and engagement and authenticity – which is by definition the opposite of any actor business – etc is amazing . She must have sky high manipulative skills . She boxes in same category as Trump or Hitler.
pumpkinperson said:
I agree she’s a master manipulator, but everyone important in Hollywood was friendly with Weinstein. The Obamas even let their daughter intern with him.
The Philosopher said:
Oprah is not a ‘master manipulator’. She rode the magic negro jew wave. Its obvious if she was in China or India or Latin America she would have gotten nowhere. 90% of her fame is from the magic negro effect. i.e. gentiles are taught by jewish commissars to weigh every talent or achievement of a magic negro multiplied by 100.
pumpkinperson said:
Oprah is not a ‘master manipulator’. She rode the magic negro jew wave
Then why haven’t any other blacks been able to ride this wave at such a high level, except for Obama, & even he was largely Oprah’s doing?
pumpkinperson said:
if she was in China or India or Latin America she would have gotten nowhere
Oprah would have likely been one of the top blacks in whatever society she lived in, though in many countries the ceiling for blacks is very low
The Philosopher said:
If jews dont exist. Oprah doesnt exist.
The Philosopher said:
I think god might exist in the sense that god created objects in our world that have narratives around them. What i would say is that things that favlur more life tend be good and things that favour enslavement and predation tend to be evil for human beings.
We create a narrative to ‘reason’ why we want life and not null force.
It gets vety meta though if you say god creating the manichean split was not being objective when he did it.
Bruno said:
It a an interesting theory . It works with Obama . The way pundits valued his speeches is not natural . For me, I would say that my expectations are downgraded for certain people, then I give them more credit . It happens with child from « helpers » . I’ve always found them extreme intelligent when they had a >120 IQ. Because I like what’s rare . And because the exception is more interesting than the obvious rule.
The Philosopher said:
Objectivity can exiat in the micro but not the macro maybe. I think its possible you have phenomenon that are self contained and are logical in themselves but dont scale up. I think you can objectively observe things as it applies to small numbers but larger groups mean there is too many factors that exist to even make a moral judgement. So by magnifying the glass outwards morality disappears. But it exists. Oh it exists!
The Philosopher said:
The trolley problem shows that morality in the micro might not exist in so far as ‘justice’ is concerned. Ie. There are different flavours to morality and vanilla justice is more aubtle than say courage chocolate or strawberry honesty.
These sentences are a lifetimes worth of aerious thought if one is to really think hard about them. Im too lazy to do that. These are just prompts. But if you wanted a definitive moral philosophy you have to really sit down and out the mental horsepower into it. This is why 99% of people let other people make up morality for them.
The Philosopher said:
Honestly i am open to suggestions on morality. I always said the abortion question is the tougbest question for me as i understand both sides. Theres no elegant solutions in morality maybe.
Its not like epistemology where you trying to find x in the quockest time possible at the right price. Its more like you dont know what you are trying to find and cant value it even when you have.
Things like logic you can use lego block thinking. Tge lego blocks all existed in your mind before you even put the pieces together.
The Philosopher said:
So ive read all the evidence and it seems anti psych meds shrink the brain and not the inflammaton from schiz ophtenia itself. I am going to reduce it.
But the cognitive decline might not come from the shrinking of the brain. It tends to b 6 or 7% of gray matter which is not massive. The gnotive defects may actually be schiz related.
Intuitively i would say having been psychotic that i would be surprised if i can be in thatvstate and not see neurological effects like toxicity just from the stress alone. As ive related in that state my vision has the tint of a limousine window and i the only thing i can think about is to destroy the threat.
The Philosopher said:
Id say its a bit like being in a dream and you have an overwhelming feeling of your brain kind of melting or shortcircuiting. The thoughts are like bullet trains. Everything kind of makes sense at the time.its wonderful you should try it! See the dark side of the moon .
When your eyes hit the sky at the big pizza pie its amore. La da da da.
I think the psychosis people can get is very different depending on the persons personality. For me i think about threats. But i think anime related he hallucinates. Still others go catatonic or have delusions.
