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Okay, I'll play one last round.

Why would the cold weather hypothesis be a theory that only goes back 200 hundred years as you claim? Just looked at some of the papers on the topic and it's tracking the human migration out of Africa and tracking when the first tools of various types were found and when. In more modern time the Norman invasion of France is about 1000 years ago, followed by England, not to mention the harsh conditions the Mongols were under (-40c degree winters) for about 3k years before conquering China - seems that led to a good bit of genetic spread.

Seems you're arguing that there are no differences between IQ in populations regardless of immigration patterns/conflict/harshness of the environment? If that's your claim please state it. My claim is that there are observable differences in populations of people, that are observable in the prosperity of regions and cultures, that are visible between nations and cultures, and that IQ distribution is highly likely to be root cause - or as close as we'll come to measuring the driving cause successfully. Evolutionary forces likely drove those observable differences.

It is simply an area that is taboo to research in depth because of how uncomfortable it makes folks whose morality is tied up in some form of cosmic equality/equity.

More over, I think it's imperative we study this vigorously and find truths no matter how uncomfortable that is for segments of society - particularly if we want to find interventions that work to better everyone's lot in society. Otherwise you'll spend lives and treasure to make no meaningful improvements to the conditions of people country/culture.

There aren't many Ashkenazi Jewish sprinters in the Olympics, is it so far fetched to believe that there might be more than sprinting ability differences between populations? Should these differences not be studied to better understand and improve society?

Do you have alternative hypotheses for observed differences in civilization outcomes and average intelligence between groups? I think this is important to take seriously and investigate as poverty rates seem to line up with population's IQ, which lines up with rates of violent crime. At least here in US based on FBI crime stats/Federal data on poverty rates.

We could attempt to argue that all groups of people have identical capabilities (IQ bell curves), and only environmental factors (lead in paint/poor early nutrition, etc) are the cause of all observed differences/life outcomes. But that would just ignore real world observations and 50+ years of failed interventions to normalize all groups in the U.S.

Also: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i... We can quibble on the accuracy of all the data, but generally we should likely take it as directionally correct.

It will be interesting to see if China maintains it lead with it's likely on going demographic collapse and how heavily the one child policy skewed abortion rates in parts of the population/pushed high degrees of educational investment.

Also likely won't matter too long now that we've begun outsourcing our thinking, battlefield decision-making, math, science and coding to LLMs. Doubt most of us will recognize what a "human" looks like in 100-200 years of genetic interventions/merging with machines/etc - should anything identifiable as a human last that long. Or some may, but they won’t be where the action is in economic/scientific terms. So no worries if noticing differences between populations conflicts with your moral belief structure. Give it time.

Assuming all humans and populations of humans are interchangeable parts. We are not. Not so much "race" - which is a fairly idiotic concept as it's applied -- but hereditarianism is very much a real thing. IQ equates with life outcomes and is highly heritable. How people migrate (or are forced to migrate) can help you understand a population and population differences. Nigerians who immigrate to the U.S. now do far better than populations that were brought over during chattel slavery. Likely those who were captured by their neighbors and sold to European slavers had to lose battles of some variety. Selection effect. There are also documented differences between native populations in regions. Things like the harsh winter hypothesis pose that harsher environments lead to higher IQs. Otherwise, why doesn't every country look like Japan? If we don't diagnose the real problems societal interventions will fail to help anyone in a lasting/meaningful way.

having worked on AOSP for 3 years. I can attest most developers are capable but are not incentivized correctly. The appearance of improvement (demo quality code) is good enough in many circles to "complete" a project and move on. Net effect - the tragedy of the commons. Compound over a decade and 10-20 minute builds and 5-10 minute test time is the norm, and at that point even properly motivated - "would die for clean code" - sort of devs have a hard time. Put in place completing management chains all behaving the same (want to appear more productive/useful than others) and the mess is very hard to get out of. People were allowed/encouraged to cut corners I would let a junior dev cut on any project (duplicating resources from different parts of the build), building tool that demanded duplicate configuration, etc. Not a problem of capability (in some cases, yes, but rare), a broken selfish set of senior devs and leadership. Likely because it's not in google's interests for the project to be easy to work with/productive on. Open source washing was useful early on, now it's something of a liability. Only data gathered from devices and a little bit of cash from the play store are assets.