curtis.yarvin

How to respond to hostile media inquiries

You receive a nice letter like this:

From: Tess Townsend <#########@inc.com>
Subject: Media inquiry, deadline 10 am PST: LambdaConf (4 questions)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:04:27 +0000

Hi Curtis,

You said “assumes a normal distribution.” I think you know enough math to see how I interpreted that as denying “highly polygenic.”

Instead you seem to argue that… most or many of these small variants will have different effects in different environments? I see hoofprints, I think horses. You see hoofprints, you think…

Thanks, Ian, this conversation has only gotten more civil.

I think I’ve been implying a perspective without expressing it clearly, which is that Malik (someone with a common name whom I haven’t seen in 30 years) needs work. We all do. There is no situation in which human beings without tension, without responsibility…