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George Francis
Personal blog · georgefrancis.substack.comculturescience
George Francis's personal blog at georgefrancis.substack.com covers culture and science. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in Hacker News threads on teen maths and reading decline, LLM pattern learning, and national intelligence and economic growth. The linked posts cover dysgenics and national IQ, including its link to fertility.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
IQ is negatively correlated with fertility [1], which makes declining IQ a plausible explanation for this development. 1. https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/dysgenics-by-the-number...
Comment linking /p/dysgenics-by-the-numbers
on “Mathematics, reading skills in unprecedented decline in teenagers – OECD survey”Submitted Imposter (Syndrome) Is Among Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUnfortunately as a species we are in fact getting dumber because of dysgenics. Intelligence (which is strongly heritable) and fertility are anti-correlated, especially in women. See e.g. https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/dysgenics-by-the-number...
Comment linking /p/dysgenics-by-the-numbers
on “Large Language Models As General Pattern Machines”Summarized by the authors at https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/national-intelligence-real... and https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/national-iq-is-the-best... .
Comment linking /p/national-iq-is-the-best-predictor
on “National Intelligence and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Update”