Are “Woke” Ideas Secretly Eugenic? with Ed Dutton
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In this episode, Professor Edward Dutton talks about his research on the rise and fall of civilizations and a theory he has about the nature of intelligence and how it relates to the decline of civilizations. He also discusses an ancient theory that suggests that intelligence is the motor of the fall of civilization.
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if you are able to think for yourself and you look at the data and you just say what that data says
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you will be isolated from mainstream society and then people like us find each other because and
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so in that way they are hopefully sowing the seeds of their own downfall so long as they're not
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rounding up like Machiavelli would everyone who dissents and who says the true thing in the room
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of liars so that they can then have them i think i think i think it may come to that point but i
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think we will have we will have escaped to our various neo-byzantiums by the time they simply
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go through the streets with a machine gun kill people that express any logical reasonable ideas
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but would you like to know more hello everyone today we are joined again we're very excited
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by the jolly heretic aka edward dutton aka professor dutton you can find his podcast or youtube channel
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the jolly heretic he also authored the native classroom a sort of the mathematician's lament
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of science education which is available on amazon but today we're going to talk about something a
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little different some research that he recently did as well as an ancient theory he has so let's
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start with the research that i want to start with is the rome study talk a bit about what was found in
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this study because i think it was really cool and that it seemed to confirm a theory that a lot of us
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have been throwing around and sort of confirm it yeah so basically basically the i the i the theory is
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that what causes the rise and fall of civilizations and the theory that i've been working on for a
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long time well loads of people have worked on it but i've quite associated with it in a book
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called adult wit's end why we're becoming less intelligent and what it means for the future of
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michael woodley venee is its intelligence intelligence is the central thing if you're under
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harsh darwinian conditions and the intelligence is not particularly high there is strong selection
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pressure for intelligence because intelligence gives you the competitive edge and allows you to
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survive and we showed that across time based on proxy measures such as skull size such as capital
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major innovation such as literacy even though sounds of living didn't change much such as numeracy such
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as interest rates which are a marker of time preference and a number of other measures that
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intelligence seemed to be going up and indeed the richer 50 percent of the population in england
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had based on parish records double the complete fertility of the poor 50 percent of the population
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and the intelligence is associated robustly with wealth and so this indicates intelligence is going
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up and then you get the breakthroughs of the industrial revolution of course and then you start to get a
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situation where this direct inspection pressure is reduced so whereas what's been happening is every
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generation the bottom of society have been dying out and the top of the society have been increasing
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in size and and moving down to fill the the places vacated by those at the bottom who have died
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off then that process kind of stops because with the innovations of medicine and better housing and
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all a Dutch revolution Darwinian selection pressure is weakened and then you find this process where it's
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for some reason we don't quite know why but I've speculated on why in my book it goes into reverse you
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start to see a negative correlation between intelligence and how many children you have and we showed we show
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evidence of this based on capital major innovation based on IQ scores based on reaction times getting
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longer based on color discrimination getting worse based on new and based on simply genes that are
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associated alleles that are essentially associated with high intelligence beginning becoming less and
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less and less within the population so and what that eventually leads to of course is the society
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becomes stupider and stupider and stupider and it can't sustain things it used to be able to sustain
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but also it degenerates into war it splits up it becomes impulsive and whatever and essentially the
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civilization collapses at worst or at best it retreats you get a kind of Byzantium effect where
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clever people that are still there kind of club together and keep it going in some smaller form as it as
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it reduces in size and so on so intelligence becomes the motor of the rise and fall of civilization
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so what we the theory is that that could be the case with Rome and there was some evidence for that
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because uh they talk about in the time of Augustus they noticed that the upper class men are not
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having many children they talk about it and they note the population is going down and they know that
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Augustus brings in a tax on childlessness from the upper class men and they pay the tax and all this
