Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1.  @Tsukonin  Or they could just be adapted to different parts of the IQ test, less less verbal and math, more geo-spacial cuz it certainly takes more brain power to track down and hunt a dozen different animals, gather hundreds of plants and make art than it takes to plant 1-5 plants.
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  2. ​​ @rb98769  I don't know of Mennonites have similar advantages but there's a surprising large Mennonite population in Africa. Just the Ethiopian and DRC populations are more than in USA. There's also large groups in Latin America, South East Asia and so on.
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  3. I don't think the diversity is as big of a buff as u represent it as. There's a million wrong ways to solve mathematical equation but only a few right ways to solve it. And being so diverse the group that may actually solve it may not have the numbers to take advantage of it. Like a poor and politically insignificant ethnos of 20,000 people solving the fertility isn't gonna result in much for generations. And this is actually important because as Dutton would calm it there's a genius strategy for populations that only works when they're sufficiently big, small broken groups like this would still not be able to pool the resources of all their geniuses into a large system the same way Europe can and get an economy of scale and it is harder to work between groups when they have different identities, tho large companies and government ministries and parastatals could be a potential solution to this.
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  4. How would you feel about Techno-Puritanism is say... after some generations it just ends up being a unique, largely ethnic christian tradition like the Ethiopians or Amish?.
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  5. Yeah, there's literally a several volume work with each volume several hundred pages large just detailing Chinese inventions that u can find free online(if u know where to look). To go China hasn't invented shit is to confess u haven't even looked.
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  6. ​ @CaomhanOMurchadha  yeah, because we have genetic data we can say that there was at most two incidents and probably one. But what about the number of genetically variant and genetically specific other variants like the various domesticated rices or the yams and grains?.
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  7.  @jacobscholtissek2410  there is also a rice tradition in the Americas, in the Canadian red river. And that's just one crop. Talkless of the say, several dozen major domesticated plants. This is just one reason that hyperdiffusionism was dropped. Tho, regionalism may have gone too far now and we need to accept some large diffusionism (like near East founding Agriculture in all middle east and West Eurasia) we're never going back to Hyperdiffusionism.
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  8.  @jsbrads1  The thing is, given he was probably tripping alot of the stuff he said were mots likely false.
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  9. While Africa is truly underdeveloped and as such not privy to much of the socio-economic pressures of the developed world, it is also, still part of the global world. Its smartest people still emigrate to Western cities which as such are IQ shredders(smart people in them tend to progressively have less and less kids); Its smartest people still disproportionate go into fields that expose them to the outside world and as such are disproportionately affected among their populations by the woke mind virus; global benefits in health and food security still mean, much more of the unfit survive to the next generation. Now, there are factors that oppose this like rich returnees but is it the smarter or is it the poorer half of emigrants that return? Is it the smarter or poorer half that becomes woke and/or low fertility?. So I don't necessarily buy this argument. Not without detail, at least.
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  10. ​​ @emperorpalpatine9841 huge cope indeed. Like they couldn't even use something more vague like West Eurasian, lol.
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  11. @ It was a problem for them cuz their "ai-slave" was humans. Our population would shrink but our workforce may not weaken as productivity of the workforce will only increase, military will be affected a bit as you still need men on the ground to occupy territory but that doesn't matter for a defensive war so at least, on a defensive war and non-conquest offensive war(like most offensive wars today) drones will mean military power doesn't have to be affected. This doesn't even need to contradict with the religious inheriting it earth but it certainly won't be foreign, barbarian, invading religious cuz the drones will get them.
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  12. @ I mean, the reason for southern population growth you mention sounds like they were just more like any other pre-industrial agricultural groups expanding into relatively empty land whether Bantu, Anatolian, Zagros or Austronesian/Haobidian.
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  13.  @alanlight7740  Polyandry also exist in parts of Iran and Persiante Central Asia, it just died out there earlier due to the Islamic caliphates but the practice can be reconstructed from Islamic Polemics against Iranian peoples.
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  14.  @alanlight7740  anyways, thanks for correcting me. The closest thing to Polyamory I saw was that of a brother on a Polyandrous marriage marries again, either she is all others wife as well or he moves out with her. It is only directly gotten evidence for from Tibet but I am willing to be it was used across this cultural area.
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  15. Yeah, I am always skeptical of the "woman fertility plummits at 35 crowd" cuz all the last children I know were born in that 35 - 45 range and the women stop more because they didn't want anymore than it being because they couldn't birth more.
