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The race IQ debate is more or less settled

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Genetics play a role in the 15 point black-white IQ gap in the US. Chances are, they explain almost all of it at this stage, while the larger 30 point gap between blacks in Africa compared to whites in Europe/USA likely still has a significant environmental component (probably 20 points to genetics, 10 points to environment).

Reasons:

1. Enormous environmental difference required to entirely explain the IQ gap given high heritability of IQ
2. Transracial adoption studies
3. Blacks of high incomes scoring lower than whites of low incomes
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The infinitist's prayer

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Infinite sets are well defined
And even if they're not, it's an intuitively clear concept
And even if it's not, we have the axiomatic framework of ZFC that tells us what we need to know about sets,
And even if it doesn't, it's only in niche pure set theoretic problems where ambiguity arises,
And even if it arises in other areas like algebra, in a few hundred years the logicians will come up with the correct missing axioms to settle the problems,
And even if they don't, mathematics is just a meaningless formula manipulation game,
And even if some finite mathematical concepts seem meaningful, they're just as undefined and vague as infinite sets,
And even if they're not and can be clearly defined, it's not possible to base mathematics on these simple concepts,
And even if it is, the mathematics based on them is too limited and simple to be interesting,
And even if it's not, you would have to give up on centuries worth of beautiful mathematics,
And even if you can reinterpret them in a new finite light, it's just not worth all the trouble
Amen
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Which country will take over as the global leader in STEM now that America has given up?
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Is there such a thing as dick IQ? Are some men better at thinking with their dicks than other men, or are all dicks equally stupid?
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So what do you think of the notion that the mind/consciousness transcends a purely physicalist framework? What do you think of the classical arguments of for the immateriality of the mind/soul? (I could list some if you like.)
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nolo

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if 1 = 0 and 0 = x[mind control, AI, religion, ancient techology, lies, science, biology, drugs,math, languages, big big big artwork, travelling]
x = ????

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What do you think is the most interesting application of the golden ratio or ??

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is this mathematically possible?