As some of you may have noticed, my last post was waypalled. I’ll be paywalling posts every once in a while from now because I am a student who has to pay for school, and the job I have to do sucks up time. As a pitch as to why my substack might be worth subscribing to, here I will explain the details of how subscriptions are to be priced as well as the details of what my plans are, what my project is, and what content I have in the works:
Navigation:
-Pricing Details
-Planned Content
—Chapter On Statistics —The Existence Of Race
—Academia —Race & IQ
—The g Factor —Misc
—White Privilege
-Shameless E Begging
I’ll complete everything on the planned content list regardless of how long it takes and regardless of whether or not I have to personally fund it, and when that happens I’ll drop all the paywalls. The hope is that the presence of the paywalls can help make that happen faster. When, within the decade the project is complete, I don’t intend to remain a mere researcher forever. When that happens, I intend to start a hedge fund as a base from which to begin the process of conquering corporate America.
This will be the first place I've really outlined my general vision publicly and not just in private chats. Here's some personal history. One day, I was looking around on this communist discord server called "The Socialist Documents" which aspired to be a central reposity for all the arguments they saw as relevant to their ideology (looking back, it was mostly really just an attempt to deboonk 100+ different genocides that the average person probably wouldn't even know to try to beat them over the head with). Upon seeing it, the idea occurred to me, "hey, I should make the racist version of this!" Since the old days however, my project has evolved.
First, it was just a tree of folders and sub-folders with some archives of studies and .png files explaining some topics. Then, I figured out that I could add better internal navigation if it became a pdf, and hence, The Secrets Of The Cakes was born:
The idea of this whole theme was to keep it rather innocuous so that a new reader could not really guess what it was about, and digest the tamer topics at the start before moving on to later things which build upon them. Apologies for the cringe, I was quite young at the time.
Later, as the project expanded, I figured I’d put a more serious face on it, and I renamed it to HBD At Light Speed:
The pdf of this iteration is still accessible here: https://not-equal.org/HBDAtLightSpeed.pdf
Now, I’ve been heavily reorganizing the content behind the scenes, and when it’s finally published, it’ll be under a new title:
With this new iteration, the aim has fundamentally shifted. Content will be organized according to how closely pieces of information are related rather than according to how offputing it may be to a reader. Persuasion is no longer the aim of the text, as that’s not where public opinion comes from (I have a post about this in the works!). If I continue to get fan mail from people who have been persuaded by it, that will be a welcome side effect, but that is by no means the primary purpose.
The book is in a stage of some major typographical reformatting which isn’t very easy on the eyes in such a state which is why nobody’s seen any changes in the public version for a while. Any planned content I’ve crossed off the list as having been completed which aren’t publicly available are in there.
If not to persuade then, just what is the primary purpose of the text? Well, what functional relevance does ideology have to power? A shared vision is a mechanism around which an elite network can organize nepotism. The intention is to create a text like the Bible or the Communist Manifesto so as to be such a mechanism. The aim is to create something to instil in this elite a sense of who they are and what they’ve accomplished, and to set them upon the right path to do something to address the dangers they face.
On that note, am I a scientist or an ideologue? If a researcher comes up with a standard for whether or not smoking causes cancer and then collects the data neccessary to answer the question, should the results of running that test not inform his policy preferences? I believe in the standards I give for how I judge whether something is true. I brainstorm as to how something might be tested, and then I search the literature to see if anybody else has thought of the same thing, and occasionally, I do my own tests. I’ve posted my fair share of results I hypothesized to turn out the other way around (Most recently, my contribution to Bronski’s recent post https://josephbronski.substack.com/p/against-status-feedback-loops-an ), and I cover all of the relevant work regarding all lines of evidence I can think of, and I have the receipts for everything (over 1000 of them if you check the source list of the book). I also break from the party line of my peers on some issues; I’m not religious, and I have much less extreme views on women. In fact, I intend to do a post on things regarding sex differences that the mainstream is correct about just to purge any morons that may have accrued in my audience. Something a friend of mine told me which has stuck with me is that ‘the intellectual bankruptcy of many ideologues doesn’t come from placing too much value on ideology, but from placing insufficient value on scholarship).
The great questions of the day are not to be decided by debate and majority resolutions, but by organizational competence; by doing work and completing projects.
Pricing Explanation:
-Base monthly price: $13.50
-Yearly price: $100 (38% cheaper than monthly)
-Founding member price: $420/year
-Group purchase discount: 34%
-Weekly trial subscriptions enabled
-Custom prices above the minimum enabled
For the next three months (this offer expires april 17th 2023), there will also be a temporary discount where the monthly price will be only $5.00 (63% off) for the next 12 months. I set this offer to be available to “anyone who subscribes”, so if you don’t see it anywhere, try unsubscribing and re-subscribing.
If you personally know me from anywhere or if you’re a high profile researcher / content creator, email me at wehrkatzer@gmail.com, tell me who you are (you don’t have to dox yourself), and I’ll probably give you a free subscription.
Planned Content:
Key:
-This means not started.
-*This means partially complete.-This means completely finished.
-This is a primary item.
—This is a subsidiary item to the primary one above.