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  16.  @TomFranklinX  and why should random structure lasts longer be ur main priority in building stuff?.
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  17.  @TomFranklinX  They built in stone in the Deccan(a massive basalt flow) and didn't build their houses in stone only temples. And why don't include the Ameridian civilizations here? Or those in West Africa?. Given we also have stone structures from there, were in the Tropics but didn't build their houses out of stone. And on the structures that last longer are better angle, would you then say that Early Modern(not talking abt ancient) Japan with it's structures that last till today is a civilization superior to American civilization with it's wooden and concrete structures that last about 50 years?. And given ur response to the recency bias question, would u now then say that Japanese Katana that are on average older than European ones are a superior metallurgical tradition?.
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  18. @Imperial_Cosmonaut  hey, man. I am just quoting a colonial era account that said exactly that. I generally trust people that went there themselves more than randoms on the internet.
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  19. ​ @tann_man  well, he does say Simone is the smarter one.
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  20. Turns out NOI was right about when the White Race was created.
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  21. 26:25 I have to say, ur wrong here Malcom. You see the phenomena across the board among political blks. Even MLK wanted a hyt woman. I guess they are so hyperexposed to their low status in America that they're inclined to marry up racially while more apolitical but successful blacks may instead have a more endogamous inclination.
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  22. 16:04 No, i think it is falling that fast not due to global cultural norms but due do modern style economies taking hold. I know a bunch of fairly traditional people with 1 or two kids or only planning for two. You just can't send so many kids to university which is considered by many, necessary to make ends meet as an adult. Smaller family sizes are also envouraged by high rents. This is why when they get richer they have more kids cuz the culture still promotes having kids but the modern style economy resists it.
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  23. ​ @JSStuart100 they don't. Ur mistaking the Pyramids for the later Tarim Basin mummies.
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  24. "A good person is one who does not believe they are getting any reward from their actions" No its not. A good person may not always be in reward seeking mode but I see no reason why believing you're gonna get a reward makes you not a good person. Especially when most good actions bring good to the person that does it.
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  25. he should have selected himself out of the genepool.
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  26. Because gooners are losing in other aspects of their life and coping with gooning. Basically drug addicts, if they couldn't cope with gooning they'll more quickly get back to doing something productive. Society would definately be better without it. Just look at monastic communities.
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  27. I am pretty sure coins started in Anatolia but Greece was by its close proximity an earlier adopter.
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  28. Ur opinion on male and female circumcision.
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  29. Are some of these people's behaviour actually changing or is it more it getting easier to do x or y. Like on the fat stores, are people actually being less fat or as it just become so much easier to become fat on our high grain diets that we have to lose to fat keeping genes to stay at a fit weight?. And I am suspicious on the intelligence one cuz no way it takes more brain power to pick out hundreds of plants and hunt dozens of animals, than it takes to farm the same 1 - 5 plants. But you know, that Calorie conservation argument is actually pretty novel, however Hunter Gatherers are generally taller than farmers which correlates to better food, so I doubt. Maybe Hunter Gatherers having more "lean" and "fat" periods during the year while it is closer to stability for farmers may explain this one, but I doubt.
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  30. I think Angkor should be up to a thousand years old or at least over 500. It was built during the Khmer Empire that was early to mid medieval.
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  31. ​ @Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove I mean, it was still way larger than Cambridge was when it was founded.
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  32. What you describe remind me of some but far from all African independent churches. They don't have an extreme level of skepticism but certainly do entertain the Noah story as a real event and a teacher that would spurn a child asking such questions would be more tired of it than you're doing bad.
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  33. Because people found out similar solutions to similar issues?. Like come on, even today we come across several cases of people independently inventing similar things. How much more common would that have been if there much less communication?.
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  34. ​​ @fabiancartouche Most Egyptian monarchs were some branch of E as are most Afro-Asiatic peoples and Africans in general. Also, Hitler was E1b1b is that now evidence that Hitler was actually African or some shit?. Finally, we know Afro-Asiatic groups have some R, including Blk ones like Chadics. Are Nigerians Western European now?.
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  35. @lemoneyesalt5513  nah, I think more what he meant is that there is only one civilization. All other civilizations are demoted to non-civilizational levels, that's the reason for the constant comparison back to stone henge which is considered to have been built by a non-civilization.