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sort of thing is going on and so we thought we can test it with ancient genomes so what you have is
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these samples it's true that they are small samples but the statistical significance was maintained and all
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all that they were representative and are you sure are we find that at the beginning of the period of Rome
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you know the the prevalence of these alleles is not that high it goes up it reaches a peak in in the
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republican period and so this is a highly intelligent period and then Rome starts to generate into chaos
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Rome of course it has doesn't have an industrial revolution but it does become very rich it has the grain
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laws the dole or whatever it reduces it creates its own zoo like we do reduces selection pressure what do you
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see the prevalence of the alleles associated with talent starts to go down and and this goes down
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in parallel basically with the collapse of Rome so it it does fit the data now the theory the counter
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argument sorry is that there is a change in the composition of the people living in Rome so that
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you have more genes more bodies that are from outside Rome itself that are from other parts of Italy or
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other than that it's a radium so that's a compound but but otherwise it does kind of it is what we would
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predict yeah and you can tell me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember in this study as a point of
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clarification they're not looking at IQ they're looking at the polygenic risk scores that today would be
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associated with educational attainment so with high polygenic risk scores so through high very high
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educational attainment which is a very good proxy for IQ yeah no no it's a good proxy but I think a lot
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of people might be like well IQ whatever it's like look they're not even looking at that they're
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looking at like functionally like the types of people who in our society would get PhDs just
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started to disappear from the society and and this is fascinating because this theory existed prior to
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to you know looking at these historic bodies and it aligns with something that we've noted in some of
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our work that if you look at renaissances in a region they typically last for no longer than three
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generations and they almost never bloom twice within the same population so if you whether it's
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the you know the scottish enlightenment or the renaissance in italy or you know the american
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renaissance in the original 13 colonies or you you rarely will see a renaissance lasting longer than
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three generations are happening twice because renaissances seem to be genetically exhaustive of
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whatever is their precursor and this also aligns with some of the theories I've seen of why you saw
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civilization bloom in places that previously were more barbarian where when a place was particularly
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barbarian during a previous phase of large large civilization that they were likely to become the
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nexus of the next civilization and yeah sorry I mean I think that's a very good point so you've got a
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situation where civilization will move because it will start in a place where there is an optimum
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relationship between the genetics and the environment and it will which will which will allow
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the the the the civilization to spread and and whatever and grow and it will perhaps then move let's say
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further north to a place where the environmental selection pressures are harsher which means that in
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in sort of theory there's let's say harsher more selection for something like intelligence or there could be
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there could be if let's say something like farming went there yeah so in the absence of farming that
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the farming is a selection event farming selections for intelligence and so if you if you if you take
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farming from the mediterranean uh or whatever so from the nile up to where to the north then the
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selection pressures are very it will become very harsh for them a lot of them will be wiped out and
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so then you'd expect the center of civilization to move north because the suddenly is harsher selections
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for intelligence further north and it would carry on like yeah well i'm arguing more that like barbarism
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is is the precursor of of civilization or intelligence because keep in mind that rome
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wasn't replaced by you know northern european civilization it was replaced by islamic civilization
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and and that came out of a region of extreme barbarism and then if you look at the roman empire
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the the next places of large civilization were like the german territories and the english territories
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which were two of the most that like the least tamed during the roman empire well hold on so you don't
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really mean barbarism which is really just being foreign or different you mean like harsh living
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right harsh living it would it that's an interesting possibility it would it would make it would make
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sense that they're under they're under harsher conditions and because they're under harsher conditions
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they're sort of more up against it so there's less possibility to experiment there's less excess
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and so they can't innovate these kinds of things themselves but once they get hold of the rubric