Mh theory is that the type of personality cluster a type you have will determine what happens when you ‘snap’. If you are schizoid you will go catatonic. If you are schizotylal you will hallucinate.etc Even people with no personality ‘disorders’ will have a pattern in their personality. That could let you oredict what would happen if you killed their children in front of them.
illuminaticatblog said:
Dec 2015 I saw this.
Aug 2016 this picture is 10 percent of what I saw.
The other two were bad trips.
An oddly they were exactly one year apart.
Jun 4, 2016
Jun 4, 2017
The Philosopher said:
The mond doesnt just break. It breaks according to a survival pattern. Psychosis is an exaggerated survival pattern. Freud had a lot of ideas about it. He thinks its unresolved needs being met. I think hes right but not in his sense of childhood needs. I think psychosis might be a way fro people to meet their own psychological needs withlut actually changing their environment maybe.
The Philosopher said:
Its a in case of emergency break glass resource.
But it doesnt explain childhood schizophrenia. Are these kids not having certain needs met? Too sensitive?
Ill always remember the doc about the little girl who sees fairies and talking animals. Was she particularly lonely? Or is that state in existence to keep her from ever being lonely? Genetic memories. Imprinting. Mother might have had lonliness problems?
name redacted by jan 11, 2018 said:
so now pill is just repeating what i’ve said so many times regarding the cause of “distress”.
the best way to meet one’s psychological needs is not to have any.
the diamond path to happiness is not to want what one doesn’t have.
diogenes was the voice crying in the wilderness and jesus in one person.
The Philosopher said:
Badcock is right that autism might be hyper male brain. But hes wrong the schizophrenia exists more in females. I would say in my experience and from what ive read schizophrenia exists more in males.
It is better to view autism and schiz in terms of race than ge der. Blacks have schiz most. Asians have aspergers.
Then yoy get to my insight that autism is selected for and schiz is selected by.
The Philosopher said:
Badcock talks a lot of sense about mentalism . I was always going to believe in god in my gut because im hyperr mentalist. All i will say is that to be honest i think im more capable of being circumspect than an autistic peraon is capable of questioning autism. Remember the reciprcal is mechanism and autists see a machine where none exists too.
The Philosopher said:
Badcock never mentioned how autists have no imaginations. I find that the most intellectually deficient cognitive disability. Not the theory of mind actually.
illuminaticatblog said:
In my old videos, I do look catatonic.
I never talk to myself internally.
I cannot draw because I don’t see anything.
when I wish to be creative I can’t so I shut down.
I don’t have problems communicating other than my mannerisms.
I am shaky inside/outside trying to figure out what to say.
This is not all the time but thinking on the spot I am not fluid.
I have no problem understanding the personality of someone.
I got a high g score of 130, and the frontoparietal junction is most correlated with g.
I mention it because it may offset some of the problems I have.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263563/
It is reported in the WAIS-IV Technical Manual that the Figure Weights task measures quantitative and analogical reasoning [8]. These types of Piagetian tasks routinely assess quantitative reasoning that can be expressed mathematically through deductive and inductive logic [3].
The Philosopher said:
It all makes sense now. From a young age i always thought everyone that passed by me in their car on the road was looking at me. I had very bad social anxiety because i thought i was always being watched. That explanation from adcock brought a smile to my face.
kiserofisti said:
The main reason why I follow this blog is to see Mugabe’s comments. I think many would agree with me. Someone should compile a book of his posts. Very interesting poster, even if borderline alcoholic (and I say this as a Finn).
BTW, I didn’t know how red pilled Chris Langan was: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-interpret-this-map-of-IQ-scores
ian smith said:
if you find a publisher post a picture of the book on this site…The Wit and Wisdom of Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
unlike nixon, agnew was convicted of a felony.
kiserofisti said:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-interpret-this-map-of-IQ-scores/answer/Chris-Langan-7
RaceRealist said:
“Because IQ is mostly a matter of nature rather than nurture”
Nature vs nurture is irrelevant and a false dichotomy.
