I asked the following at the last AMA but they must not have been visible to you for some reason:
Hi Ed, long time drinker at the JH, glad to see the boost in production quality.
Do try to get Peter Hitchens on, I think having the pair of you chat on both religion and the sexual revolution would be very interesting.
Here's my question: Natural selection is clearly a scientific fact, but I have not been convinced beyond reasonable doubt that all living organisms today came about solely through "random mutation" from a common ancestor. From what I have read, there isn't any concrete evidence that this is the case. Could you convince me otherwise?
Do have a look at this, I'd appreciate if you try to poke holes in the argument presented here: https://youtu.be/NetQrus79aM
Also, when are you gonna be in London for an IRL meetup?
In your excellent book, Spiteful Mutants, you described Spiteful Mutants as damaged individuals who have a drive to create chaos and who act as social influencers to produce dysfunctional outlooks and social structures among individuals who are not as damaged.
Can you extend your discussion of Spiteful Mutants to include the leaders of the West, who appear to not only push dysfunctional philosophies, but appear to actively sabotage their own countries through excessive, pointless regulations and actions such as lockdowns, shutting down of electricity generation stations, and even promoting wars quite likely leading to nuclear exchanges. In other words, these leaders are producing chaos not only through disrupting the normal functioning of society, but by using the levers of power to actively destroy the societies they are leading.
I have a secondary, somewhat related question. In your book, you stated Spiteful Mutants have a drive for chaos, but I couldn't find an evolutionary reason. Are the Spiteful Mutants anticipating having damaged children such that their damaged children would function better in a chaotic society? Or, do they, like homosexuals, reproduce by recruitment? Or is there a different dynamic?
I think your presentations provide an extremely powerful framework to understand the amazing deterioration of our civilization and societies.
In a recent piece, you mentioned (incidentally) that there may be some genetic explanation for a very small number of people being genuinely gender dysmorphic. I'd be very interested to hear or read more about that if you have sources. Does this suggest there's a worthwhile distinction to be made between someone suffering from a genetically derived mental deformity rather than a psychiatric condition caused by emotional and environmental factors?
I sometimes catch myself simplifying my language so as to not sound like a snob, i.e. my environment influences me to use fewer fancy words. One way to see a decreasing g is by counting fancy words in writing across time. Can one parse the environmental influence here from the genetic? If so, how?
I would like to know whether there is any evidence to support the claim that racial diversity in one's genes (i.e. mixed race parents or grandparents) provides an evolutionary advantage to any offspring? There may have been a study on Brazil citizens but it was a long time ago and I've heard nothing about this hypothesis since. Is it advantageous for physical fitness, the immune system and intelligence, or does it have an overall negative effect?
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Do you have any thoughts on the future implications of Chinese involvement in Africa, from an evolutionary or demographic perspective? Do you agree with Richard Lynn that the future is probably Chinese?
Hello Dr. Dutton. Are there specific places outside of the internet which attract intelligent people who aren’t maladaptive and may know of this niche subculture? For social networking and community building related purposes.
How far are we from being able to manually select a man/woman's sperm/egg which will be virtually guaranteed to have the highest IQ that's possible with the couple? Once possible, could this save us?
How far are we from being able to manually edit the genome of an embryo to virtually guarantee a higher-than-natural IQ? Once possible, could this save us?
You've explained an evolutionary/biological origin for homosexuality, but is there any such explanation for the presence of homophobia (or otherwise a disgust response to homosexual activity)?
What do you think of the introduction of a "Holocaust denial" law into Finnish legislation, as announced in the recent "anti-racist communication" released by the Finnish government?
In regards to your theory of societal collapse how do you reconcile this with other voices in the space, most of the other commenters seem to think the symptoms of the collapse i.e. feminisms, mental illness are the root cause. Whenever I present your theory to people they just instantly dismiss it and start rambling about the woke nonsense being the problem rather than it being at the genetic level.
Great info always. Four questions: 1. When IQs were fairly low c. 1500, why was artistic genius the highest ever? Michelangelo, Leonardo, et al.
2. What effect did Stalin's famines and purges have on Russian IQ? Was IQ lowered because he cut off the top brains, leaving only dull toadies? Or raised because selection pressure favored those who were smart, while the dumber ones just died?
3. Is Chinese IQ high today because it industrialized later? (I used to know a Catholic missionary, now gone, who said in the 1940s the place still was largely agricultural with a high infant mortality rate.)
4. What effect did Mao's Great Leap forward, tens of millions dead, have on Chinese IQ?
“Passport Bros: Feminists Are Outraged At Men Going Overseas To Find Traditional Wives”, with some interesting comments, the general tone being, “if the game is rigged, go find another game.“ I’d love to hear your comments and thoughts on the article.
I asked the following at the last AMA but they must not have been visible to you for some reason:
Hi Ed, long time drinker at the JH, glad to see the boost in production quality.
Do try to get Peter Hitchens on, I think having the pair of you chat on both religion and the sexual revolution would be very interesting.