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of the innovation then because their harsh conditions are more selective for intelligence
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let's say then they can take it and they can run with it and they can do fantastically well
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so the kind of now the the the possible problem with that and my colleague on that paper the rome paper
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is looking at this at the moment is that there's some evidence that the really really important thing
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is farming that's that's really it's crucial and and and once you get farming it massively elevates
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iq and because it creates this competition where anyone that doesn't take up farming is wiped out
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and it's much more cognitively demanding to pursue farming than to pursue hunter gathering or so is it
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farming or is it technology adoption because farming is a he's arguing well if that it's arguing that form
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of technology now i don't know if he's right but that's what he's suggesting so he's arguing that
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that possibly based on apologetic scores people the reason why agriculture was developed in iraq was
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because at that time they were just the most intelligent people and and and and so it might
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it might not that i fat theory is the one i used to hold it might not be right we'll see
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interesting yeah it'd be interesting to see yeah i was just thinking in my head okay so the the times
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when i'm thinking when a big civilization is like when i was like okay civilization died civilization
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rose you had a greek civilization which rose after the bronze age as a result of egyptian civilization
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and and the bronze age civilizations leaving the scene and we know that that region has recently
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undergone a near total ethnic replacement that's always like the erasure of so there was really heavy
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conflict in that region we know that islamic civilization came out of a really really high
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conflict region rome pre-roman history was really high conflict but did have farming none of the
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other ones i knew had a lot of farming i did ancient athens i'm thinking pre pre like bronze age
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collapse see people time they might have had agriculture small scale at the very least scale
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i mean i think i think that your theory that you're propounding is what i myself propounded in various
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things i've written it may well be right but i'm just i'm just wondering at the moment i will wait to
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see my colleagues research on this let's hear your other theory no i also want to hold on there's one
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question i want to ask and this is to both of you and this is just because my understanding of this
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period of history especially when it comes to falling birth rates is imperfect obviously what
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people give as excuses for not having kids is different from why they're not actually having kids
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but was there some taxation or inheritance policy or thing other than just hedonism which is always the
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answer people give when society stopped you know producing as many kids that would explain why
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especially upper class men were not having as many kids at that time the opposite i mean they were
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they were trying to encourage upper class men to have more kids right but why weren't why weren't they
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despite encouragement i we don't really know my theory which i've expounded in various places is that
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is that basically well the evidence is that mortality salium and threat of mortality and death that's what
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makes you want to have kids that's our evolutionary match so if you take that away then it becomes a
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selection event for the just the genetics of pronatalism and and and that is what is taken away to some
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extent anyway okay there was high mortality in rome compared to now but that is what is particularly
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among the upper class that is what is taken away and so they just stop having they don't the the instinct
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doesn't hit in and i think that's what we're seeing now people that are more intelligent are
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more environmentally sensitive there's a number of lines of evidence for that and so the more
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sensitive environment if they're in an evolutionary mismatch they're just less instinctive and so they
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just don't have kids well and we also need to think about what what does hedonism mean like what
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does a society have to look like for it to estole hedonism as a virtue and to not severely punish
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members from engaging in hedonism cultural groups that didn't punish hedonism historically are typically
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out competed really quickly because it's really bad for the elites in your society to be overly
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hedonistic unless you massively are out competing your neighbors and this is why if you look at the
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periods right before various civilizational collapses whether it's the athenian civilization the roman
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civilization or the muslim civilization all of them had extreme hedonism particularly sexual hedonism
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right before their collapse started and you can read a lot about this i think people would be
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surprised and the reason why i always include the muslim civilization one because i think a lot of
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people ignore that in their data sets but it gives you an additional data set in an area where we
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already don't have that many data sets yeah and passion passion glove in his book the fate of empires
