The left has no idea the monster they’ve created with Gen Z men. Absolutely no idea. These guys spent their formative years navigating an unprecedented social experiment—COVID lockdowns; DEI struggle sessions; pronouns, micro-aggressions, land acknowledgements, intersectional justice—and, as a demographic, they simply snapped. They stopped fearing cancellation, they realized black marks on social credit scores don’t leave permanent stains, and they started owning—rather than futilely trying to defend against—the accusations of villainry they had suffered since young age. It’s a wholesale reactionary movement against a political system—more than that, a culture at large—which, rightly or wrongly, they see as dedicated to their emasculation. A system that, in their view, creates little of value, affords them scant opportunity, celebrates that which is ugly and mediocre and profanes that which is sacred. From the fires of this crucible is emerging the most right-wing generation I’ve ever seen. And from the unhinged group chats of today are emerging the legislators and congressmen of tomorrow. The left has no idea what they have done, and they can’t imagine what the second- and third-order effects of this will be.

A few companies now offer embryo screening based on polygenic trait scores (aggregated across thousands of genetic variants), and @herasight is the best at predicting most traits. For parents who want the best chance of having a healthy, happy kid, this will be a big deal.

'Ending homelessness' would require ending major mental illness and drug addiction. Tens of thousands of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and others have been trying to do that for over a century, spending tens of billions of dollars of federal research money. With limited success. Anybody who thinks that homelessness could be ended just by throwing a few more tens of billions of dollars at the problem knows less than nothing about mental illness and addiction.

Artificial general intelligence is not inevitable. My latest for The Guardian challenges one of the most popular claims made about AGI. Among those who believe AGI is possible, it's common to think it's unstoppable, whether you're excited or terrified of the prospect 🧵

We conducted a study on 3691 people to empirically test 40 claims about IQ (including claims made in academia and by the general public)! Here are some of our most important findings (see the link at the bottom of this thread for all 40 results): 🧵

Best reason to have kids on the younger side is you mature faster. You think you’re “getting on top of” things before having kids, but you’re just refusing to advance. Then you start at 36 and realize you’re not clever in fact it’s like you were left behind 10 grades at school.

Navy SEALs gearing up for combat operations: 'Slow is smooth; smooth is fast' Parents getting wiggly toddlers ready for swim lessons: 'Hooyah'

Leftist Blank Slate ideologues: 'OMG how dare American Eagle advertise great jeans by alluding to great genes' Nature: 'Let's spend 540 million years evolving incredible adaptive complexity, biodiversity, creativity, & beauty through sexual selection for great genes'

Evolutionary psychologist Professor Geoffrey Miller says he thinks there's a 50% chance that AI will lead to disaster. The main way he sees this happening is that we get into an AI arms race and superintelligence is built without us having any idea how to control or align it.

Birth rates are crashing, especially in the developed world. Just how screwed are we? Here's my interview with economics professor Dean Spears on the fertility crisis. If you like living in an advanced civilization, watch this. Chapters: 0:22 - Introduction to the Fertility Crisis 4:12 - Why Over-Population Isn’t A Thing 11:17 - What’s Causing It? 16:03 - Role of Social Trends 18:20 - Role of Toxins on Infertility 23:10 - Impact on Environment 28:56 - Other Planetary Boundaries 32:28 - Paul Erlich and Zero-Sum Thinking 36:25 - Can’t AI & Robots Fill The Economic Gap? 42:58 - Historical Strategies That Grew Population 48:40 - Impact of Contraception 52:57 - Which Sub-Populations Are Bucking The Trend 57:37 - How To Help Women Have Careers And Babies 59:56 - The Issues of A Heavily Elderly Population 1:05:13 - Examples of Successful Incentives 1:09:07 - More AI Stuff 1:17:47 - Opportunity Cost Hypothesis 1:22:28 - Won’t People Just Adapt? 1:27:55 - COVID-19 And Fertility Rate 1:29:17 - Family Size Distributions 1:34:31 - Research on Declining Intimacy