tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8213131981137328615..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: 2013 iSteve blog stats: 13,526,540 minutes viewedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25831519145018828072014-01-07T04:52:54.078-08:002014-01-07T04:52:54.078-08:00Steve:
"At 91 full-time-equivalents, I'm...Steve:<br /><br />"At 91 full-time-equivalents, I'm probably using up $5 or $10 million per year of your time."<br /><br />To paraphrase the sage response to Mr Hand, if I'm reading it, and you're writing it, then doesn't that make it *our* time?DWBuddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12955276932812880108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24107595762109980982014-01-07T01:11:34.290-08:002014-01-07T01:11:34.290-08:00BREAKDOWN BY COUNTRIES!!!
Please.BREAKDOWN BY COUNTRIES!!!<br /><br />Please.Lexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47718768484814471092014-01-05T22:17:57.754-08:002014-01-05T22:17:57.754-08:00I find that hbd ideas have made me much more recep...I find that hbd ideas have made me much more receptive to social programs and charity for the folks on the bottom. To a large extent, they're on the bottom because they aren't very bright or they have some kind of mental illness or addiction. All three of those are largely genetic, perhaps with a small component of peoples' choices. (Addiction stems from a choice to start drinking or smoking or using drugs, but once you're hooked, quitting looks to be hard enough that nobody has much of a good way to do it, and that most people who try seem to fail.)<br /><br /><br />NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79089494091721032662014-01-05T20:54:51.981-08:002014-01-05T20:54:51.981-08:00>Implicit in blank slatism - if everyone is equ...>Implicit in blank slatism - if everyone is equal, [if] there are no mental differences, then success is just a matter of work ethic<<br /><br />I've always thought that the advocacy of the more extreme theories of "free will" is a cowardly (i.e., psychological) form of aggression. Behind the decrying of "the bigotry of soft expectations" is sometimes (not always) the desire to crow about one's own supposed moral rectitude, and posture in the glow thereof.<br /><br />Nature/Nurture is very possibly 50/50, so it behooves both sides to keep it in mind. To put the point more bluntly: 50% of one's endowment may not be due to one's moral superiority.Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32769888813485387312014-01-05T18:49:34.544-08:002014-01-05T18:49:34.544-08:00When you read the comments at the Daily Mail on Ni...When you read the comments at the Daily Mail on Nigel Farage saying that Enoch was basically right - <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534353/Basic-principle-Enochs-Rivers-Blood-speech-right-says-Nigel-Farage.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> - you can see how far we've come in such a scant time. One wonders by how much time this revolution has been advanced by Sailer et al. An idea whose time has come? Partly that perhaps, but without someone to deconstruct a lot of the (and I use the term generously) "intellectual" framework behind the pro-immigrationist push and construct a competing one, it would have taken longer I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88348555043543882762014-01-05T17:25:21.351-08:002014-01-05T17:25:21.351-08:00Paradoxical though it may sound, this (and HBD gen...<i>Paradoxical though it may sound, this (and HBD generally) has made me more tolerant of differences in intelligence generally, or less of an implicit scold.</i><br /><br />Very true for me as well. It helps to be able to understand where one fits in life and in the ability continuum. Only when you can understand your relative strengths and weaknesses can you figure out where you have your advantages relatives to others and act appropriately. And for those who are less intellectually endowed, it stops the unfair criticism that they are just lazy, even if not stated explicitly.<br /><br />People who do not understand bell curves, HBD and the like are apt to repeat the mistake of the Peter Principle - that everyone reaches the level of their own incompetence. Implicit in blank slatism - if everyone is equal, there are no mental differences, then success is just a matter of work ethic, motivation and education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35274052254027575912014-01-05T12:33:47.291-08:002014-01-05T12:33:47.291-08:00The Gulen article on Taki was absolutely brilliant...<i>The Gulen article on Taki was absolutely brilliant. </i><br /><br />Yeah, I forget whether I said so on the specific thread. It was brilliant. I felt like a satisfied junkie at the end.JeremiahJohnbalayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37023567481777248042014-01-05T12:00:35.627-08:002014-01-05T12:00:35.627-08:00"Anonymous of 1/4/14, 6:57 PM said...