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looked into the into the islamic situation of course he was amazed by the parallels between
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8th century islam let's say and what was going on in rome 800 years earlier yeah it was very aligned
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um yeah and i something i also want to compliment ed dutton on saying here because this is not the way
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the opponents of our think is he had a theory he was committed to the theory he had written on the
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theory he had somebody else agree with a theory and he said well i'm actually aware of some counter
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evidence that's currently being developed and so i want to see if it disconfirmed my presumptions
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yeah this is a really important in the way that people should think and engage with ideas and is
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not often seen in our society right now and i think it needs to be specifically called out it's a good
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thing to say when somebody says i might be disproven here's somebody who's working on this
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but let's now go to your next theory the new one you're working on now yes very fun so i'm known for
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a theory of spiteful mutants which was can you talk a bit about spiteful mutants first if there is a
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collapse in harsh darwinian selection pressure then you get a build-up of mutation the mutation will
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relate of course to the body it will make people physically less healthy but it will also make people
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mentally less healthy and people that are mental and those things are play atripically related
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and so if people are mentally less healthy then they will tend to have adaptation they will tend to
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have basically ways of thinking for genetic reasons that are unhealthy uh that are maladaptive as opposed
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to adaptive so what have we been selecting for across time we've been selecting for intelligence
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we've been selecting for uh pro-social personality we've been selecting for uh obviously wanting to
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have children natalism's basic thing uh we've got religiosity because religiosity seems to take that
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which is adaptive and make it the will of god we've been groups which we've been selecting for
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ethnocentrism positive negative ethnocentrism obedience to authority all these kinds of group oriented
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things we've been selecting for all this whole bundle of stuff that is all bundled together and
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tends to manifest in certain kinds of religious group and so you would expect a deviation from
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that and that deviation would be associated with mutational load and you would get these these
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mutants they'd be identifiable by sites to some extent because of the relationship between what you
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look like and mutational load who would just have maladaptive ideas because we're a highly pro-social
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species and we're meant to be surrounded by genetically healthy people we would be influenced by them
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and so therefore they would spread maladaptive ideas around the society these would be ideas
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like andrea dawkin or whatever you know all sex obvious spiteful mutants ugly disgusting woman
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um all all sex is rape and and and you know that basically we should just allow humanity to die out
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so that was the idea you have these these spiteful mutants and if they are reasonably intelligent and
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they reach the middle class then they will be able to push society in a maladaptive direction
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and and just destroy it basically and you know lead lead to its end so they're spiteful they're bad for
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society and then more recently myself and a colleague have been think have been revising this idea and
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thinking actually no like what what what actually perhaps they're altruistic i mean what are they doing
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they are going to bring about a people who are basically very religious very conservative
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very pro-natalist very genetically healthy very able to if like some kind of massive natural disaster
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happens like happened with the late bronze age collapse very able to survive that like if they
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weren't there potentially we'd just get unhealthier and unhealthier and unhealthier and when inevitably
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there's a big natural disaster then just everybody would die out
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are you saying they're like a mouse trap like catching so it's it's very interesting i i'll
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give my thoughts on this because i just summarize what i'm so so the idea what they are doing what
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they are doing what woke is doing is it is it has taken over the culture of society and it is pushing
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society in a matter it is whereas you are used to being pushed along the adaptive roadmap of life which
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says you think life has meaning which says that you should believe in god which says that you should have
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children which says that you should eventually be men and women should be women whatever all of all of
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the which says that you should live in relatively monocultural society everything all of this is
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utterly subverted all of this is turned on its head instead you are pushed along a maladaptive roadmap
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of life where you are told you shouldn't have children you should mutilate your body you should be gay
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you you should you should welcome the destruction of your society you should everything bad so who
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therefore people don't have children who is resistant to this onslaught which says don't
