I’m a little surprised that Eliezer was not able (or willing?) to correctly guess who would be extremely interested in genetic differences between Ashkenazi jews and American gentile whites.
Surely somebody as smart as Eliezer (and who spends a lot of time online) is aware that there is lots of racism/anti-semitism online.
ETA: By the way, I really enjoyed listening to the discussion.
Due to the Ashkenazi “superiority” in terms of IQ when compared to gentile whites, white supremacists would not have struck me too as an obvious first guess.
This was a survey of ancestry/genetic structure. Not trait values. Here is the post, just page down to the image and you can see why they were interested:
This was the most difficult diavlog of the seven I’ve done so far. 60 minutes just wasn’t enough for this conversation and I had to do a lot of on-the-fly judgment of what I should elaborate on, and what I should simplify or elide for the sake of concision. The others were more “interview” formats where there was a more formal structure, as opposed to riffs. Also, Eliezer and a subset of the audience knows a fair amount of biology, but the majority of the audience did not, so I kept having to navigate between these two tensions.
I assume Eliezer had similar issues when we got the section where Kahneman & Tversky’s ouvre were implicit background assumptions, but we’d burned through 2⁄3 of the time by then so the choice on whether to elucidate or not was made for him :-)
I’m a little surprised that Eliezer was not able (or willing?) to correctly guess who would be extremely interested in genetic differences between Ashkenazi jews and American gentile whites.
Surely somebody as smart as Eliezer (and who spends a lot of time online) is aware that there is lots of racism/anti-semitism online.
ETA: By the way, I really enjoyed listening to the discussion.
Due to the Ashkenazi “superiority” in terms of IQ when compared to gentile whites, white supremacists would not have struck me too as an obvious first guess.
This was a survey of ancestry/genetic structure. Not trait values. Here is the post, just page down to the image and you can see why they were interested:
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/01/how_ashkenazi_jewish_are_you.php
Got it. Makes more sense with the data. I guess in the flow of conversation, we do tend to miss a couple of things :)
This was the most difficult diavlog of the seven I’ve done so far. 60 minutes just wasn’t enough for this conversation and I had to do a lot of on-the-fly judgment of what I should elaborate on, and what I should simplify or elide for the sake of concision. The others were more “interview” formats where there was a more formal structure, as opposed to riffs. Also, Eliezer and a subset of the audience knows a fair amount of biology, but the majority of the audience did not, so I kept having to navigate between these two tensions.
I assume Eliezer had similar issues when we got the section where Kahneman & Tversky’s ouvre were implicit background assumptions, but we’d burned through 2⁄3 of the time by then so the choice on whether to elucidate or not was made for him :-)