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  36. I think we should instead be comparing the up coming drop historically to periods of plague and horrible wars for an idea of it.
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  37. Hieroglyphics do not derive from Mesopotamian seals, like, there is literally no stylistic connection?. Why would someone work back from a an abstract syllabic writing system back to a pictographic writing system?. The earliest name written in Hieroglyphics "Domain of the Horus King Scorpion" looks more like Saharan cave paintings than Cuneiform, showings it's local development. Edit While Mesopotamian Agriculture is older, Egyptian state formation is older. That is why the above mentioned hieroglyphic of a petty king is from the 4th millennium BC. That's older than our oldest clear evidence of Mesopotamian state formation.
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  38. @anthonyruggier7029  I am not an expert either but here's the dating for the Scorpion King, inscription 3075 BC and there's another less readable scorpion king from abt 3250 BC. Earliest dating for state in Mesopotamia I have seen is 3250 BC while the earliest for Mesopotamia is 3200 BC or 3100 BC(as I am yet to see anything that specifically calls the Uruk culture period state level) but then again, I read more Egypt related stuff so I may have missed some earlier dating in Mesopotamia. In the case of Egypt that's at least multiple Kingdoms already while even if late Uruk culture was state level, that'll be it's first at around 3200. -- On the pictographs. I guess I should have been more elaborate, Hieroglyphics aren't a pictographic writing system, they're include Logo-Syllabic but the characters are also not as abstracted out as Mesopotamian and remain clearly pictorial; they're simple drawings representing sounds and ideas i.e. pictorial writing. Cuneiform is more abstract, even tho it does have its own pictorial elements. U don't go from more abstract to less abstract.
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  39. While this is true. If the Christian sect they adopt is Catholicism, the Chinese rites controversy ended with some concession to Ancestor Veneration.
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  40. I just knew Zap Branigan would be in there.
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  41. @ "As some said in a cheerful way "from defeat to defeat, the Church outlives her foes"." The other Apostolic churches could say the same and more importantly those were still defeats. Those were still christian souls permanently ceded to the enemy. "Many of those who kicked the Church out are long gone (where is the Caliph?) or in a death spiral (where's Scandinavian Protestantism?)" The Caliph was actually still a thing till the world wars but responding to the second one is more important; Catholicism is also in danger and its oldest enemies still remain. This isn't absolute evidence. "I certainly woulnd't bet on the "end of the Catholic Church"." Sure bro, we'll just lose another equivalent to what was lost when Islam rose but apparently that's okay cuz one secondary administrative division somewhere in Poland will still be catholic so we can still cope.
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  42.  @73elephants  didn't Malcolm's video on S. Korea show why strict meritocracy as you define it also leads to population collapse in modern day?.
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  43. ​​ @umwha  "The entire African continent was boiling with constant Slavery and Conquering" sure bro, now just give me one example of that constantly conquest and slavery in medieval Africa.
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  44. ​​ @umwha And are you not aware that a European slave trade has been ongoing since forever?. Infact, so many Slavic slaves were traded through Europe that the word Slave is derived from Slave and the estimate for traffic meditteraean Europeans is well over a million, while serfdom turned the bulk of the population into what the UN today would recognize as slaves. This is "slavery free" Europe. If this is slavery free, pre-trans-atlantic Africa definitely free.
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  45. ​​ @AnthropoTube  hey, man. Like the Yt man dream that their ancestors were anything other than the first destructive steppe barbarian that their later ancestors will later consistently complain about. Also, how long till u make the next video in ur series. Hope it won't take a year like the last did.
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  46. Can you tell me of the theory that says Chinese is a branch of Indo-European?. Cuz, I have seen may linguistic theories but I have never seen one that say Indo-European and Chinese are related.
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  47. @umwha  I was talking of the earliest ones. The earliest ones are not Europoid, they're a mix of East Asian and North Eurasian. Andrei DNA did a good video series on it here's the first one. https://youtu.be/lXo48UWtRck?si=jIAp_y_gtM3WZdPL Later Tocharians and Saka would migrate in but that's later.
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  48. Even if it is more cultural than genetic, one could argue you need certain genetics for the culture to take hold. Like, ur never gonna teach a dog how to reproduce any human culture. So maybe, it takes some genetic stock for high civilization to land.
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  49. Trust Malcom, that wasn't ReAl civilization.
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  50. Its the Physiognomy.
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