The following is a guest article written by Illuminaticatblog. The views in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Pumpkin Person:
Many commenters on Pumpkin’s blog think very differently. This has led many to call each other autistic. But there is no scientific consensus on what autism is otherwise autism would not be confused with schizophrenia so often. MBTI the personality system does not help. A new system does. It was made by Digibro the Anime YouTuber. Two axis exist.
Lexical thinking is formalized rules thinking. Contrast (impressionistic thinking) is informal rules or patterns that are informal i.e. patterns that are new and hard to explain. creativity does not follow a rules system if new otherwise it is just calculation.
linear vs lateral thinking is easy to explain. multiple vs singular train of thought. they can be conscious or unconscious.
The only true autistic type on the chart would be the human calculator. They will have such a narrow focus that they will only do something if it is complete. They will not deviate and this makes relationships hard because relationships are not a collection of parts that can be categorized.
I am a newtype. I have high lateral thinking and high impressionistic thinking. I think in multiple ways at once and new stuff is coming into my mind all the time.
Here is a chart on blog commenters and their type.
Pumpkin Person 
> “creativity does not follow a rules system if new otherwise it is just calculation.”
There are problems with this statement. There is no consensus on what creativity is. The broad understanding is that inventors are creative. The patent system is based on that.
Nevertheless, there is a system of rules on how to make inventions, which could be patented. That system was developed by the Soviet inventor and science-fiction author Genrich Altshuller. The system name is TRIZ, which stands for “theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks”. That system is used, for example, by Samsung corporation.
a better term for Lexicals opposite would be nonverbal intuition. at least I think it is. I’m not too sure I made my point since you did make it clear how creativity is lexical.
Anime your recommendation for what i embody as a creative thinker (a pure instinct thinker) is entirely on point. wow.
how did you come to the conclusion and what do i have to do better to capitalize on this ability?
you act before you judge and you are usually right. you’ve gain experience point, building an intuition of good/bad actions so if it feels right you know. continue to act but step back if you make a mistake, trust your gut
I go with what feels right and it is hard to explain, usually, I just sit with it till it coalesces. Also, I compare contrast. To make the chart I knew certainly who went where but I had to look at the whole picture to see all the relations.
what experiences do i lack on that make me fail and in what circumstances might they come up? i know thats a very specific question that would require knowledge of my life that no one here really has but what are your assumptions on the matter.
Why are you asking a man who is a ward of the state for life advice? Do you want me to start calling you autistic or dumb? Choose.
you make decisions that sometimes fail to get the results you want, which happens to everyone but your instincts get better because of it. I don’t think there are any specific experiences I can tell you about just how you react to them. which is to become more instinctual.
anime i appreciate it thanks. and pill ive met many people who were much more socially adjusted than you at my times in the ward. some very intellectually capable people who obviously had illnesses and problems that were genetic or caused by the actions of others in their life.
dont be so close-minded you brooder. you are way too blocked off from reality to understand good and bad. trust.
another example of coincidence like the reichstag fire and the assassination of kirov is the frankfurt school’s cultural marxism. it is a real thing with striking similarities to what’s going on today. but i would guess this is only a coincidence.
that is, marcuse’s program does describe what’s going on but i doubt anyone carrying it out knows anything about marcuse. frankfurt school marxism has little represenation in univeristies for one thing.
that is marcuse called for marxist revolution via idpol as the proletariat were pretty happy with things as they were at the time he wrote…a time when unions still had lots of power. there’s even a line from the UP series by one of the winchester boys about how american auto workers could afford to send dey keeds to english public schools but didn’t so stop hating on we public school boys. he was correct when he said that in the 70s. it’s no longer true due to union busting starting with reagan and tuition hikes.
the US from the end of ww ii to the mid 70s really was close to utopia. even thomas friedman said, “you had to make an effort to fail.” that is, wage differentials weren’t so steep and jobs were easy to come by. if you were poor it was because there was something wrong with you. like larry king said, “when i was a kid if you went to private school it was because something was wrong with you.”
btw, LOADED really should read the new testament. it’s christian propaganda. see if he can read it all the way through and not become a roman.
i was raised a muslim and so i was able to read arabic but no comprehend. i was however well-versed in end of times literature in islam.
only chapter i would read in any holy book would probably be the book of revelations. maybe add some psalms and new testament to that but i would not care for mark or any other gospels of jesus. doesnt suit me.