Someti..."Anonymous of 1/4/14, 6:57 PM said...<br /><br />Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault."<br /><br />Trying to prove that all their problems are someone else's fault.......sounds like the ADL's playbook.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69939846950140585902014-01-05T10:53:29.192-08:002014-01-05T10:53:29.192-08:00Politics makes for uncomfortable alliances, for as...Politics makes for uncomfortable alliances, for associating with and getting support from people you really dislike. And one of the most powerful weapons the supporters of current mainstream views have to silence criticism is the facts that:<br /><br />a. All political organization involves building coalitions and making common cause with people with whom you have some fundamental disagreements on other issues. (Think of the antiwar movement.). <br /><br />b. The more mainstream a view is, the less weird and crazy and evil it sounds, even when it's batshit nuts and genuinely nasty as hell. (Think of the stuff that became mainstream policy in te war on terror.). This is largely an effect of familiarity--monstrous or crazy things that you hear repeated a lot start seeming less monstrous or crazy. <br /><br />The combination of these two makes it easy to attack any coalition that opposes the mainstream respectable view. How dare you oppose the war in Iraq--see these dirty hippies you're siding with? How dare you oppose more immigration--see these racist rednecks you're siding with. <br /><br />There was a hell of a lot of ink spilled in the last election on trying to discredit Ron Paul from the left. The purpose wasn't to argue about issues where RP disagrees with most everyone on the left, it was to make it uncomfortable for potential Democratic voters to make common cause with Paul's supporters on issues like the war on terror, or the bailouts, on which the mainstream Democrats are pretty much indistinguishable from the mainstream Republicans. <br /><br />Mainstream politicians make common cause with nauseating people all the time. We are close allies with <i>Saudi Arabia</i>. Prominent Democrats will happily cosponsor legislation with people who think we should torture prisoners, or who think Muslims shouldn't have religious freedom. <br /><br />My impression is that a huge fraction of partisan media is about preventing people on your side from making common cause with outsiders. Make sure the Tea Partiers are all portrayed as lower class trailer trash, racist and sexist and stupid. Make sure the Occupy types are all portrayed as doped-up unemployable losers who want to impose some kind of socialism. Make sure the antiwar people look like America hating smelly hippies. Because otherwise, someone on your side might start thinking "Wait, how exactly *does* granting more H1B visas help me get a job so I can get off my mom' couch?"<br /><br /><br />NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59859300107124816902014-01-05T10:25:53.940-08:002014-01-05T10:25:53.940-08:00Don't feed...don't feed...trolls...can'...Don't feed...don't feed...trolls...can't stop..worse than addiction to cheap vodka, graphic novels, and downton abbey...<br /><br />"Awesome. You stayed on paleocon message. Now enjoy your little ghetto, and whining about how everyone else is too stupid and sheep like to understand how awesome you are."<br /><br />Come on in. The ghetto is nice this time a year. <br /><br />"Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault."<br /><br />Hmmm...most of the commentators here evince a Pelagian view of free will as opposed to an Augustinan one with its requirement of grace; so I do not think that is a fair statement. Your clarity of thought and PC conviction seems particularly Donatist. <br /><br />Anyway - the next time the <i>auto-da-fe </i>in town perhaps you should prevail on the Dominicans to round up the usual iSteve subjects, put them to the question and, if they refuse to recant, have them burned as heretics. <br /><br />Then, and only then, I am sure, Steve's blog stats would shoot through the roof; his articles would be inundated by admiring comments of Slate, Salon, and NPR types who agreed with him all along, you see, but since Whiskey rubbed them the wrong way stayed away, but now they are telling ALL their friends they just MUST, MUST read iSteve. In addition, Steve would be hired to replace David Brooks at the NYT and get his own MSNBC show called "Let's not kill the Boer!" In a surprising move, he would narrate the smash hit PBS documentary "Paul Walker: The Saint of Valencia" and finally get around to doing a review of "Pacific Rim", driving the sale of "Gipsy Danger" figurines through the roof.Just Another Guy With a 1911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10892842284503329872014-01-05T09:30:34.961-08:002014-01-05T09:30:34.961-08:00Steve, I really appreciate everything you do. Kee...Steve, I really appreciate everything you do. Keep up the good work and keep fighting. For now, I suppose most people live by the lies they have been fed, despite what must be migraine inducting levels of cognitive dissonance, but revolutions are often a surprise until after the fact when they seem inevitable.As my favorite middlebrow alt-rock band once observed "everything sticks, everything sticks, everything sticks like a broken record, everything sticks until it goes away..." <br /><br />And to quote my favorite middle-brow journalist-cum-author:<br /><br />"One solitary person, with clarity, single-mindedness, energy and will can thrust his shoulders against the hinge of history, shift the equipoise, and thus accomplish the work of multitudes."<br /><br />Johnson, Paul, "A History of the English People", London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1985), pg. 50.Just Another Guy With a 1911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62698510779271546142014-01-05T04:38:05.381-08:002014-01-05T04:38:05.381-08:0010,000? [Me plus Svigor.]
