posted on October 29, 2019 04:23 AM by
u/Epistaxis
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u/vermetel32 pointsat 1572335383.000000
The Shape of the Earth, a rationalist essay
I recently heard someone (who is a female and a feminist!) say that
the Earth is a sphere. She, as the typical inferior thinkers do,
provided no evidence for this assertion. So as an obnoxious contrarian,
I decided to test this cultural Marxist’s idea and all its weird and
scary consequences.
[…]
Consider this: when I go to the grocery store a few blocks away to
buy my brain optimization pills, do I think about great circles and
latitudes and longitudes? Obviously not! I am very smart and know
everything. So if people’s rational behaviour doesn’t match with this
round Earth, why do the SJWs believe in it anyway?
[…]
The only conclusion is that the round Earth is believed by Marxists
because they cannot accept that the people at the centre of Circle Earth
(i.e. the white race) are obviously superiorly brained. The Earth is
flat and I am the smartest.
I don’t think the people who say shit like this understand how
incredibly common hoax or bullshit papers getting through into journals
are. It’s just people only start screaming about fashionable nonsense
when it’s the humanities.
The really weird thing is that it never registers with them that the most dangerous academic hoax in recent memory was Andrew Wakefield's anti-vaccine article published in *The* fucking *Lancet*. If Sokal invalidated postmodernism, why didn't Wakefield invalidate all of modern medicine?
Accepted in three weeks and you don't need to have any training in biology either!
>As an aside, Mr. Lal was trained in mechanical engineering and currently works as a software engineer. He does not have any background in psychology, let alone evolutionary psychology, and has not taken any biology class since high school. (But then again, neither have I.) -Satoshi Kanazawa
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa#Kanazawa_Kwotes
It's one of my favourite takedowns of all time, but then [Kanazawa is an astonishingly wide target](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/kanazawa.pdf)
He also debated Primal Poly himself on whether evopsych should focus its attention on East Asia, with Miller arguing it should because it was free of PC/fundie bias, and Kanazawa arguing it shouldn't because Asian cultures are inherently uncreative and opposed to innovation
Wait, and this is all just with straightforward regression? Using
great circle distances through waypoints is not only common practice but
quite trivial. Though it still wouldn’t get rid of a whole load of
confounding.
I can see the appeal of flat earth jesus dispersals, though. Tried to
get a truncated spherical multivaviate BM model up some time ago and
getting it to respect geographic boundaries (oceans, big mountain
ranges, etc.) is hard :S
The Shape of the Earth, a rationalist essay
I recently heard someone (who is a female and a feminist!) say that the Earth is a sphere. She, as the typical inferior thinkers do, provided no evidence for this assertion. So as an obnoxious contrarian, I decided to test this cultural Marxist’s idea and all its weird and scary consequences.
[…]
Consider this: when I go to the grocery store a few blocks away to buy my brain optimization pills, do I think about great circles and latitudes and longitudes? Obviously not! I am very smart and know everything. So if people’s rational behaviour doesn’t match with this round Earth, why do the SJWs believe in it anyway?
[…]
The only conclusion is that the round Earth is believed by Marxists because they cannot accept that the people at the centre of Circle Earth (i.e. the white race) are obviously superiorly brained. The Earth is flat and I am the smartest.
I don’t think the people who say shit like this understand how incredibly common hoax or bullshit papers getting through into journals are. It’s just people only start screaming about fashionable nonsense when it’s the humanities.
“Accepted in three weeks” what the fuck I want to switch to evopsych now
that’s the fucking best
It’s not a hoax, if you believe it.
lol Satoshi Kanazawa
Wait, and this is all just with straightforward regression? Using great circle distances through waypoints is not only common practice but quite trivial. Though it still wouldn’t get rid of a whole load of confounding.
I can see the appeal of flat earth jesus dispersals, though. Tried to get a truncated spherical multivaviate BM model up some time ago and getting it to respect geographic boundaries (oceans, big mountain ranges, etc.) is hard :S