WTF are you talking about, the frankfurt school is the entire liberal arts edifice. Its not called ‘cultural marxism’ obviously by its adherents as this is seen as pejorative, its called ‘postmodernism’. Any liberal arts course at third level embraces it.
there is so much in this world i want to learn and talk about and communicate with others to genuinely make the world a better place. there is good and bad everywhere but i need to start with myself to improve.
Mug is becoming more fascinating by the day. tell me more about your beliefs. i want to know about every esoteric idea you have in relation to religion and spirituality my personal topic of interest. also your thoughts on law of attraction in relation to religion and butterfly effect and more thoughts on free will and how this impacts how decisions are made from a moral perspective and to what extent are our actions/consequences our own.
LOADED is still young. the world is still an interesting place to him. as he grows older, inshallah, he will discover that the world is actually very boring and stupid.
Mug Life after Death is even more boring and stupider than you could imagine. trust.
I thought Critical Race Theory came from the Frankfurt School. At least that’s what I told my dad when he kept asking what it was…
I think I’m more lexical than impressionistic. MBTI is kind of bs, but I am INTP. As far as big 5: I am high in openness, very low in conscientiousness, somewhat low in extraversion, moderate in agreeableness, and fairly high in neuroticism.
that would mean youre not very high in general factor personality because they all correlate with the exception being a negative correlation for neuroticism.
for example i am very high (like very high) in everything but conscientiousness which is more or less due to impulsivity and lack of self control and high in neuroticism due to life events and circumstances. what im basically saying is they correlate with one another pretty strongly.
That is my big 5 profile as well. Also INTP. And I don’t think it is bs. I think it is perceived wrongly, broadly. And sure, as a construct, it is flawed where it matters most: if it’s measuring salience or simply percentage over the rest. If the latter, then you’re really not saying much if anything at all about the person without the qualification of the former. Then what do you do say when you’ve resulted in a virtually flat MBTI profile? I think that’s the difference with big 5. It’s not there to say anything or put people into a type, but that’s not to say such types wouldn’t matter.
you seem pretty agreeable and conscientious enough to me. were you saying youre more similar to me or Teffec? I am extroverted thats all i know for MBTI so i would say you were more likely characterizing yourself as similar to him.
To Teffec. And yeah, people assume I am conscientious and such, but actually pretty sloppy/disorganized and lazy. It has affected me severely in a few cases.
I am guessing I am a ESFP or ENFP in the MBTI typing. I think most of my social struggles have occurred due to being a rapid thinker and making judgments too quickly and maybe putting myself in situations where i thought something was going to happen but it didnt.
there is an upside to thinking but it makes me lose control and gives the other person complete dominance over the situation by allowing them to make the decision or not to and that itself is a struggle since most people are not pro-social enough to put trust in.
Interesting! My understanding is that some of the first-order factors of MBTI don’t correlate strongly enough to be categorized as they are. MBTI isn’t meaningless, but your faith in it and astrology may be due to the “Barnum effect.” Big 5 is more predictive and properly defined, but even that paradigm of course can’t encapsulate an entire person’s character. What comes out of these assessments depends on what goes in, namely subjective responses to equally-weighted, binary questions.
Do you have ADD?
I dont think he does bro. trust.
Lol, not sure if I do, or what I have. I would like to have some diagnosis, because then I can at least have a gameplan for self-improvement that’s not nearly a shot in the dark.
autism is a lack of self expression. many have it. but only some are bounded by it.