RaceRealist said:
http://www.academia.edu/791831/The_nurturing_of_natures
RaceRealist said:
“Overall, our data show for the first time that, independent of their genetic identity, human MZ twin pairs share an additional level of similarity at the epigenetic level. ESS appears to result from establishment of mitotically heritable epigenetic states prior to embryo cleavage during MZ twinning. Because of ESS, human MZ twins clearly cannot be viewed as the epigenetic equivalent of isogenic inbred mice, which originate from separate zygotes. To the extent that epigenetic variation at ESS loci influences human phenotype, as our data indicate, the existence of ESS establishes a link between early embryonic epigenetic development and adult disease and may call into question heritability estimates based on twin studies.”
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-017-1374-0
ian smith said:
rr has reached the penultimate level of political sophistication. he’s above all the hbders. he can make the last step.
after all…
rr is not fond of hebrews and the last thing he wants is for italians to be replaced by moolies.
italy fought on the side of the allies in WW I and on the side of the axis in WW II. it’s the one western european country which hasn’t been cucked. it lost more men in the first war.
the last step to…
national socialism.
ian smith said:
and rr’s criticism was hinted so many years ago.
some genuine statistician, not a psycholgy PhD fraud, published a paper in Nature claiming that the shared environment of the womb significantly reduced the “true” heritability in the twin populations considered. to this day, not a single HBDer understands why i put “true” in quotes.
but guy’s name is “devlin”. so be very suspicious.
https://www.nature.com/articles/41319
Meta-analysis of 212 previous studies shows that our ‘maternal-effects’ model fits the data better than the ‘family-environments’ model. Maternal effects, often assumed to be negligible, account for 20% of covariance between twins and 5% between siblings, and the effects of genes are correspondingly reduced, with two measures of heritability being less than 50%.
RaceRealist said:
Mugabe, that paper on the ESS was just published today. It’s a hard blow to those who still push twin studies. Look at heritability estimates from actual breeding studies and not flawed twin studies. Substantially lower heritabilities because they can control for way more environmental effects.
I read that Devlin paper the other day. That, too, is a huge blow. This is also another:
Biological systems are complex, non-linear, and non-additive. Heritability estimates are attempts to impose a simplistic and reified dichotomy (nature/nurture) on non-dichotomous processes. Real progress in genetics, developmental and behavioural biology will come from paying attention to Lewontin’s insistence that we attempt to analyse causes, not variances.
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/35/3/525/735798
It’s hilarious how twin studies still get used even with all of these problems. It’s kinda said. It’s pretty much the only thing that gives hereditarians a leg to stand on. Genes aren’t additive. Plomin says that high IQ is a luck of the draw getting more ‘positive’ IQ variants on comparison to ‘negative’ IQ variants. Genes don’t work that way.
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/so-what-gene
Mugabe speaking of Plomin, did you see his latest mental gymnastics published yesterday? Supposedly some new technology can account for ’10 percent of the 50 percent of the variation in IQ’, it’s just more garbage and assumptions from Plomin.
https://t.co/Wz2iwdAqZD?amp=1
RaceRealist said:
Little wonder that Peter Schonemann sarcastically warned that heritability estimates for IQ “surpass anything found in the animal kingdom.” Any objective observer would surely reach the conclusion that human potential is unlikely to be so unusual. Rather, it is the method by which is is estimated that is anomalous., (Richardson, 2017: 65)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9463078/
Lower heritabilities don’t mean lower genetic variation, just that there is little correlation between genotypic and phenotypic variance.
The concept of heritability, as used by behavioral geneticists, is often taken to be the converse of malleablility: for example, thst individuals differences in a trait with higher heritability are quite fixed, and the “generic ranking” will persist whatever the environmental conditions. This harks back to the fatalism and pessimism described in chapter 1.for example, Dalton Conley and colleagues expect that reduced heritability estimates might “suggest that many traits might be more socially malleable than previous research … would suggest.