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have children or which pushes you towards not having children which you know feminism or whatever which
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pushes you towards not having children it makes it more difficult or fat acceptance pushes you who is
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resistant to this it's going to be people that for genetic reasons are going to be highly
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ethnocentric conservative religious and those all correlate with being healthy so basically it's a selection
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event and the woke people are altruistic they are bringing they are they are eugenicists they are
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bringing about the removal of all but the most genetically healthy and the most basically conservative and
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right-wing that's what they're that's what they're bringing about and so from the perspective of those
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that are right-wing one could kind of argue that they're altruistic aren't they i mean they're a good
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thing they're a group level adaptation and the group that doesn't have it could be in trouble and
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could and could die out what they're also doing is they're bringing down civilization and if they're
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bringing down civilization back to harsher darwinian conditions then of course we need to be able to
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survive these harsher darwinian conditions but they're also ensuring that there are going to be
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people that will survive these conditions because they're discouraging those that wouldn't survive it
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from breeding so and then you get group selection and their group is the strong group so they're
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purging their own group of the unhealthy that's what wokeness could be argued we do well i so i want
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to dig into this because this is really cool and it goes on some of the things that we've talked about
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where uh wokus you know through any avenue that they preach their you know memetic sterilization
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they are primarily sterilizing people who are genetically susceptible and open to these progressive ideas
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now i i actually think that it is potentially scary how good they are at this from a genetic level
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like they're doing a very good job of removing pro-sociality from the human species which which
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you know it isn't all good but it is definitely a real phenomenon that we are really seeing
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yeah i'm hearing like drawing out mental illness like a sponge okay drawing out a bunch of other
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problems but then also like drawing out openness to outside ideas i mean we like who's being killed
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who do fat activists kill you know they kill you know people who are susceptible to these ideas
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who do uh pro-abortion advocates kill they they are aborting progressive fetuses who are you know who
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when when people are open to sexual practices that lead to lower fertility rates you know who is being
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attracted by this it is typically people who are more susceptible to these ideas the downside is of all
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of this so of the first series i don't know if the mutants would know that they were mutants or know to be
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spiteful like there would be no genetic um real reward for them to do this i i think the second
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theory is closer to the truth and that it definitely is having this effect on populations
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unfortunately they suppress fertility particularly in the midwit population that is susceptible to their
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ideas they don't do a good job of suppressing fertility in the idiots or in the severe upper class
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and i think that this could lead to speciation yeah yeah yeah indeed so i well i think what it no
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what i know i just let's put it a different way i'm not sure about that because i think that what
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you what you have with the the the low intelligent people what what the woke are doing as well as
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bringing down civilization and those those that have you know it's the south africacization of the west
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basically and those those that have low iq who yeah you're right in on a certain level they're not
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suppressing their fertility but those people are genetically very unhealthy and are increasingly
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completely reliant on complex systems the national health service or whatever in in order to survive
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those people are more morbid so so when when civilization starts to decline and there's there's
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no bringing about remember they're bringing that about by massive furballed immigration by by by encouraging
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the midwits not to breed by by whatever they're bringing that about then these people that have low
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they're just going to die off so so you're you're the the the midwits the midwits the midwits
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which aren't resigned from the gene pool the low iq people are unable to survive and also remember
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that one of the things they're bringing about is uh in in bringing about in selecting for people that
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are more religious and conservative is a much higher level of disgust and this this this has an
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interesting effect because it has the kind of effect that you have in victorian england where they
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talked with a massive uh problem with disease and whatever which is why they were so conservative
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which is that they saw the working classes like vectors of disease that were dangerous and you
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had to keep away from them and i think you're going to get the spread of these kinds of ideas