Loaded I’m pretty certain you have a sub 90 IQ. What the fuck are you doing here?
projecting much? youre just mad youre autistic. its okay autism can be cured with a little discipline and for the right amount i can provide it.
it will be as if i was your caretaker. it wont be that bad. i promise pill i promise.
You have autism our opinion is now invalid to me.
Loaded your social judgements are so bad I almost think you have autism but I’m quite intuitive on these things owing to my neurological state and I can see you don’t have autism, you’re actually just a dumb guy.
Arguing with pill is like arguing with people who think they’re psychic. If you win the debate they just say “well you’re wrong because you don’t have my psychic powers”
Loaded is not dumb or autistic. He just has no impulse control, so just says whatever feels good in the moment, even if it sounds dumb in retrospect.
I appreciate that Pumpkin I really do. :).
like you said no impulse control though:
No Im right. Hes dumb.
oprah think she psychic.
mug thinks he is a psychologist a doctor a holy man and above all else the N-word.
OMG!
The chart is so accurate!
yeah it is but mug of pee probably projects and thinks anime thought of it on the toilet or something. where do you think you are lorenzo? what about people who werent mentioned entirely in the chart?
i have great social intuition due to being a pure instinct thinker but i do not have nuanced thinking abilities because of it. kind of a binary thinker in that aspect.
who are some good examples of pure instinct thinkers irl? and am i more of a caretaker or clearsighted thinker as i think they apply to me pretty well because they dictate what type of pure instinct thinker i can become.
Maybe Trump
yeah a lot of close people in my life have compared me to trump in many ways. he is definitely somewhat of a human calculator+pure instinct thinker that makes him so dangerous to others.
Its like putting me and Bruno together you would have a super human pretty much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocatastasis
Acts 3:21 speaks of apocatastasis of all things, and although this passage is usually not understood to teach universal salvation,[2] the word apocatastasis is typically used to refer to the belief that everyone – including the damned in hell and the devil – will ultimately be saved.
MoP I believe that too. I hope all entities regardless of free will or not will be saved and experience salvation in all its glories.
“I think in multiple ways at once and new stuff is coming into my mind all the time.”
Do you take lithium for that?
Spoken like a true fascinator wow.
dude dont talk to anime like that or i will smack you out bro. trust.
I do take lithium.
Pill is queer in that he thinks all things owe him respect. what an entitled cunt. his IQ is maximum 80 and he has severe autism.
illuminaticatblog’s commenter graph inspires me to chart the estimated IQs of Pumpkin Person’s commenters.
The following entries have at least enough backing to be reasonable estimates, insofar as my memory serves, which is really not that far, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten some relevant information I’ve read here. I’ve avoided entries which are based only on my intuitive judgment, however accurate it may be. Everyone is welcome to contribute data or speculations about themselves or others.
“Nevanlinna did nothing wrong” or whatever name he used, I don’t recall: 165
Steven Stutts: 160
Teffec P: 160
Ganzir: 150
Billy: 140
pumpkinperson: 135
illuminaticatblog: 120
Nevanlinna was a finnish nazi and mathematician.
finalnd idk but unlike the US, german academics tend to be much more conservative and nationalistic than germans as a whole. or so i have read.
so one of my p-chem profs was italian american but he was married to a jew…he told the class that johannes stark, nobel laureate, was a horrible nazi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Stark
Why so high for Nevanlinna did nothing wrong? Not disputing that, just never saw his comments.
I know some of his test scores
Creative and interesting, thanks and well done Anime.
I have 1 question and 1 remark.
1) are linear thinkers less powerful than lateral thinkers necessarily or not ? Because if it were the case, I would change your hierarchy. An example is Teffec who should be on the top rank. Maybe there could be a third dimension for power.