Au Contraire, Steve has...<i>10,000? [Me plus Svigor.]</i><br /><br />Au Contraire, Steve has largely tamed the Svig-monster. I hardly have anything fail to show up any more. Or maybe I've tamed Steve? Hey, we tamed each other! Group hug.<br /><br /><i>If only ol' Steve got noticed, the whole world would beat a path to his door… with pitchforks and torches.</i><br /><br />Hahaha, that was truly LOL-funny.<br /><br /><i>There is another reason. Many smart, high IQ people are uncomfortable with the plainly racist comments. You are not a racist but some of those commenting here seem to be.<br /><br />Let me make a strong assertion: the people making openly racist comments on your blog just aren't very smart. Very smart people tend to be more thoughtful on this subject. Even if smart people agree with the HBD thesis, they don't agree this means *individuals* should be put down on racial terms. At the very least, it drives away your traffic.</i><br /><br />Racists of the online variety tend to be smarter than the average. There's a whole discussion to be had here, but thinking for yourself and ignoring the popular religion tend to be the domain of the smarter-than-average.<br /><br /><i>"Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault."</i><br /><br />Does it make me a bad person that I would rather be racist, sexist, homophobic, and "ANTI-SEMITIC!!!" than someone who has to lean on logical fallacies (here, argumentum ad hominem)?Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67404936278018010942014-01-05T04:12:30.761-08:002014-01-05T04:12:30.761-08:00"Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist..."Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault."<br /><br />I just had a vision of a Bolshevik Commissar telling a Kulak that during the Holodomor: "You're a racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequate trying to prove to yourself that your problems are someone else's fault." Simon in Londonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11746840360700492732014-01-05T02:29:18.610-08:002014-01-05T02:29:18.610-08:00If only ol' Steve got noticed, the whole world...If only ol' Steve got noticed, the whole world would beat a path to his door… with pitchforks and torches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74508942436203153302014-01-05T01:57:57.587-08:002014-01-05T01:57:57.587-08:00"Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist..."Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault."<br /><br />lol did you wander here from SPLC HQ?Udolpho.comhttp://mpcdot.com/forums/topic/7616-dark-enlightenment-meets-snark-enlightenmentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65524657210931632332014-01-05T00:09:07.817-08:002014-01-05T00:09:07.817-08:00>Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, ...>Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault.<<br /><br />Congratulations, you stayed on message. Now run al ... YAWN .. ong.Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85418351151923808992014-01-04T21:28:41.661-08:002014-01-04T21:28:41.661-08:00My educated guess is that $10 each would total a s...My educated guess is that $10 each would total a substantial increase over his current takeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5552909424257303382014-01-04T20:54:59.104-08:002014-01-04T20:54:59.104-08:00I love your blog Mr. Sailer. Keep up the great wor...I love your blog Mr. Sailer. Keep up the great work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50273114863064777902014-01-04T20:07:15.481-08:002014-01-04T20:07:15.481-08:00"$100 wouldn't be a big burden for each o..."$100 wouldn't be a big burden for each of them, while it would make you a millionaire."<br /><br />I assumed said guy would be a millionaire. Clever marketing guy and all that. But deserving of $100 or so. Not fair to provide content gratis for intellectual stimuli junkies...ahem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86201952978420044722014-01-04T18:57:34.507-08:002014-01-04T18:57:34.507-08:00NOTA said...