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increasingly that they're almost another people but we just don't you don't go near them that's just
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no well and and where we would have the biggest disagreement on this is is i would actually argue
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that they are holding off the collapse of our society through immigration policies that bring in
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a large portion of of people who are still genetically healthy and haven't been ravaged as much
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in as as centers of of of long-term urban wealth i think that whenever a place enters like stagnant
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long-term urban wealth you begin to see a pretty big dysgenic effects and that they are keeping
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society like broadly alive this is in america more than europe on the other hand on the other hand
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couldn't you argue that what they're what they're doing is they do this increasingly increasingly is
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creating a growing sense of sort of almost like native a subculture of native identity
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almost whereby whereby with their woke policies if basically if you dissent from their ideas then
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you know you are evil which which inclines people who do dissent from their ideas to increasingly come
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together into into a subgroup and breed with and breed with each other in a way they wouldn't
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previously probably have done or needed to do which therefore increases a sense of separation
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between the the surviving native conservative population and and everybody else so that so
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so they're they're bringing they're bringing about this genetic similarity process but via exclusion
00:24:03.160
via excluding us from their party by excluding us from their social networks that's what that's what
00:24:08.680
they're that's what they're doing that's how you us three best you know so so i think that on that on
00:24:13.980
that level they're helping to create that i mean it's true that the the the i think it's unsustainable
00:24:19.160
ultimately it gets to a point where there is a there is a growing reaction i think against this this
00:24:23.580
this high immigration but when but when that happens if you don't have the high immigration
00:24:27.880
and you don't improve the birth rate then what you ultimately will have is economic collapse
00:24:32.500
so yeah and i should also point out that there's very different types of immigration within different
00:24:37.460
countries and and for different communities when you have what i would call high barrier immigration
00:24:42.460
you're typically going to actually get the best and the brightest from a country
00:24:46.200
and and when you have low barrier immigration or you're getting the the final squeeze like
00:24:50.840
venezuela is a good example here the early venezuelan immigrants would that notice things
00:24:55.260
happening and came when it was you know it's still difficult to come but now you're sort of getting
00:24:59.540
the final squeeze of the the vine of the country and so you're getting lower quality immigrants than
00:25:04.680
you would in the first few waves of immigration but this has as as bad as the effects are within the
00:25:10.100
united states you need to consider what effects we're having on these developing countries
00:25:13.640
when we do siphon off their best and the brightest i mean look at a place like africa and and
00:25:19.500
generations and generations of siphoning off their best and brightest is definitely going to have an
00:25:23.960
effect on these countries if we continue to maintain this as a policy like genetics exist and genetics are
00:25:30.200
real and so we will destroy not just our own country but their country you know you bring them over
00:25:34.920
then you mimetically sterilize them and then you have to bring the next over and and iterationally this is
00:25:41.800
going to have huge genetic effects around the world and people are underestimating how quickly
00:25:47.780
really strong selective pressures like this can have an effect on things like baseline iq in a population
00:25:53.380
they do because they don't understand that the it's not just it's something like schooling it's it's not
00:25:58.120
just okay the iq the population is going down so the the iq of school kids goes down no it what's the
00:26:03.740
iq of the teachers that has environmental effect on the iq of the children what's what what's the what's
00:26:09.720
the iq of the environment that these teachers can create and so similarly you've got to think about the
00:26:14.880
effect that it has at the right tail what if you halve the force of the population that have an iq above 145
00:26:22.220
it doesn't take much to do that then you are you are you are halving the force of the population that are
00:26:27.520
creating an environment that is bringing the rest of the population environmentally to its phenotypic
00:26:32.680
maximum intelligence and and and so they're becoming they can become rapidly stupider and i think we
00:26:38.420
we see that that's what it's the cultural effect that's very important if you think about if you just
00:26:43.500
watch on youtube the quality of programs that were put out documentaries that were put in the 80s
00:26:48.400
the assumption of the intelligence level of the population compared to the nonsense that is that is
00:26:54.200
that is put out now then then that that is a case in point so yeah it's what's it's what's done in
00:27:00.020
the smart fraction that is i think as important as what's going on in the population and i would
00:27:04.320
encourage if people haven't done this because we had to do this when we were doing channel research
00:27:07.420
is so on youtube by most views for different types of search terms or just for channels and you will
00:27:14.360
see that the most views by far are videos that seem to appeal to almost a toddler like intelligence
00:27:20.920
yeah this is i i think a lot of people and this is a big problem with like the effect of altruist
00:27:25.900
community and stuff like that and a lot of people who live like in upper class or middle upper class
00:27:30.800
communities or creative communities and urban centers they just don't interact with average
00:27:35.860
people so they don't know how bad it's gotten and how far down the slippery slope we are already
00:27:42.520
yeah it's like slapstick like imagine like a family of people of different sizes jumping over a tire
00:27:48.320
that's rolling toward them like down a back alleyway like that's what charles murray said that we get this
00:27:54.140
cognitive stratification and you you don't you don't interact i i particularly don't because i
00:27:59.160
spend my time in finland and i and i speak in finnish and i or i speak in english and you think well
00:28:04.360
the fact they can speak english means that's a bit intelligent or i'm speaking in finnish and so
00:28:08.480
you're not getting the nuances of of how low iq some people might be when i go back to england as i
00:28:15.200
have increasingly am as part of my youtube show and whatever i am shocked like i was i was at
00:28:20.240