2) I like the « human calculator » tag . But purely autistic sounds more like someone not interested by human feelings wich is not me (captain data versus Spock). For example, in Pumpkin two social tests, I had a perfect score on the first one and a not to bad score on the second one (Pumpkin didn’t give the scoring but I would say I was +1.3 Sd or a 120 social IQ wich is not so bad for where I come from). Up to quite pretty old , I could have cut a dog or a cat with no feelings (just by curiosity). But I started watching videos about pets and their condition, and now , the only idea to cause them any harm horrifies me. I have taken two cats from my local shelter. It helps me build feelings and it works.
“For example, in Pumpkin two social tests, I had a perfect score on the first one and a not to bad score on the second one ”
LOL that just about sums up puppys social tests as measures of social intelligence.
The first test wasn’t mine. It was created by autism experts. The second test was mine, but hasn’t been normed yet so I don’t know how well Bruno did. Only people who’ve taken it are Bruno, Ganzir & Cat.
Linear thinking is better than lateral thinking if i understand it correctly. lateral thinkers rely on associating things to other things before they can get a grasp on what that initial idea was. linear thinkers can directly go off of pure thought and do not need associative thinking but only a confidence in their beliefs.
SO let me guess, Anime and Ganzir also aced your social intelligence test thus proving the test is doesn’t test social intelligence.
There’s no way of knowing how well they did until I norm the test on a representative sample of the general population.
Loaded that is possible but doesn’t dit with the commenters allocation.
Lateral thinking can mean creative unconventional thinking also but I don’t think it’s the meaning here.
But in Kittys presentation – and given his interest in computer and neurone network metaphors – it could be rather be similar to parallel computing or thinking « holding several ideas and processes at the same time in one’s head » – and be a proxy of reasoning leverage.
Everyone sees in the chart what he wants to 😊
i see the point youre making and agree. its not the way i interpreted it but it makes more sense from what animes intentions were however i dont think that would be an appropriately true measure of what lateral and linear thinking are tbh.
have you red pual cooijams before? you (bruno) and him seem to be similar in some ways he has aspergers and that affects his overall thinking style. he is a claimant of being the most honest person ever. he doesnt seem grandiose but you two have a similar objectivity that may be used for grandiose purposes if you let it. 😉
https://paulcooijmans.com/ethics/short.html
browse through his website here is a link to one of his articles on associative horizon or as i think of it “lateral thinking”:
https://paulcooijmans.com/genius/associative_horizon.html
When I wrote to Cooijmans about aphantasia he thought people having imagined sensed was an illusion on their part .
When I tried to engage with him – in a very short sentence – he stated that was undecidable. After two email exchanges the conversation stopped. I had the intention to buy him some tests out of « pitty » but his dryness put me off. I don’t feel I have much in common with that kind of people. True I learn hard sciences stuff and obscure skills for fun but I love trying to understand persons lives and motives. This guy and me are in different planets.
Besides each time I discovered something was socially valuable and I wanted it, I more or less got it …
Thats a really cool story I would say that people like Cooijmans have a lot of ego and its due to overstating how important the obvious is to them. because they do not understand obvious things as easily but understand complex things well they feel immense happiness when the obvious becomes attainable for them or obvious.
this is different from when someone who does not have any problem understanding simple social situations decides to interact with someone they usually have a lack of emotionality to solving complex problems because there is a natural aversion to it. there is no motivation. you and cooijmans are human calculators imo because you choose to break things down and then take their simplest forms and absorb all of it for contextual purposes.
its a very powerful way of thinking and with someone who enjoys doing it can bring tremendous sense of accomplishment. i think a pure instinct thinker would ever have that variety of thought ever and be able to feel good about it as well.
bruno a human calculator can best be described in my mind as someone who relies heavily on finding answers before doing something with a “pure instinct” thinker as myself being the complete opposite. a “pure instinct thinker” will make decisions on a whim while a human calculator critically evaluates a situation breaking everything down to its rudimentary levels.
for example a human calculator will look at all possibilities before making a decision like boarding what train at what time will depend on how they can make a logical decision on the matter with as much information in tow. its close to an analytical thinker like Pumpkin but is more precise and calculating hence the term. a pure instinct thinker will board a train based on intuition and what feels right.
this chart is basically about how people make decisions. for the best advice i can give you on capitalizing on situations are to think with as much speed as possible and evaluate all characteristics of everything as much as you can!
