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Psychedelics are incredible tools whose significance lies in their ability to catalyze the power of the human mind for healing, creativity, and spiritual consciousness.
This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press.
The message is loud and clear: sugar is bad, government regulation is good, and now we have the science to prove it.
What Google needs to do is to tailor its diversity policies towards the men and women who work at Google.
The message that liberates women is not: men and women are the same, and anyone who tells you different is oppressing you.
Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both.
With the very real possibility that such technology will be able to make changes to itself, even a slight diversion from goals that match our own could be disastrous.
The clearest evidence for this lack of a distinction is the fact that most individuals are cisgender (individuals whose gender identity aligns with their biological sex).
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post.
Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth of software packages that can readily analyse data and output the results of complex statistical tests.