Anon 10:05:
The cognitive elite is ....NOTA said...<br />Anon 10:05:<br /><br />The cognitive elite is . Is it the half or so of the population that reads a book at least once a year, or the tiny fraction who will ever advance scientific knowledge or build anything new in their lives? <br /><br />1/4/14, 6:07 PM<br /><br />=============================<br /><br /><br />Murray seems to define the cognitive elite as being the bestest and brightest. (Unless I'm very much mistaken, which is very much possible.) Not quite the tiny fraction who'll do something truly mind blowing and innovative, but the new thought/business/political/whatever leaders. <br /><br />And Murray, at least in "The Bell Curve" and "Real Education" (not so much in "Coming Apart", though) likes to flatter the readers by claiming that if you're reading, you're just so, so, utterly clever that even the people you think are stupid are actually well above average. A lot of the time reading him, I can hear the chortles of every teacher I've ever had.<br /><br />This, actually, might explain why the HBD side of things isn't publicly catching on, no matter how much people might believe it in private and act on those beliefs. As other commenters have touched upon here, a lot of the commenters are spectacularly unpleasant. Sometimes it can seem like a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti Semitic inadequates trying to prove to themselves that all their problems are someone else's fault. And that's unfair both to Steve and to the vast bulk of his readers, but it's not helpful. And it's not helpful to see said unpleasant types fellating themselves over how wonderfully smart they are, especially compared to those awful, awful proles. (There's a lot of overlap between the two groups.) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63694988320273222592014-01-04T18:45:37.902-08:002014-01-04T18:45:37.902-08:00NOTA, true. Only my own limitations first convince...NOTA, true. Only my own limitations first convinced me of the at least equal importance of Nature (as against Nurture). Prior to reading and meeting peers much smarter than me, I tended to ascribe dumbness wholly to morals. That is, a dumb person "just isn't trying." After encountering some supernova-bright sorts, I realized I couldn't get up there no matter how conscientious I was. I was trying but was (by comparison) D-U-M. I saw only then that sheer mental capacity just is not evenly distributed. Paradoxical though it may sound, this (and HBD generally) has made me more tolerant of differences in intelligence generally, or less of an implicit scold.Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25192794902840422612014-01-04T18:07:39.511-08:002014-01-04T18:07:39.511-08:00Anon 10:05:
The cognitive elite is . Is it the h...Anon 10:05:<br /><br />The cognitive elite is . Is it the half or so of the population that reads a book at least once a year, or the tiny fraction who will ever advance scientific knowledge or build anything new in their lives? Further, the smarter and more intellectually curious you are, the more likely you are to know of a lot of stuff you don't understand too well, to have studied some stuff that seemed very hard to get, to have met people who just seemed smarter than you, etc. <br /><br />Only half the population reads a book per year when they're not required to for school or work or something. Readers of Malcolm Gladwell and listeners of NPR are a plausible definition of the cognitive elite, even though they're not all that impressive in a lot of ways. Most people aren't bright and curious enough to even listen to NPR or read Malcolm Gladwell, or for that matter to read Steve Sailer and get much out of it, NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55435136733166682912014-01-04T16:07:08.051-08:002014-01-04T16:07:08.051-08:00Sailer's writings are philosophical, courageou...Sailer's writings are philosophical, courageous, and funny, which makes for a potent--and rare--combination.<br /><br />wiseguyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40168398244584463422014-01-04T16:06:14.614-08:002014-01-04T16:06:14.614-08:00Yesterday I went off to Wikipedia looking up Danie...<i>Yesterday I went off to Wikipedia looking up Daniel Defoe based on some iSteve remark. One reference led to another and I was lost in 18th century history for hours. I wonder if this time is counted?</i><br /><br />Hey, I do this too. And I also googled Daniel Defoe and read the wikipedia article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22958138480542109092014-01-04T15:59:53.083-08:002014-01-04T15:59:53.083-08:00* Correction. "marketing assumptions made by ...* Correction. "marketing assumptions made by others" (not by Steve). Didn't mean to come across as rude.<br /><br />I REALLY want to see that book.Davidhttp://david-passingparade3.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com