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I think the problem with that is the very low dimensionality of social science. Given how little we know about any behavioral influences of genetics, all such racial questions are dealing in the wrong dimensions. The analogy is saying that chemistry is simply measuring percentages of earth, air, fire and water. So long as we are measuring in the simplified terms of race, we will never come to any insight. Or that psychology is simply measuring the four homours (blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy).

Im suggesting then, as a data engineer, that Amazon, for example, can know what you want to buy and never ask you about race; that there are thousands of behavioral markers that are influenced by choices and situations that number in the billions. What humans might do in the complex adaptive system of today's society is impossible to measure or predict in 17th century terms.

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I should clarify that I do not expect that anyone should reroute their racial ideas through a proper filter of genetics. Statistical morality is a cheesy cheat that misses the point entirely. Only the sort of bumbling Babbitts who would invite people to a party based on a spreadsheet analysis would pursue that angle. I'm not talking about New Genetic Rules for Karens. I'm talking about red pilling the entire universe of racial thought.

The endgame of this idea is that there is only the most marginal amount of friction for those who deny or defy their 'proper' racial heritage. What happens to the Irish American who calls bullshit on St. Patricks Day? What happens to the black American who calls bullshit on Black History Month? More than nothing. Racial politics is to blame.

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