heathrow airport of terminal three and the guy that was in charge in charge of the security baggage
00:28:26.680
thing right and i was i complained about the surliness of one particular one particular baggage
00:28:32.880
checker and and and the guy said he said what was the word he used he completely mixed up the
00:28:38.160
the meaning of two words he he he mixed up something being he said well he's not entitled he's not
00:28:44.560
entitled to push a bagel on the carousel but he's not entitled to no he's not he's not entitled to
00:28:49.940
push a bagel on the carousel i said what do you mean he's not allowed to no no he's not entitled to
00:28:54.620
i said do you mean he's not obliged to and he's like yeah yeah he's not obliged to he's like right
00:29:01.080
he's mixed up obliged and entitled they're quite different things and that implies that that's a
00:29:06.740
level of stupidity he's learned this this high order word somewhere entitled or obliged he doesn't
00:29:13.100
know what it means but he's trying to sound clever to the customer that's complaining and so he
00:29:17.460
misuses it i was like how can you not know the meaning of the word entitled i think you're still
00:29:22.520
profoundly on oh sorry overestimating intelligence if that's what your complaint is
00:29:29.080
like do what your quote earlier that i thought was better of what number of politicians can't judge
00:29:34.900
like if a coin flips twice what's the probability complained people on twitter have complained to me
00:29:40.520
about this and they've said it is unreasonable they've said oh i didn't get it and i'm and i'm
00:29:45.460
perfectly intelligent no you're not it's it's it's how can you think well if you flip it forever
00:29:51.840
for eternity it's just going to be one in two if you flip it a hundred times it's one in two
00:29:58.940
how can you think if it's once it's one in two that if it's twice in one in two if it's three times
00:30:03.280
it's one in two four times it's one it's mad it's just well that's i mean i i with that particular
00:30:11.480
issue i think a lot of that comes back to your book the naked classroom where we have not we've
00:30:18.340
not been taught how to engage with logic on our own we've been taught to memorize things and i would
00:30:25.080
even argue that the majority of the people who have the right answer for that have the right answer
00:30:30.420
because someone in a classroom told them to go through this exercise and they were wrong and
00:30:35.700
then they were proven wrong and they felt dumb about it and now they'll never forget it again
00:30:39.380
but i think that when it comes to actually like the proportion of the population that has gone
00:30:44.220
through industrial schooling that would answer correctly that question is incredibly low because
00:30:50.060
of the way that we've been taught math because of the way it was 25 it was half among mps and i think
00:30:56.380
i'm right in saying it was 25 that doesn't surprise me at all though because look at how we're taught
00:30:59.960
we're not taught to reason for ourselves to actually think through it we're taught to memorize
00:31:04.460
basic things yeah well and i think that this is really interesting this point here and it comes to
00:31:09.440
something he was saying earlier is is we are to some extent blessed that the woke mobs because if
00:31:15.080
you are able to think for yourself and you look at the data and you just say what that data says
00:31:20.160
you will be isolated from mainstream society from the portions of society that the woke mob controls
00:31:26.980
and then people like us find each other because you know just saying truth removes you sorry removes
00:31:35.520
you from positions of power in our society today and so in that way they are hopefully sowing the
00:31:42.180
seeds of their own downfall so long as they're not rounding up like machiavelli would everyone who
00:31:47.080
dissents and who says the true thing in the room of liars so that they can then have them i think i think
00:31:52.460
i think it may come to that point but i think we will have we will have escaped to our various
00:31:56.420
neo-byzantiums by the time they simply go through the streets with a machine gun kill people that
00:32:00.640
express any logical reasonable ideas but i do want to argue that there's there's a difference between
00:32:05.320
people who've been ruined by the industrial education system and people who are just inherently
00:32:11.180
kind of speciating and like what they are like the way that they engage with the world the things that
00:32:17.540
entertain them the things that they like the fundamental way that they think
00:32:21.620
yeah okay i mean i just i want to argue that like there are more redeemable from a perspective of
00:32:31.400
like oh these people can like get us off planet these people can build great things people out there
00:32:36.120
then we might otherwise argue that no there's not a lot of people this is always you think that
00:32:41.500
there's a lot of smart people in the world i think that there's a handful i think there's like
00:32:44.680
maybe 50 000 maybe 100 000 i wonder if what simone is arguing is that there are people out
00:32:51.580
there that even if they're not that smart are in the right circumstances useful to building up a
00:32:56.100
society maybe i mean at least i'm arguing that a huge proportion of the people that right now
00:33:00.720
are not going to be able to build anything meaningful make any difference in society that
00:33:06.180
we personally would value in terms of like advancing civilization could have had they gone through
00:33:12.280
had they existed in a different type of society and gone through a different form of education
00:33:16.740
so they've been robbed of that you might be you might be able to create more independent thinking
00:33:22.400
like real people yes they were educated differently not might be you almost certainly would yeah because
00:33:28.200
there's a portion of people and this is particularly true among women where if no matter how smart they
00:33:32.960
are if they see something ashamed by society or they're like this is what's normative in my society
00:33:37.860
that's what they're going to do yeah i mean the basic argument against the lab leak theory is that
00:33:43.680
the wrong kind of people believe it yes yes that's it that's the argument yeah it is funny when you
00:33:49.380
mentioned you know people walking around and like like shooting people in the streets i'm like well we
00:33:53.900
didn't come far from that recently was the whole vaccine thing like they have shown that they're willing
00:33:59.780
to do this kind of stuff they've shown was like the trucker protest in canada when they would go
00:34:04.580
through and like cancel these people's bank accounts that they're willing to go to really i think much
00:34:10.360
more extreme levels than we were aware that they were willing to go yeah they're too cowardly to open
00:34:17.580
fire it's it's it's uh it's it's a more it's a more it's more it's more it's more caputalanimous way
00:34:22.540
of doing things counseling bank accounts making people's lives very difficult at least in at least
00:34:27.000
a hundred years ago you knew where you were a dictatorship just open fire you risk your life that's it
00:34:32.020
no no no you risk social ostracism and social difficulties like like being excluded from a
00:34:37.800
gang of girls and economic ostracism which is the more damaging thing you know we've met guys
00:34:42.680
one guy very like mainstream sort of guy just sort of called out efficacy around vaccine stuff