Here's my question: Natural selection is clearly a scientific fact, but I have not been convinced beyond reasonable doubt that all living organisms today came about solely through "random mutation" from a common ancestor. From what I have read, there isn't any concrete evidence that this is the case. Could you convince me otherwise?
Do have a look at this, I'd appreciate if you try to poke holes in the argument presented here: https://youtu.be/NetQrus79aM
Also, when are you gonna be in London for an IRL meetup?
Hi Luke, thanks for the Q. London meet-up will be announced soon. Looking like Oct 13th (Friday).
Hi Ed. Here is my question.
In your excellent book, Spiteful Mutants, you described Spiteful Mutants as damaged individuals who have a drive to create chaos and who act as social influencers to produce dysfunctional outlooks and social structures among individuals who are not as damaged.
Can you extend your discussion of Spiteful Mutants to include the leaders of the West, who appear to not only push dysfunctional philosophies, but appear to actively sabotage their own countries through excessive, pointless regulations and actions such as lockdowns, shutting down of electricity generation stations, and even promoting wars quite likely leading to nuclear exchanges. In other words, these leaders are producing chaos not only through disrupting the normal functioning of society, but by using the levers of power to actively destroy the societies they are leading.
I have a secondary, somewhat related question. In your book, you stated Spiteful Mutants have a drive for chaos, but I couldn't find an evolutionary reason. Are the Spiteful Mutants anticipating having damaged children such that their damaged children would function better in a chaotic society? Or, do they, like homosexuals, reproduce by recruitment? Or is there a different dynamic?
I think your presentations provide an extremely powerful framework to understand the amazing deterioration of our civilization and societies.
In a recent piece, you mentioned (incidentally) that there may be some genetic explanation for a very small number of people being genuinely gender dysmorphic. I'd be very interested to hear or read more about that if you have sources. Does this suggest there's a worthwhile distinction to be made between someone suffering from a genetically derived mental deformity rather than a psychiatric condition caused by emotional and environmental factors?
I sometimes catch myself simplifying my language so as to not sound like a snob, i.e. my environment influences me to use fewer fancy words. One way to see a decreasing g is by counting fancy words in writing across time. Can one parse the environmental influence here from the genetic? If so, how?
I would like to know whether there is any evidence to support the claim that racial diversity in one's genes (i.e. mixed race parents or grandparents) provides an evolutionary advantage to any offspring? There may have been a study on Brazil citizens but it was a long time ago and I've heard nothing about this hypothesis since. Is it advantageous for physical fitness, the immune system and intelligence, or does it have an overall negative effect?
Thank you!
Do you have any thoughts on the future implications of Chinese involvement in Africa, from an evolutionary or demographic perspective? Do you agree with Richard Lynn that the future is probably Chinese?
Hello Dr. Dutton. Are there specific places outside of the internet which attract intelligent people who aren’t maladaptive and may know of this niche subculture? For social networking and community building related purposes.
How far are we from being able to manually select a man/woman's sperm/egg which will be virtually guaranteed to have the highest IQ that's possible with the couple? Once possible, could this save us?
How far are we from being able to manually edit the genome of an embryo to virtually guarantee a higher-than-natural IQ? Once possible, could this save us?
You've explained an evolutionary/biological origin for homosexuality, but is there any such explanation for the presence of homophobia (or otherwise a disgust response to homosexual activity)?
What do you think of the introduction of a "Holocaust denial" law into Finnish legislation, as announced in the recent "anti-racist communication" released by the Finnish government?
Could you reupload the old streams with Michael for paid subs? He shared a wealth of knowledge for the limited run.
Hopefully coming soon.
Ed has said that Michael asked Ed to take down all his videos. I assume if Ed is posting them, Michael has withdrawn his request.
In regards to your theory of societal collapse how do you reconcile this with other voices in the space, most of the other commenters seem to think the symptoms of the collapse i.e. feminisms, mental illness are the root cause. Whenever I present your theory to people they just instantly dismiss it and start rambling about the woke nonsense being the problem rather than it being at the genetic level.
Great info always. Four questions: 1. When IQs were fairly low c. 1500, why was artistic genius the highest ever? Michelangelo, Leonardo, et al.
2. What effect did Stalin's famines and purges have on Russian IQ? Was IQ lowered because he cut off the top brains, leaving only dull toadies? Or raised because selection pressure favored those who were smart, while the dumber ones just died?
3. Is Chinese IQ high today because it industrialized later? (I used to know a Catholic missionary, now gone, who said in the 1940s the place still was largely agricultural with a high infant mortality rate.)
4. What effect did Mao's Great Leap forward, tens of millions dead, have on Chinese IQ?
Thank you!
do you think Elon Musk is K or R strategist
There is a great article at ZeroHedge titled:
“Passport Bros: Feminists Are Outraged At Men Going Overseas To Find Traditional Wives”, with some interesting comments, the general tone being, “if the game is rigged, go find another game.“ I’d love to hear your comments and thoughts on the article.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/passport-bros-feminists-are-outraged-men-going-overseas-find-traditional-wives