Humans are not born as tabula rasa. Our behaviors are partially genetically determined. But we are born with a very high level of plasticity allowing us to configure to our cultural norms and the local langauge, for example. Lewontin and Gould were afraid of the social implications of this knowledge, that it would be used as an excuse by racists to terminate certain genetic lineages, and they thought they were doing the right thing by denying the truth, especially given that the holocaust was just 30 years prior to this debate. But denying an inconvenient truth doesn't make it go away.

I used to keep a list as cancel culture started ramping up, but then I stopped because it was clearly happening too quickly for me to keep up. I'm guessing there are close to a hundred thousand people now.

Nonetheless, here are some names I jotted down over the years. I cannot vouch for any of these people. Being on the list just means they lost something (job, social media, bank account, etc) based on their political opinion voiced via free speech which was not in violation of any written policy (e.g. when it comes to social media). I have some data on some of these stories, but not for all of them. Some of them have died since, several have committed suicide, others begged to be let back into society and turned into cancellers themselves. So like I say, being on this list does not mean I vouch for them in any way, and many names I don't recognize.

Aaron Kindsvatter

Alan Dershowitz

Alessandro Strumia

Alex Jones

Alice Dreger

Ashutosh Jogalekar

Bari Weiss

Bret Weinstein

Brian Lieter

Brian Peckford

Candace Owens

Charles Murray

Chris Hedges

Christina Hoff Sommers

David Starkey

Debra W Soh

Don Brash

Donald Trump

E.O.Wilson

Eric Lander

Erika Christakis

Faith Goldy

Gary Garrels

Gavin McInnes

Gordon Klein

Harald Uhlig

Isabella Chow

James Damore

James Watson

John C Dvorak

Jordan Peterson

Lauren Southern

Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence Summers

Lindsay Shepherd

Lisa Littman

Mark Knight

Mary Spellman

Matthew Hubbard

Mehgan Murphy

Mike Adams

Noah Carl

Philippe Rushtin

Rebecca Tuvel

Richard J Hernstein

Rick Metha

Roland G Fryer, Jr.

Ron Sullivan

Sergei Tabachnikov

Stacy Brown

Stephen Molyneux

Steve Hsu

Steven Galloway

Steven Pinker

Teresa Nielson

Theodore P Hill

Tiffany Riley

Sir Tim Hunt

William A Jacobson

I'm secretly hoping that the reason I keep seeing ads for HIV drugs and Alzheimer's drugs is a sign that I have sufficiently strong privacy practices.

I have no idea what you meant.

If encouraging you to think for yourself rather than feeling like you only deserve to repeat the thoughts of others is agressive, I’m not sure you are conversing in good faith.

Regardless, it bears repeating that you and everyone are capable of thinking for yourselves and deserve to do so. I merely suggested that you could do so by engaging durectly with a source before accepting what someone else tells you to think about it.

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This text in the screenshot is a rambling assortment of words that hardly deserves attention because it says nothing.

If you’d like yo know if someone is authoritarian, just go directly to that person’s words and actions. You don’t need someone else (including the “Ray Peat”) to tell you what to think. THAT is authoritarian. You (like everyone) deserve to be free and think for yourself.

Here’s Chomsky speaking for himself on authoritarianism: nostr:note1mxexjx3cewratppg3hg50hpcvdz9ly6e3ejegy6vrydzw69fuz8sehscdk

there must definitely be a better system for assigning leadership of a state than regular elections.

a leader cannot think with the scope of a long-time horizon when they are at the whim of being polled for the immediate results of all their decisions.

we must retvrn to the roman emperor model, with a better approach to succession.

This sounds nonsensical to me. The stuff in the screenshot is all hearsay.

What was JFK doing to get called one of the worst creatures in the world by Chomsky?

So the more you post on Nostr, the unsafer it becomes?

We need a NIP for key rotation it seems. And one that’s widely adapted too!