00:34:49.180
and he's been debanked debanked like like you can't use mainstream banks anymore he's not like going
00:34:56.640
out there spouting racist stuff he's not like going out there just said hey this this covid
00:35:01.700
narrative seems off to me and that's wild to me when they felt that they had power how far they
00:35:09.840
ran with it well it doesn't it doesn't seem surprising to me the covid they they had to
00:35:14.420
give the impression from a machiavellian perspective of just being in control being in control and the
00:35:19.920
covid thing illustrated very clearly the total lack of control they had no idea what they were doing
00:35:24.940
and so much was much worse to to question what they were doing in terms of covid than racism or
00:35:30.580
transphobia or whatever way worse because it was fundamentally this was this this could be
00:35:34.900
revolution i mean this is the government showing they don't know what they're doing yeah yeah i
00:35:41.160
mean just to what you were saying earlier in case any of our audience don't know this yet or they
00:35:44.900
haven't stayed up with the research like the lab leak theory thing the amount of evidence there is
00:35:50.440
for the lab leak theory being accurate is overwhelming it was definitely a lab leak like
00:35:56.780
this is to say it wasn't a lab leak is is is literally uh you know almost equivalent to like
00:36:03.920
the the moon landing was a hoax level like just grasping at straws and yet people were getting
00:36:11.960
deplatformed for saying that in the early days well now i mean people were being deplatformed for
00:36:18.540
anything that the mainstream like government or media establishment was not advocating for including
00:36:24.380
the efficacy of masks right you would get in huge trouble if you questioned that and of course even
00:36:30.040
in the beginning of the pandemic people were saying no no no don't wear masks because one they're not
00:36:33.680
effective and two like the good ones we need for actual health care we are so blessed that we were
00:36:39.820
not public figures when covid was happening oh we would have been so screwed that's right yeah
00:36:44.680
i was but i just felt it best to shut up about it smart very smart very smart i could see that this
00:36:53.200
this was the one thing that just no the third rail oh my goodness what i like about your theory though
00:36:59.980
in in general is that it is broadly optimistic you're you're taking a theory that was quite
00:37:05.300
pessimistic originally and now you're like oh no everything is going to be okay things are working
00:37:10.500
out the way that they're supposed to i mean it'll be okay in the end we'll have to we'll have to go
00:37:15.380
through hell first i was at churchill said if you're going through hell keep on going yeah and
00:37:21.080
there'll be there'll be a lot of unpleasantness first but yeah it seems to be that what i
00:37:25.300
originally thought was that it's just the collapse of society and there'll be a very very long dark
00:37:28.940
age and maybe with uh yeah the the uh uh maybe that will just collapse and that will be a very long
00:37:35.800
dark age but the more i've looked into it the more i'm thinking no we first of all there was a
00:37:40.960
byzantium last time that held out and so there should be this time secondly we have higher much more
00:37:46.600
technology this time so that if we can if we can create these separate states that are useful
00:37:51.780
using this technology then we can start at a higher level and so the renaissance you know and
00:37:56.660
so therefore we could potentially go further and thirdly i can't even begin to predict what effect
00:38:00.700
ai would have on this because it's a new thing in terms of good or bad things i mean the bad thing is
00:38:06.460
that it would just keep society on on sort of life support as it farms out all work to machines and
00:38:12.340
humans are just these sort of sort of farm animals really that are sort of milked by by a by a great
00:38:17.960
big machine and and and go into greater and greater dysgenics and i i don't know that could be terrible
00:38:23.300
actually this this is where the wokes are doing us enormous favor is because of ai if they weren't
00:38:28.520
pushing such strong pressure on us to all conglomerate together we likely wouldn't because of ai because
00:38:35.760
ai doesn't force civilization to collapse in the same way it has in the past if they weren't doing this
00:38:40.840
themselves we wouldn't be building these parallel economies well and isn't there an argument to be
00:38:45.820
made that because of ai there may not even be a dark age because one it will accelerate the
00:38:51.340
extermination of any group that will basically fall into like a hedonic pleasure box because ai will
00:38:57.160
facilitate that those people won't have kids and then those people won't be in the future at all
00:39:01.700
leaving only like really industrious hard-working non-hedonically motivated people left and ai to
00:39:08.360
empower them imagine if it can if it could if it can make i mean the pornography is a problem even
00:39:13.620
now so if you've got pornography that is utterly sating and not but an ersatz relationship which
00:39:20.020
seems real right then then you could see how it's going to be a it's a selection event even more so than
00:39:28.360
than i had previously said and so it it selects out all these men all but the most high quality men
00:39:34.000
all but the most high quality women out and and and you just have this this this group of
00:39:40.540
golden sonic golden people who well so then is this maybe as bad as it gets perhaps we are at the
00:39:47.520
lowest point no no no you you definitely will have an economic collapse after this oh well i think we
00:39:53.020
will we're so we're so if you look at sort of strauss howell whatever all the various theories on this
00:39:58.880
we're so due it i mean we really we're so due economic collapse and war where it's it's we
00:40:06.020
is it happening and i don't notice it or what i don't know but was it that we're just so rich
00:40:10.380
that we're not noticing it but we are absolutely in terms of this cycle i told you about this finished
00:40:14.700
guy this idea of cycles of hormones and whatever we are so we are so due something anytime now that
00:40:21.740
would be this conversation has been fantastic we're really glad we had you on again and i hope
00:40:28.080
that you have a spectacular day and guys do check out his book the the education book on amazon and
00:40:35.720
the naked classroom podcast what the naked classroom and the jolly heretic and my book on this subject we
00:40:43.120
were just discussing is called the past as a future country the coming conservative demographic
00:40:46.640
revolution and i've got another one called breeding the human herd eugenics isgenics and the future of
00:40:51.580
the species and i'm working on while on the outer distribution so it's a new new thing i'm working on
00:40:56.680
oh very fun and well and i love it i i love it because it's such a great thing to throw in our
00:41:02.660
opponents faces one of my favorite tweets was something like feminists and anti-natalists are
00:41:07.980
the only cultural groups that think that they can out-compete their rivals by having fewer kids
00:41:12.780
you know and it's just so silly on its face when you think about it but have a spectacular day
00:41:19.840
yes thank you so much for coming on great great talk to you both okay well i hope you had a great
00:41:24.540
christmas everybody and happy new year and all that