People with autism tend to have extreme risk aversion. I imagine Bruno has it as well whereas you would be the opposite.
stop trying and follow me LOADED. or is this islamic doctrine already?
the roman church and all other churches have this inconsistency. adam and eve sinned and humanity fell…but God offers humanity redemption via the second adam, christ. BUT the fallen angels’ sin is irrevocable, so says the roman catechism.
“the problem of evil” is solved if one grants the existence of supernatural creatures with free will, like the devil.
so the claim of atheists like stephen fry that no human sin can explain children with bone cancer…is explained by the free will of…
the devil.
to have free will is to have some power over creation. to have no power over creation is to have no free will.
the point is, even the devil must be saved.
reconciled to God.
this is the most extreme form of universalism.
my dog begs me to go outside. “you just pee-ed. you don’t have to go out. it’s now 25 degrees hotter than it’s ever been in ireland.”
“no master. i must go outside.”
so i let him out.
instantaneous irish setter combustion.
you know zevon’s dad was a book maker for mickey cohen says wiki. like my mom’s dad for marcello.
Mug my brother. I have nothing but love for you. trust.
linear/lateral thinking is more of a direction than parrel serial. lateral thinkers change direction quicker. train of thought goes every which way. linear stays in one direction.
Lateral thinking usually means creative out of the box thinking. Comics excell at lateral thinking. It’s the most human & g loaded ability of all so I’m surprised you’re associating it with human calculators
human calculators think of every possibility there is the purest definition of lateral thinking there is Pumpkin.
Human calculators are lexical lateralists. They take lexical structures and project them in multiple directions. Like how 3D is an illusion in video games. computers calculate super fast in a linear fashion but the language produces a rich virtual world. lateral is simply parallel lines of code.
I am a newtype. we are impressionistic lateralists. we gain insight into nonlexical patterns. and we do so in a parallel fashion. intuition is closest to this.
Loaded is linear impressionistic. whereas I see multiple nonlexical paterns at once. he sees patterns one at a time in rapid succession. he is much faster but not as wide.
linear lexicalists like the philosopher are deep into the language. since language is linear, to begin with, they, unlike human calculators stew in it rather than shallowly process it. They are highly into semantics. They focus on intuitive lexical structures.
PP, what’s new on WAIS V.? This is the time already . They promised to complete all the work with samples a year ago (if I recall it right). Obviously , the pandemic works against it, but…
Yes, by the time they release it the norms will already be outdated. They probably fear people wont buy it because they want to test people over zoom now & can’t do that with some of the Wechsler subtests.
Pumpkin if you dont start posting our comments in a timely manner I will sell the blog for you lol.
wow, everything is even worst than I thought.
human calculators are very good at g-loaded fields. they derive knowledge from circumstances using deductive thought and then amplify it by using the knowledge to put into various situations.
think of it like a simulator. they are laterally thinking because all possibilities become known to them.
Was watching the football and I couldn’t believe it but most of the ads had only black people in it. For clarity, 1% of the UK pop is black. I know its not a mystery. It seems liberal arts grads in advertising have taken the US’ 5000 years a slave story kindly to their hearts and imported it but its ridiculous in the way steve sailer likes to point out. Like some sort of twilight zone alternative reality.
It would be interesting surveying whether high IQ liberal arts subjects like classics and philosophy had more conservative students than the rest of the lib arts. I think youre a lot more likely to know what Culture of Critique is if youre smarter all things being equal but it also takes a very high degree of openness to new ideas and thoughts. I remember my first reaction to reading Steve Sailer was: This man is a racist.
Hhahaha.
