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Are you sure you have the layers right? Or perhaps they're calibrated to Millennials and Gen Z? For instance, Europeans being a combination of 3 groups (meme I level 8) and IQ correlating with brain waves (meme II bottom level) are things a few normies know about, while race and attractiveness (meme I level 5) is something most normies are uncomfortably aware of, and a strong theme among obnoxious level 2's. Meanwhile PCA (meme i level 3) is a pretty technical concept, and I have no idea what a lot of the middle layer is. Cremieux? 13/60? Strenze meta-analysis?

Most interesting was the claim that rationalists are closet hereditarians, which I strongly doubt - they're pretty left leaning. Shame you didn't have a source substantiating that one. (Also you missed some bottom level facts which I, uh... wouldn't know anything about)

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If you dive deep into the rationalist sphere, there are quite a few who are clearly hiding their beliefs about race and IQ. Not particularly interested in outing them, but if you ask around, maybe you will find an answer.

13/60 -> https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/p/quantifying-racial-disparities-in excluding murders where murderer race is unknown leads to an underestimate in the % of homicides committed by black people - true figure is about 60%

cremieux is a guy on twitter

strenze meta is here https://gwern.net/doc/iq/2015-strenze.pdf

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OK, I suspect I know some of the names you're hinting at, but "quite a few" individual persons doesn't mean > 20% of the total mass. There's a negative correlation between IQ and hereditarianism across the Western world where the cool kids play, and an even bigger negative relationship between leftist politics and hereditarianism. Rationalists are overwhelmingly intelligent leftists; speaking about them as a group, it's not likely that they plumb the chilly depths near the bottom of the iceberg.

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