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New comment by peanutcrisis in "Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study"

peanutcrisis — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:42:30 +0000

Great, I didn't know we can dismiss evidence without justifying why. The author claims that there is politicization by ideologues, and the evidence he provided flats out suggests that. If anything, the disagreement seems to be the extent or areas where it's actually happening, which is the point I'm trying to make, which you have not engaged with. I'm frankly puzzled by all my (past) interactions with you. It seems we agree a lot in some way or another yet somehow, you always come across as bad faith to me. That's why when you eventually conceded to one of our past discussions, I decided it was no longer worth engaging. I thought Hacker News is a place for reasoned discussion, I guess I'm wrong to come back to it.

New comment by peanutcrisis in "Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study"

peanutcrisis — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:09:45 +0000

Are you just going to outright dismiss the evidence I provided earlier for this politicization? As I explained before, your point is perfectly compatible with his. If you’re able to follow this kind of research, I’m frankly baffled by your inability to grasp the idea that acknowledging attempts to politicize this topic doesn’t imply that research in the area can’t proceed. The evidence for politicization is all over the editorials in your major research journals. If research in this area is booming as you’ve described (I don’t follow this research), all that means is that the politicization attempts have been unsuccessful.

As for your mind reading about the author’s intent, he is, to the best of my understanding, a standard-issue liberal. As such, I don't really get where you're coming from with this.

New comment by peanutcrisis in "Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study"

peanutcrisis — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:54:31 +0000

He isn't saying there isn't such research being done, he's criticizing the attempts made by ideologues to discredit and discourage research along such premises.

Did you even bother to read the piece? He explicitly opens his fifth point with an example of The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) weaponizing its reputation to do precisely just that. He documented another instance of this in Nature recently as well [0]. If you look at the top subthread here too, Nature Human Behaviour is doing this as well.

Given all that, it seems he's right that the problem with ideologues exists. The success or lack thereof of these ideologues is a separate matter. Your claim that such research still exists doesn't negate the problem he identified. If anything, I don't think we should be comfortable with any kind of intentional distortions to the biology of race and ethnicity. The bad (false) PR could come back and bite, affecting the research and how it might be received. Otherwise, I don't really see any real disagreement here.

[0] https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/05/11/nature-tackles-rac...

New comment by peanutcrisis in "Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study"

peanutcrisis — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:17:20 +0000

The notion of race and ethnicity in biology has been politicised by ideology. Jerry Coyne and Luana Maroja clarifies this in point five of their piece [0] in the Skeptical Inquirer.

[0] https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-ideological-subver...

Evolvability [pdf]

peanutcrisis — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:39:33 +0000

Article URL: https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~valiant/evolvability-2008.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43746708

Points: 2

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New comment by peanutcrisis in "Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History"

peanutcrisis — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:43:29 +0000

You asked for "citations", the thread is literally filled with references to them. How is it not bad faith to have to prove to you things that you can easily check for yourself?

New comment by peanutcrisis in "Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History"

peanutcrisis — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:30:47 +0000

Don't act in bad faith, the entirety of this thread is filled with examples.

New comment by peanutcrisis in "Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History"

peanutcrisis — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:17:59 +0000

Should the work of women be on that list for the sole reason that they are women? There are many more men who have written papers far influential than the ones you've mentioned yet they didn't make the list. If you believe in equality, then you have to believe that the work of people who happen to be women can compete on their own merit. The absence of women in that list isn't necessarily evidence of bias as implied in your remark.

Why I Am Not a PhD

peanutcrisis — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:19:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-am-not-a-phd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926553

Points: 8

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Cognitive Distortions (2022)

peanutcrisis — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:37:56 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2022/07/18/cognitive-distortions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41093936

Points: 4

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Myth of Man the Hunter: Women's hunt contribution across ethnographic contexts

peanutcrisis — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650604

Points: 4

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New comment by peanutcrisis in "My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity"

peanutcrisis — Tue, 28 May 2024 13:52:23 +0000

This makes me wonder if there is a relationship between cardiac surgery and personality changes. I remember reading something similar about Lee Holloway[0].

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline...

BIOL 104: Principles of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

peanutcrisis — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:47:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1788582154277921256

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310116

Points: 1

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New comment by peanutcrisis in "Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus"

peanutcrisis — Wed, 01 May 2024 22:37:34 +0000

https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...

New comment by peanutcrisis in "Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends"

peanutcrisis — Wed, 01 May 2024 22:25:14 +0000

Relevant read:

https://unherd.com/2024/04/inside-the-disinformation-industr...

Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real [pdf]

peanutcrisis — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.23.581721v1.full.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39885074

Points: 1

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The Journal Cell Endorses The View That Sex Isn't Binary

peanutcrisis — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:36:07 +0000

Article URL: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/03/17/the-journal-cell-endorses-the-view-that-sex-isnt-binary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735650

Points: 3

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Adam Grant vs. Coleman Hughes, Part 2

peanutcrisis — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:05:25 +0000

Article URL: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/adam-grant-vs-coleman-hughes-part

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231981

Points: 1

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New comment by peanutcrisis in "The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview"

peanutcrisis — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:22:57 +0000

If they are qualified, shouldn't they be able to compete fairly with the rest of the applicant pool? I think this scenario should only be a cause for concern if people are being passed on for anything other than their competency, such as race.

New comment by peanutcrisis in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

peanutcrisis — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:05:59 +0000

I think that's in part because the sources that were once credible, i.e. NGOs, universities, media, and other cultural institutions, have taken a hit to their own reputation as a result of their institutional capture over the years.

For every article you can find in support of one camp, one could find a counter piece from other credible sources as well (i.e. NYT vs The Economist and The Atlantic). For every NGO one can quote, someone else can quote from someone who've resigned, or once run/founded the very NGO that they're now criticizing (i.e. Danielle Haas, Ira Glasser, Nadine Strossen, Bob Bernstein). You can even pitch the NGOs against one another, such as HRW and Amnesty against the ADL.

Ultimately, bad faith actors are indeed the root cause of the problem. However, I think the bigger problem here is the inability of these bad faith actors to recognize that belong to the very group they're criticizing. If facts were all that mattered, I would expect to see more people expressing more nuanced takes, or express more uncertainty. After all, it would be rather surprising for a consumer of news to hold their view with that much confidence when even the mainstream sources they are relying on is in dispute with one another.