Smart People Live In The Future

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Luke Ford

Justin Murphy writes:

Human intelligence is one of the most well understood human traits. It varies significantly across humans. It is partially genetic. What does it mean that human beings have different problem-solving power? Following from above, one implication is that humans live on different time scales. In some non-trivial sense, high-IQ people are living farther in the future than low-IQ people. This is why speaking with someone significantly smarter than you is quite literally speaking with an alien who has come from the future. And speaking with someone less smart than you is like speaking with someone from the past. You can think about this even in a minute-by-minute sense. As a highly intelligent person speaks, a less intelligent person is still inhabiting the first words of the sentence while the speaker is finishing the last words, whereas an even more intelligent listener is correctly predicting a speaker’s second sentence before they are even finished with their first sentence.
But we all live together, so society is basically a kind of inter-temporal zone. With the rise of mass media, the reality that receives sponsorship will be a weighted average of the audience’s time-slice. Smarter people will always be ahead, dumber people will always be behind, but most of the people with average intelligence will converge on a quotidian reality, all the more reinforced by a shared, external, socio-political legitimation. One of the key problems with a mass-media culture in a capitalist society is that any ideas overly contradicting or offending mass sensibilities will be selected out of the mass-media model of reality, as a simple outcome of supply and demand. Unsurprisingly, one of the key planks of contemporary ideology is that there do not exist significant, genetic psychological and behavioral differences between individuals and groups.
Marx thought that ideology protected the status quo by reflecting the interests of the bourgeoisie, and it does, but not by giving the bourgeoisie disproportionate power to project their ideas. Ideology operates by promoting the stupid ideas, especially those preferred by the weak and the poor. This is how left-wing compassion can be a kind of vicious commitment to the weak and poor remaining weak and poor. By treating less intelligent people as equally intelligent, you are actively conspiring to ensure your advantage remains stable. With ideology, it is not that the ideas of the ruling class are favored, but the opposite: the stupid ideas of the stupid are respected, for the economic gains of the smart. Nowhere do you see this more clearly than with a company such as Google, which will fire an employee for writing about psychological differences between the sexes, while actively leveraging the reality of those differences in advertising market segmentation.
So the social taboo on human psychological differences is itself a piece of stupidity, that ensures subjects continue to follow routines that do not work, like trying to solve a rubik’s cube by spinning one slice over and over. On the other hand, the unfettered play of intelligenic differences is no doubt catastrophic. That is what’s happening today, in the rise of inequality and mass cultural confusion. The problem is that intelligence is precisely that which escapes constraints designed by the less intelligent. Tax evasion, for instance. We cannot tax the rich even if we wanted to, they are too smart relative to bureacratic governmental institutions.

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ADL: White Supremacist Infighting Escalates After Shelbyville Event

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Luke Ford

From the ADL:

White supremacists have been fighting among themselves ever since the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That infighting escalated following last weekend’s White Lives Matter (WLM) rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
About 200 white supremacists around the country attended the WLM rally. The main organization behind the rally was the Nationalist Front, which includes groups such as League of the South, a Southern nationalist group, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and two other neo-Nazi groups, Matt Heimbach and Matt Parrott’s Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), and Vanguard America. A number of Klan groups were also represented at the rally, including the Global Crusader Knights and the International Keystone Knights.
There is a major point of contention among various white supremacist factions: divergent opinions about acceptable ways to act and dress – and how to best promote their cause. In one camp, are white supremacists who promote “American Nationalism” and advocate for a racist ideology that appeals to conservatives with the use of ostensibly unifying symbols like the American flag, They also use more subtle language to promote their white supremacist ideas and events. They are in conflict with those whom Occidental Dissent’s Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, identifies as the “hard right” who prefer to highlight their racist and anti-Semitic ideology through their militant dress, explicit language, and hardcore beliefs such as National Socialism.
A number of the attendees in Tennessee openly displayed neo-Nazi symbols such as SS bolts and Klan patches. Some also gave Nazi salutes and wore black helmets reminiscent of fascist forces during World War II. Griffin, one of the organizers of the event, stressed in his “post-mortem” analysis of the event that “there were no swastika flags in Shelbyville.” The Nationalist Front was trying to contain the display of the most blatant Nazi imagery at the rally so that the attendees could appear less hardcore than they actually are, but the effort fell flat. The “optics” of neo-Nazis giving “Sieg heil” salutes and Klan members wearing Klan symbols on their jackets irked a number of activists on the alt right.
A number of alt right activists had harsh words for the WLM rally, including Andrew Anglin, who runs The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site. Nathan Damigo, the former head of Identity Evropa, a white supremacist group active in the campaign to post fliers on campuses, and Nicholas Fuentes and Jack Allsup, two college students who present themselves as “conservatives” but have their feet planted firmly in the worlds of white nationalism and the alt right, were angry at the WLM rally attendees for displaying signs and symbols associated with the hardcore white supremacist movement.
In a column for The Daily Stormer, Anglin, who recently disavowed his neo-Nazi persona, disparaged the “1980s style neo-Nazism” on display in Tennessee, and wrote that the rally was “not at all close to the vision I have for the movement I have contributed to.” He went on to encourage fellow white supremacists to make an attempt to look like “something normal people can get behind.”
Damigo, Fuentes and Allsup also attacked the rally on Twitter, with Damigo saying it was “cringe” and “self-indulgent extremism.” Allsup made fun of the march in a tweet, telling Griffin that he “can go celebrate ‘victory’ with your twenty KKK buddies,” and adding, “RAHOWA [Racial Holy War, a common white supremacist refrain] is definitely coming any day now, buddy!” In his tweet, Fuentes disparaged the “card carrying KKK & Nazis, Roman salutes, not a single decent recording and underwhelming attendance.”
Both Griffin and TWP’s Matt Parrott (who did not attend the rally in Shelbyville) reacted with anger to the attacks from alt right figures. Griffin called them “a bunch of childless homosexuals” and wrote on his blog, Occidental Dissent, that the rally was a “success” because it changed the narrative around Charlottesville by demonstrating that white supremacists could hold an event without violence.
Parrott was likewise on the defensive, saying he believed the WLM rally was a success. He chided the white supremacists who want to dress up “like frat boys with American flags” and described members of his own group as “street nationalists” who put themselves in the line of fire against groups like antifa. He attacked American Nationalism, saying, “Identifying ourselves with this prolapsing empire is a bad idea that we will not sign off on.” He also said that he and his cohorts “realize that the American federal government can’t be and won’t be a vehicle for White Nationalism.”
Ultimately, the alt right and white supremacists like Parrott share the same ideology. Both groups promote racism and anti-Semitism and want whites to live separately from non-whites, but they disagree on how to achieve that goal. It seems unlikely that they will reconcile their differences anytime soon.

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Steve Sailer: A Debate Over the Dodgers’ Iranian-Japanese Pitcher Yu Darvish

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: First fan: Darvish should do the honorable thing and remove himself from the game by committing seppuku on the mound.

Second fan: Or at least he could flog himself Shi’ite style on his way to the showers.

Japanese athletes had a lot of pressure on them in the 20th Century in international competitions, such as the Japanese marathoner who was supposed to win the golf in Tokyo in 1964 but committed suicide.

The Japanese underachieved for awhile in the Olympics, quite possibly due to the stifling pressure of representing the nation.

But in the 21st Century, Japanese have done pretty well in the Olympics, so maybe they’ve learned better how to deal with the pressure.

I don’t know about Kershaw and his post-season problems, but here’s an analogy.

Bill James wrote about how Craig Biggio was a Hall of Famer during the regular season, but was pretty mediocre in the postseason. He speculated that Biggio, a smallish man for a big time athlete, may have feasted on #5 starters but got outgunned by all the aces he had to face in the postseason.

Unfortunately, Baseball References splits page don’t let you check that. What I did notice about Biggio was that his regular season hitting fell off pretty badly in September, the sixth and last month of the regular season. My guess would be that he worked out very hard in the offseason, started the season in great shape, and then started to wear down from minor injuries (second basemen get beat up a lot by runners trying to break up the double play) and fatigue in the last month of the season and this carried through into the postseason.

Another possibility is that the Astros are just a historically strong hitting team. No they are probably not as good as the 1927 Yankees other than the Yankees didn’t have a DH. But if the OPS+ figure is correct, they are considerably stronger hitters than, say, the famous 1982 Milwaukee Brewers or the zillion dollar Yankee teams of the Rodriguez-Jeter-Cano era.

COMMENTS:

* Has an Asian athlete ever had a Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Tom Brady moment. It seems that they always crumble in high stakes moments where there is not a lot of time for preparation. Just asking?

* Tony Castro: Sadaharu Oh. Hideki Matsui was the 2009 World Series MVP for the Yankees hitting .615 (8 for 13) with 3 home runs and 8 RBI. Hideo Nomo Nomo is one of only five players that have ever pitched a no-hitter game in both the National League and American League in Major League Baseball history. He has pitched the only no-hitters at Coors Field and Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Ichiro Suzuki was MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001, 10 time All Star, had 10 200 hit season and holds the record for most hits in a season, joined the 3,000-Hit Club… all this after playing his first nine season in the Japanese leagues.

I wonder if the real question about the Dodgers’ loss that you should be asking has nothing to do with Darvish and more to do with the person making the decision to have him pitch that game when the team’s best pitcher was healthy enough to start. Or, if you wanted to make a point about an Asian heritage athlete NOT having a Magic-Bird-Brady moment when the stakes were high, you more accurately could have singled out Dodger Manager Dave Roberts, who clearly showed himself to be a small-time manager with a big-time team in a major league moment — and failing.
If the only reason Dave Roberts is manager of the Dodgers is his role in the 2004 Boston World Series championship, then perhaps the Dodgers should have hired Terry Francona, who was the manager of that team and of the 2007 World Series champs as well.

* The Yakuza way is to cut off the finger. In this case, cut off his entire hand.

* Hideki Masui was 2009 World Series MVP batting in 6 runs in the decisive 6th game.

* Maybe, Yu Darvish was too traumatized by Yuli Gurriel’s micro-aggressions to pitch effectively.

* True enough, Darvish was just horrible. He was scared to death, as he was his first start of the WS.

But in fact, it was Dodger manager Roberts who really hurt the Dodgers.

– 1. By starting Darvish a second time. He had the previously very effective lefty Alex Wood ready to go.

– 2. Not only did Roberts start Darvish twice, but Roberts made blunder after blunder throughout the series.

Astros manager Hinch clearly out managed Roberts in every way.

I’m a Dodgers fan and it was embarrassing.

* Even though Kershaw is a multimillionaire superstar, I sometimes can’t help but feel a bit sorry for him. There may be something about his pitching style that doesn’t translate that well to the postseason, but he’s been pretty unlucky as well.

This year, for example, no one is going to remember his postseason performance as being dominant, because the Dodgers didn’t win the World Series, and because he got shelled in the infamous WS Game 5.

But if you look at his overall stats for this postseason, they’re (almost) uniformly excellent.

He went 3-0, to please the saber-hater traditionalists.

He gave up just 21 hits in 33 innings, and his opponents hit just .179 against him, as compared with .212 in the regular season.

His WHIP in the postseason — 0.94 — was actually lower than in the regular season, when it was 0.95.

He had 33 strikeouts in those 33 innings, an excellent one-per-inning average. Admittedly, this is not quite as good as he was in the regular season, but it’s close enough to be statistically meaningless, and again, it’s against better competition, including one of the best-hitting teams of all time in the Astros.

The problem, as you say, was the home run. Kershaw gave up 8 in the 2017 postseason, leading very directly to an ERA of 3.82, compared to 2.21 in the regular season.

He had some problems with the long ball in the regular season this year as well, as he gave up 23, which is his worst season in this regard by quite a margin. But 8 in 33 innings is really bad compared with 23 in 175 regular-season innings — much less the 11 in 236 innings he gave up back in 2013.