One of the things the Third Way movement of the left always kept saying was that we don’t need to tax the rich or corporations, we need to lift the poor up through education and everyone will be happy….Newsflash: Most education is brainwashing and even the parts that aren’t are forgotten pretty quickly by non autistic people. Can anyone remember what they learned in science in high school now? I can barely remember the accounting classes I took or most of the French etc.
Education is a perishable good, it has not as much heft for social mobility in terms of content unless youre doing something really technical [redacted by pp, 2021-06-28] programming or something. Its used mostly an IQ test sorting system in most western countries but nobody is allowed to say it.
I also suspect that most of the stuff people learn in STEM subjects is a waste of time as well. Most of it seems theoretical and will never actually be used in a workplace or research study.
The elites are loathe to simply just IQ test people and sort them like this. They want to go through the pretence that people have an equal chance to also ‘work hard’ and learn useless info.
People that work hard an learn useless info are very common in east asia. The culture there is to learn as much useless info as possible. Rather than waste so much time and effort why don’t the communists just IQ test people? Its hilarious and sad.
These people physically then become ugly and nerdy looking and have absolutely no idea how the real world works.
most modern people are very opportunistic in that they will look to capitalize on any and every situation they can. there is no delay in gratification for these people. because of that we can expect to see more psychopathy and lack of pro-sociality in modern social environments.
people are ruthless and cutthroat and will not know how to deal with people they dont like. because of this they will struggle to get along with others and have trouble making meaningful relationships as well. never fully depend on a first impression but nowadays thats the only ting that matters.
But there are problems with just IQ testing people and putting them into occupations like that movie with Uma Thurman. Many people with high IQs have mental problems or the horrible spectre of autism hanging over them which limits them greatly. There’s also the problem that some types of intelligence can’t be tested yet. For example, if we IQ tested Donald Trump its likely he would be sorted into some sort of working class job and not ‘president of the united states’.
I think the people that rule western and east asian society must have sat down at some stage respectively and thought these thoughts like I have: Why not just IQ test people? Why make people learn frivolous and copious amounts of perishable info? There must be a reason for it. I can’t figure it out. Sad!
The rest of the world basically tries to copy the western education model – primary, secondary and tertiary education. Lots of information and about a 5% chance a student is going to need or remember most of it and they think this is what is going to make them rich like the west.
its not the education systems fault as much as the parents. they want you to go into something they thought they could do with their lives but wouldnt do otherwise they wouldve done it right?
parents are the main factor in what a child will end up like. take a smart kid who is h good at things and put him into a bad parental environment and he or she will suffer tremendously.
“There is no gene for the human spirit.” Tailoring everyone’s life path sounds efficient and practical, but it would strip us of our individuality and actually cap achievement, as many great innovations have come from the unusual backgrounds of “outsiders.” Volition is a special endowment that provides us life experience and makes us human. We have to take the bad with the good. Charting people’s destinies is partially why Asia hasn’t been able to excel like the West. Fuck that ant colony shit.
You sound delusional. Go back on your meds like good old Pill.
the process of giving never ends for me. people ask for more from me than they could ever give themselves. i am being targeted because i have virtues others dont. its a sad reality but it comes as the truth.
Is the west rich because its people are educated or because its people have high IQs is basically what Im asking.
If it is the latter why is east asia so much poorer than the West?
My personal opinion is that the west is richer than the east because its people are more {. Not more intelligent or hard working.
The wests people are more dynamic.
the west prioritizes the individual at the consequence of society other way around for east asia is my understanding.
i am held to a higher standard of morality and good than other people. most ive come across in life do not hold themselves have a low standard for themselves in all aspects of life.
sure im dumb relative to others but it depends on who the others are. almost all will place themselves way below others in almost every aspect of self-criticism and evaluation so their opinions should automatically become invalid.
s korea, taiwan, and japan are all rich countries pill. and they’re not silly countries like singapore or hong kong.