Chapter on statistics:
-*binomial probability explained
-*covariance algebra explained + proofs
-*logic behind formulas for correlation + semipartials + multiple regression explained intuitively
—*useful ways of interpreting the results of these things given, intuitively explained, and proven formally/analytically
-*ballparking the p-value of any algebraic combination of correlation coefficients with known significance
—*tutorials for calculating specific p-values for specific combinations of correlations (semi-partials & the difference between two correlations)-test reliability + how to correct for it + innovation in calculating it explained
-*how to correct results for range restriction + logic behind formula explained
-review of linear algebra & calculus
-*PCA + factor analysis + factor rotation + specific methods of each explained
-*new oblique method of factor rotation: explanation + R code
-path analysis + SEM explained
-item response theory explained
Academia:
-*contribution to dysgenics-expert opinion on heriditarianism
-*teen brain meme
-*list of dumb popsci memes produced by academia + refutations
—&school popsci——emotional intelligence
——multiple intelligences
——*growth mindset theory
——*grit
——*brain training
——learning styles—lefty popsci
——stereotype threat
——implicit bias training doesn’t affect behaviour
——implicit associations test doesn’t reflect behaviour
—*You should amputate body parts——wisdom teeth removal
——lobotomies
——tonsil removal——foreskin removal
—*I fucking love science——the general social/psychological ‘priming’ literature
——stanford prison experiment
——milgram experiment
——*dunning kruger effect misinterpreted——the mere exposure effect
——the bystander effect
——Hazing doesn’t increase loyalty
——*’teen brain re-wiring'——fMRI
—*miscellaneous——female-named hurricanes are not more deadly
——Small children are not more creative.
—*soccer mom-tier “x is good/bad”——Therapy
——*You need 8-9 hours of sleep——Trauma does not scar us for life
——*porn addiction model
——*drug addiction in general
——*Alcohol consumption does not increase risk-taking while gambling
——*Screen time + video games
-*returns to education
—*estimate of $amount funds wasted
—*(rhetoric) despite trillions in education, our library of alexandria is scihub
—*evidence that lower barriers to reading increases scientific innovation
-*public opinion doesn’t matter & is malleable to power
—practical intelligence of the average person
The g Factor:
-using my new rotation method in various datasets to illustrate the validity of g
-*Expanded discussion of assortative mating
—*meta-analytic correlation between trait heritabilities and assortative mating coefficients
——incidental meta-analytic estimate of the heritability of intelligence part of this
—*specific estimate of genetic relatedness of partners/parents + specific assortative mating
-*sub-chapter on molecular genetics and the missing heritability not deboonking twin studies
—*exercise calculating expected parent-child correlations from heritabilities.
—*‘refutation’ of the relatedness disequilibrium regression paper
-*explaining why heritability really is an R^2 statistic
-*construct validity of g:—test anxiety
—curiosity
—*effort
—*location quality + peer intelligence
——*discussion of how people create their own environments + seek out their preferred environments + pagan influence on christianity
—sleepiness
-*examples of stuff IQ is identical to or correlates with:
—*musical ability—working memory
—*executive function
—*creativity—rationality
—ASVAB
—DAT
—GATB
—*Piagetian Tasks
—*PISA—General Knowledge
—Learning
—Memory
—Moral Reasoning
White Privilege:
-*affirmative action
——*legacies aren't unfairly privileged, but they should be
——white women
-*Explaining CRT and how shitlib views on race originated in it
-*low SES-connotations of black names responsible for hiring discrimination
-poverty-theft correlation vs poverty-rape correlation
-*Illustrate relevance of the r/k differences to the crime gap
Existence Of Race:
-*History of the usage of race
-*probability of being more related to a random individual of the same race than a random individual of another race
-*go over r/k selection stuff and human RCT evidence / animal breeding evidence of melanocortin being causal for aggression and libido.
-*genetic history/origin & distinctiveness of europeans
Race & IQ:
-Stuff on the racial IQ gap:
—meta-analysis of it
—*refute the test bias hypothesis
—regression to the mean proof that the gap exists & is representative
—*black-white gaps in alternate theories/subtests of intelligence
-refutation of the bird paper
-*Two original colorism falsifications
-Expanded review of newer admixture / PGS studies
-list the racial demographics of the cities in the voucher studies to illustrate their specific relevance to the IQ gaps
-*New method of calculating between-group heritability by exploiting the context specificity of within-group heritability estimates, + calculation in a large sample
Misc:
-*reformat book
-*create original variants of cited figures for copyright reasons
*-website:
—put webpage-formatted book content on website
*—create account system for people to submit work they’d like to contribute on any of these topics + vote on which projects they think should be highest priority + do an IQ test + stats test + etc to weigh the value of their opinions on these things
Shameless E-Begging:
The HBD faction is the closest thing to an elite that the right has today. Within it, there are dozens of young researchers behind the scenes, who nobody knows the names of, who pour all of their time into this work, and who regularly pull off spectacular technical feats that put most Ph.Ds to shame, and in real life, they can't even put any of it on a resume because it's too racist.
Think of all the priceless work you've ever come across; to the people who produced it, all of it is time down the drain with next to zero personal return on investment. You are a charity case to them. If this doesn't sit right with you, then I suggest you think long and hard about what dollar value pricetag you place upon victory.