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Discussing Ben Pace’s recent post on the Rationalist Vices.
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Hey boys, have been listening to you two for years and love you guys immensely but you guys are still making big mistakes, especially for rationnalist. A quick google search will show you that even the highest estimations for genes that decides skin color are under 500 where as for something like height more than 10 000 genes have been identified. There really isn’t any proof for race, do you really want to define a different group and call it “race” with a category such as “skin color” when the guy next to you standing 10cm taller or shorter is 100x more different than you genetically? Please start doing the maths more often,that’s a big part of being rationnal.
Again, love you two immensely, hope to hear your responses if i’m mistaken in my understanding.
The core claim is that groups of humans that were reproductively separate for many generations are different in many ways from other groups of humans in ways that are heritable. Skin color and height are two ways in how such groups can be different, yes.