So this again makes one think. All things considered, Kershaw seems better than ever — except for the gopher balls. So either he’s held steady or even improved in all aspects of his pitching except for suddenly and inexplicably grooving occasional pitches in a way he didn’t in the past, or else we’re back to wondering about the ball again.

* According to some guys on sportsball radio this morning, the Astros picked up a tell in Darvish’s pitching. When he held the ball still in his glove, a fastball was coming. If his pitching hand was moving around getting a grip on the ball, a slider was coming. So they hitters knew just what to expect.

The radio guys also noted that the Dodgers pitching coach should have picked this up as well and warned Darvish, but apparently that didn’t happen.

* His slider was a cement mixer as well, for Houston it was like hitting the ball from a T.

Even Fox broadcaster hall of famer Smoltz stated that this is what happens when a pitcher is nervous and cannot bring his nerves under control. He get’s under the ball, he aims, is tight with his breaking pitches, etc, etc.

Darvish was not ready for the big moments and it clearly showed. His eyes even had the look of fear.

Yet the not too smart Dave Roberts started him a 2nd time with the same results as the 1st when he had the previously effective Alex Woods ready to go.

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A Goy Is Going To Run The Fed! Oy Gevalt!

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

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Richard Spencer On The Jewish Question

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Luke Ford

Richard Spencer appears on this October 28, 2017 podcast.

Eighty nine minutes in, a host says: “I want to give you a chance to clear the air. I notice that a fair amount of people criticize you for being weak on the JQ. I’ve heard you describe ideologues you don’t like as having a Jewish hearth. I’ve heard you talk in depth about the extent of Jewish influence and I’ve heard you juxtapose Jewish philosophy with that of our people. What do you have to say to your critics? Is there something about your style that people don’t get?”

Richard: “It’s a question of style. And also it’s a strategic choice. There are people who I consider friends and colleagues such as Andrew Joyce, I’m working on his manuscript which is a book on the Jewish Question [Talmud and Taboo], and Kevin MacDonald, who’s spoken at the last four NPI conferences… They’ve done an amazing job deconstructing the Jewish mind and seriously considering the Jewish Question. It is probably my role to focus on other areas and to look at ourselves and to remind us that Jews do have power because we allow them to. They aren’t just this outside entity, like Israel that controls American foreign policy, but they’re in our heads. They’ve been able to inform how we understand ourselves and how we understand the world.”

“That’s kinda a meme from 2016 that I’m pro-Jewish or want to avoid this question. I don’t know how anyone can say that now. I’ll never live down [his joke that homosexuals are the last stand of implicit white identity]… That is obviously a serious misunderstanding of how I see the world and what I believe.”

Host: “I’ve been asked many times — what is it with you and the Jews. I say, you misunderstand the fundamental point of my opposition. These things that I see as damaging and degenerative to my society just happen to coincide with the Jews. Is it a Jewish thing? I don’t know. I’m railing against things that I see as destructive in my society. I can’t help but notice. But is it motivated by the Jews? No. They’re a symptom of the larger problem that needs to be addressed.”

Richard: “I agree with that to a large extent. The problem to a large extent is in ourselves. I’m not sure that Jewish power, to the degree to which they have it right now, can function outside the white race. If the white race were to end, I’m not sure the Jews could control the Chinese in the way they control us. They don’t just control us merely through political power, they control us through moral power. We think that they are sacred, that they are’t just another people. The Jewish Question ultimately has to be a question about us. How do they have such a hold over our minds that their history is sacred. Their schema in creating culture has had such a hold over our minds. The JQ is ultimately a WQ (White Question).”

Host: “As a father of children that if they whine loud and long enough, I’ve been known to give in. Fundamentally, white people seem to be conflict averse. If you will just stop your kvetching, hush.”

Richard: “The myth of the Holocaust is far more powerful than the fact of the Holocaust. There was a tremendous amount of suffering. We don’t have to talk about numbers. There is a tremendous amount of suffering in the world. History is a slaughter bench. The Rape of Nanking is not sacred to white people in the way the Holocaust does.”

“Why is their history sacred? I think a lot of it has to do with that we are worshiping their God.”

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