This is a widespread misconception, because there is no relationship between heritability and malleability in a trait. Heritability says nothing about rankings under different environments. Heritability is about associations between variation (or variance), not identity and causation. A condition like phenylketonuria has a heritability of 1 (there is perfect correlation between generic and phenotypic variation). But the condition is relieved by a simple environmental treatment (removing the amino acid phenylalanine from the diet). Likewise, a heritability of 0 does not mean that genes are not involved in the development of form/function and phenotypic variation. It simply means that there is little correlation between them. Consequently, the heritability of a trait has no implications for predicting individual potential—for example, a child’s IQ from that of its parents—or the success of an intervention. (Richardson, 2017: 69-70)
Oh and most genetic variation is irrelevant because—only in certain circumstances like rare and deleterious disease does it truly matter—its irrelevant to trait function. And even Ronald Fisher noted that traits important for survival have low heritabilities. The classical twin method is based off of false assumptions and an outdated genetic model. It’s time to stop them, stop wasting money on these GWAS studies and put that money to good use.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23903437/
name redacted by pp jan 10, 2018 said:
Look at heritability estimates from actual breeding studies…
so much for cockring’s “breeder’s equation”. i’d like see those.
and not only is it assumed that the additive genetic effect is the majority of the supposed genetic effect by folks like plomin, it is also assumed that this effect extends to genomes yet to be engineered by professor shoe, such that a genome with all the right alleles will have an IQ of 10,000 or some such jive talk.
professor shoe has retired from physics apparently. now he travels the world giving lectures to anyone who’ll listen about his bullshit theory of super intelligent humans resulting from CRISPR. sad!
illuminaticatblog said:
I read that ten percent of white matter wiring arrangement is subject to chance. This can affect intelligence because of control theory in networks. (attractor landscapes). A less efficient network or a more efficient network would be because of that 10 percent.
RaceRealist said:
Mugabe, here’s a good resource for heritability of animal traits.
https://extension2.missouri.edu/G2910
“and not only is it assumed that the additive genetic effect is the majority of the supposed genetic effect by folks like plomin, it is also assumed that this effect extends to genomes yet to be engineered by professor shoe, such that a genome with all the right alleles will have an IQ of 10,000 or some such jive talk.”
Exactly. Thompson talks about the ‘Hsu boundary’ where he estimates he’ll need to genotype one million people to see the ‘genes for IQ’. But. Genes. Do. Not. Work. Like. That.
“professor shoe has retired from physics apparently. now he travels the world giving lectures to anyone who’ll listen about his bullshit theory of super intelligent humans resulting from CRISPR. sad!”
It won’t happen. It’s based on an outdated model of the gene and a misunderstanding of heritability and what it means.
ian smith said:
but at the end of that abstract dalton conman says” Results are similar across approaches and datasets and largely support the validity of the equal environments assumption.
what conman and his fellow retardates don’t grok is that the same environment is not the same for different genomes and that the phenotype is not the genotype + environment, P != G + E. they make the very common mistake of assuming their model of reality IS reality to such an extent that they are not even aware their model is a model.
kiserofisti said:
Quickly googled three sources where the Devlin study is discussed. Nice find, never heard of it before.
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=ee4KTFdIabAC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=maternal+effects+iq+devlin&source=bl&ots=4T_bcLkjSg&sig=UuiiSJ5Vxw1HcvbtH7gUOKrXi9M&hl=fi&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7sN2coc3YAhVH1ywKHQuzBbIQ6AEIQzAD#v=onepage&q=maternal%20effects%20iq%20devlin&f=false
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=IHvqx-6GUUMC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=maternal+effects+iq+devlin&source=bl&ots=IRinv-UHfQ&sig=UCXy0z95t31Zt2F1W4sEx2VMJUg&hl=fi&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7sN2coc3YAhVH1ywKHQuzBbIQ6AEISTAE#v=onepage&q=maternal%20effects%20iq%20devlin&f=false
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=GBU9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT69&lpg=PT69&dq=maternal+effects+iq+devlin&source=bl&ots=YiaUptUCJH&sig=bX3FFukrDefKeSag0_vQBYrWQk8&hl=fi&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7sN2coc3YAhVH1ywKHQuzBbIQ6AEINTAB#v=onepage&q=maternal%20effects%20iq%20devlin&f=false
my tamil dalit parents are ashamed of me. said:
a debate between editors at Jacobin</i. and editors at Reason.
the Reason folks sounded stupid in comparison. their “facts” were false and their points were irrelevant.
interesting also is that the two on the Jacobin side were indians without an accent. one from india. the other from t&t. the two on the Reason side were apparently white gentiles.