They’re upper middle income, with the exception of Japan which is about as rich as the UK. The wages of their workers are about 20-30% lower than a westerners even though they work nearly 50% longer hours and supposedly have higher IQs.
East asians and americans work 50% and 20% harder than europeans respectively If you adjust GDP per person at PPP for hours worked europeans have the highest standards of living relative to the amount of effort they put into economic activity.
Why? Its not fucking education and hard work anyway.
The answer is redistribution.
This is why I’m a socialist.
yeah. it’s pretty obvious that somalia and guatemala aren’t rich countries despite their much pure-er capitalism. but the idea that one can be chased down by thugs in uniform because he doesn’t write the government a check is kind of gross, expecially in a multi-ethnic fake country like the US.
there’s always this tension between optimizing various social statistics and leaving people alone. like i’m pissed off when i get a notice that i must serve on a jury.
but the idea that the only reason why there are poor people is because rich people are stealing from them, aka marxism, social and economic justice, is totally gay.
The way for east asians to become richer now is actually to become more communist if what I’m theorising it correct. Thats called IRON-EE!
Perk of communism: when it actually concentrates resources, stifles gumption, and leads to carnage, you can say it wasn’t “real communism”
this reminds me of the time people would say certain things werent a real democracy or a real anything for that matter.
Communism is a total failure because of the way it tends to just recreate an even crueller oligarchy like Orwell presciently pointed out in his short story. But I mean communism in terms of national spirit and redistribution and scaring the hell out of the elites to make them nicer to people. If the Russian revolution never happened most of Europe would probably never have adopted welfare states in their entirety.
When I think about economics I always think about alternative ways of arranging resources like what our east asian colleagues have done. 90% of western economics literature says the west is rich because….and then they just describe everything that happened over the past 100 years even though some of it is obviously bad for economic development e.g. rebuilding from WW2 was a great thing for the economy LOL. They’re muppets. They have no idea why white people are rich.
academic economics is just propaganda and a physics/math envy cargo cult. it’s absurd. my cousin the fluid dynmaics guy always bitched about how the nobel in economics was such a joke.
but pill is right. economics never considers that the people in a country make the biggest difference, the two koreas being the most glaring counterexample.
krugman actually said something like, “it’s a mystery why mexico is still a shithole. economic theory says…”
Did my comment not go though PP? the one with the genetic IQ prediction.
Anyway there is a final theory thats very interesting and that is HBD chick’s theory or Peter Frost’s one where basically they say the West is richer than the rest because the people in the West of the hajnal line are nicer. There are other theories that support this by saying western women are the most beautiful because they are the nicest.
Some theorize it has less to do with the people than the geography:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2018/02/11/why-the-west-rules-for-now/
Pill is right I am prone to risk and its behavioral outputs. Doesnt mean im a bad person just means i like to do what others wont.
or with religion.
christianity makes people nicer. even though the west (formerly “chistendom”) is no longer christian religiously, most of it is still christian in terms of its moral ideals. how many european countries still have a cross on their flags?
Christian nations are not nicer. throughout history they have burned many at the stake and inherently defied science. the protestants are heretical and the catholics are self-absorbed.
it says my iq is average but look at the graph and how it reads lower IQs in both directions. middle of bell curve has the highest genetic potential i guess.
if you have a pure instinctual thinking style and a photographic memory like me you dont need a high IQ. srs.
Dont bite the hand that feeds you Pill.
i agree with averroes that religion is basically proto-philosophy. it is something for ordinary people who don’t have the time or ability to philosophize and for extra-ordinary people to attempt to explain in philosophical terms. “God speaks in the language of men.” so the dogmas of the church are NOT mere statements of fact like those of science. they are “through a glass darkly”, a fumbling around a dark room looking for the light switch.
this is what makes christianity so bizarre compared to other religions. this is why “theology” is really only a christian thing, because…
christianity doesn’t make any sense. and it never has.
so you basically have to have professors trying to explain it.
but only trying.
of course this is a reason to believe it. as tertullian said:
