[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

[SR Ballard]

You’re just being uptight because the conclusion makes you uncomfortable.

SR Ballard

> On Jan 20, 2021, at 3:02 PM, Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>>> On 20 Jan 2021, at 16:09, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
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>>>> Could you explain the mechanism?
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>>>> ### People stick together with their own relatives. On a larger scale,
>>> cohesive social structures emerge among people sharing culture, which
>>> usually comes from shared ancestry, which implies shared genes. Different
>>> social structures coalesce out of genetically different populations, so
>>> different social groups will differ in their language, culture and yes,
>>> also intelligence.
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>> Drawing map lines helps here but is not necessary.
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> Ok, so it’s not maps….    Damn, I was just about to gerrymander myself a map with all the sexy, smart, and rich people as a means of self improvement. (Which is the real purpose of gated communities actually.)
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>> It’s the reproductive isolation that matters, which is why the Parsees, the
>> Brahmin jatis and the Ashkenazim are smarter than their surrounding
>> populations.
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> So it’s not maps, but it IS RACISM, ok gotcha. (Even if you sugar coat it by saying some minorities are BETTER…well…it’s still racism.)
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>> We could argue whether such diversity is good, or bad, or just unavoidable,
>> but the brute fact that the diversity of IQ exists should be just accepted.
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>> Rafal
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> Diversity of <characteristic> exists between individuals, and diversity of <characteristic> exists between the average of one group and the average of another. What’s important is how you define the group and a racial definition is laughable.
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> Omar
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