The Philosopher said:
The people at Reason magazine are a bunch of fucking retards. Possibly worse than full fledged cuckolds because whereas cuckolds adopt magic negroes because of religion or other sentiment, the reason people apparently justify adopting magical negroes is through logic. I can’t even begin to tell of the depths of malignancy in that.
The Philosopher said:
Hitler wasn’t a ‘manipulator’ you clown. He was basically just saying the truth. He actually believed in everything he said.
ian smith said:
rr will like this. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/debunking-the-hunter-gatherer-workout.html
The Philosopher said:
Langans comment proves what I said a year ago. Social conservativism isn’t a loq IQ thing, and once you get past the brainwashed university grauduate robots anyone with common sense and good ability is going to think – boy a lot of that shit is fuuuuuuuuuuuucked up.
Pumpkin should retract his posts saying conservatives are idiots and people thought to open their legs for refugees are smart.
pumpkinperson said:
Pumpkin should retract his posts saying conservatives are idiots and people thought to open their legs for refugees are smart.
I said liberals are smart. Welcoming refugees is both liberal (helps the refugees) and conservative (helps the elites divide and conquer the masses) and thus implies nothing about IQ.
The Philosopher said:
No conservative in the world supports bringing in refugees to divide the nation. Only beo conservatives.
The Philosopher said:
About 100 years ago until the early middle ages, anyone with a high IQ who came through a university was usually religious and socially conservative. For pumpkin this historical FACT completely contradicts his idea that people who are permissive of gay sex are ‘smart’.
I don’t understand it. How is being permissive of gay sex a sign you are smart. Honestly Id like to hear the reasoning.
pumpkinperson said:
How is being permissive of gay sex a sign you are smart. Honestly Id like to hear the reasoning.
Because secularism, empathy and being open to change are signs of high IQ. Just because something is correlated with IQ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the “correct” view.
The Philosopher said:
Empathy is a feminine trait. Not a sign of intelligence.
pumpkinperson said:
Empathy is a sign of intelligence because you need to be smart enough to see things from the perspective of others, and emotional sensitivity is also correlated with IQ for whatever reason.
illuminaticatblog said:
Cognitive empathy allows you to predict the actions of others. Regular people and also psychopaths can observe and get at what a person will do.
Emotional empathy allows you to understand the kind of person someone is because of personality detection. Its advantage is to understand who is trustworthy. Reading emotions you can understand the whole character of a person and by doing so avoid a situation where you push the wrong buttons. Emotional empathy can push the right buttons.
Cognitive empathy looks at actions thus can look into the rationality behind those actions. Emotional empathy can tell what a person is experiencing emotionally so they can become attuned to the person and act naturally around anyone. Cognitive empathy again sees the reason people do what they do. Reasons are put in a model and that model predicts reasons behind actions. Emotional empathy may not calculate what others will do, but it can know the genuine people from emotional attunement.
(secretly a model of every person on earth is being made to predict what we will do)
The Philosopher said:
Thats social intelligence youre describing. Empathy is affectation for people.
illuminaticatblog said:
Can you relate that to systemizing and empathizing
Wikipedia has whole articles on it.
The Philosopher said:
I honestly dont know what to make of trump anymore. Its very hard tryi g to figure him out. Too early maybe. ATt least there isnt a war with syria as hilary wouldve done.
ian smith said:
psychedelics are not addictive. so why are they illegal in so many countries? not just shit-merica?
are people under the influence more likely to kill or rape or whatever?
in these many countries the possession of psilocybin is illegal. so if you collected these mushrooms in the wild or in your own back yard, you’d be committing a crime.
this is retarded and evil.