Message from @ebowden

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2018-04-18 18:53:44 UTC  

Huge, bipartisan programs in the US all met with unequivocal failure.

2018-04-18 18:54:04 UTC  

For the simple reason that there is not much one can do.

2018-04-18 18:54:32 UTC  

If you show your kids the will to work

2018-04-18 18:54:34 UTC  

IQ is highly heritable, and only gets more heritable the older you are.

2018-04-18 18:54:42 UTC  

And you give them a better shot then you had

2018-04-18 18:54:45 UTC  

They will do the same

2018-04-18 18:54:48 UTC  

Yes.

2018-04-18 18:54:54 UTC  

Well, not always, but yes.

2018-04-18 18:54:55 UTC  

But you have to always instill that idea

2018-04-18 18:55:11 UTC  

You can duck that up just as quick by giving your kids whatever they want

2018-04-18 18:55:26 UTC  

By not holding them accountable for the actions

2018-04-18 18:55:38 UTC  

Not giving them responsibility then punishing them for not meeting them

2018-04-18 18:56:01 UTC  

Something as simple as getting them a puppy

2018-04-18 18:56:36 UTC  

@Seatoast Games designed to enhance IQ do not work.

2018-04-18 18:57:38 UTC  

High intensity first person shooters are certainly not designed to do that, yet they enhance visual acuity and IQ.

2018-04-18 18:57:52 UTC  

(Where games designed to do so failed.)

2018-04-18 18:58:22 UTC  

Give your kids some some really hard FPSs @Seatoast.

2018-04-18 18:59:04 UTC  

Unlike a whole bunch of other woo that will be pushed on you, that shit actually has quite a significant effect.

2018-04-18 18:59:15 UTC  

And is actually fun.

2018-04-18 19:00:23 UTC  
2018-04-18 19:01:34 UTC  

I'm serious, in the paper I read it was a 6 point enhancement, which is huge for things like this.

2018-04-18 19:10:38 UTC  

I agree

2018-04-18 19:12:52 UTC  

Normally even 2 points is huge.

2018-04-18 19:15:31 UTC  

Especially compared to the 0 points that such efforts normally give you.

2018-04-18 19:16:23 UTC  

An even more interesting example is synesthesia training, which failed to give the trainees synesthesia.

2018-04-18 19:16:41 UTC  

But guess what it did give them? An average 12 point increase in IQ.

2018-04-18 19:16:54 UTC  

Which is completely unheard of.

2018-04-18 19:17:31 UTC  

The common factor I see emerging in interventions that actually increase IQ is that they were never designed to increase IQ.

2018-04-18 20:18:03 UTC  

When it comes to passing on your genes, epigenetics will give you a headache.

2018-04-20 16:29:05 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/428785753477218307/436926291145392138/IMG_20180419_201329.jpg

2018-04-20 16:37:41 UTC  

a fucking party is suing the biggest country in the world

2018-04-20 16:38:20 UTC  

also pls dont show us breaking the fucking law

2018-04-20 16:38:26 UTC  

or we will sue

2018-04-20 16:56:09 UTC  

I don't see how the DNC can come back from this

2018-04-20 17:50:56 UTC  

RIP DNC

2018-04-20 20:21:39 UTC  

Come back from what?

2018-04-21 00:07:01 UTC  

trying to sue a country, an activist group and a political campaign because they're asshurt that they lost the election @ebowden

2018-04-21 02:38:50 UTC  

Will it actually hurt their campaign?
You never know when you might get an activist judge.

2018-04-21 03:45:11 UTC  

I guess it depends on what court they're bringing it to