Emil, could you give an overview of research on male and female cooperation, teamwork and friendship? I'm not asking about the topic of the post, but nevertheless. I've read a lot about gender differences, but I've noticed that this topic is almost never discussed. Here's a bit of research from what I found:
I know you're writing this from an European point of view. But try to think about this from the perspective of Singapore. Trafficking even small amounts of cannabis will get you the death penalty in Singapore. I can leave my cell phone at a table at Starbucks to save the seat and come back to it. Nobody will steal it. Society is much safer and cleaner when drug dealer are killed. Their genes are eliminated.
If such a law ever passes in the US, we will probably be executing at least 10K people a year if not more. Purging this many drug dealers who are likely committing other crimes will make the US much much safer and more livable. This will never happen of course. But even if we don't execute them, but we put them in prison for 30 years. That will go a long way towards isolating criminals from civil society. So no, I'm not for legalization but for tougher laws against marijuana and other drug offenses.
What do you think about the autism-schizophrenia spectrum? If cannabis moves someone towards psychosis, perhaps some on the autism side could benefit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34043900/
It's a cool theory to explore. In general, schizophrenia-autism seems to differ by population, which correlates with verbal tilt. The thorny problem is that autism and schizophrenia seems to correlate at the individual level, while at the same time there's a trade-off at the population level. This could be explained by in a bifactor model, where P explains the covariance, and this is stronger than the trade-off in a secondary dimension.
Can you do an article on psychedelics and whether or not they have any significant negative effects? I’ve noticed a lot of research showing it has overall a substantial amount of positive benefits but not many critiques against its use.
Why do you assume 90 % hereditabily of schizophrenia? In article you linked most of underestimations come from self-reports. But how is schizophrenia not something clear?
There are more types, but that can result in both underestimation or overestimation.
I mean there is some theories about the relationship between mental illness and genius(emil has talked about this before in relation to ashkenazi jews, who are overrepresented in geniuses compared to gentiles, even accounting for a 10 point or so advantage in IQ(https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2022/11/a-theory-of-ashkenazi-genius-intelligence-and-mental-illness/)). Also the absolute risk for schizophrenia is not as high as the 80% heritability(like 40% concordance if one identical twin has it/50% if both parents do, and significantly less if it's a lesser relative, these are all high compared to a 0.5-1% rate in western countries). So it's possible the counteracting benefits of a lesser degree of psychopathology than would normally be classified as a mental illness(creativeness perhaps), would allow a family partially afflicted by mental illness to continue on(full schizophrenic families usually do not last long, as the fertility rate for someone with schizophrenia is very low).
Forgot to include that as well, but couldn't find a paper on a quick lookup(I remember one using whether family members had schizophrenia that showed a significant decrease in risk from like 1st-10th deciles).
“ If this increased spending is to be covered by the sale of cannabis, one has to add a tax that corresponds to this increased spending. ”
I believe you are considering this from your perspective as a foreign national. Here in the USA, the situation I believe may be different. Local marijuana growing and the illegal import has gone on for decades—especially after the 60’s. Right now the cost of legal, store bought marijuana, exceeds the cost of the illegally smuggled drug. Hence a tax may simply shift more purchases to the Black Market. Also, every bill/law I’ve seen to date allows home grown marijuana for personal use. Indeed there was a court case which allowed “collective” growing of marijuana for personal use. In short, marijuana—already heavily taxed by the State—may not produce the revenue needed for treatment of bad health problems that one hopes.
My general thinking is that regulation of the potency of the new marijuana products being sold is the better way to go. The marijuana product being sold today is upwards of 10s’s stronger than the stuff we got in the 60’s. Your findings have been echoed by others—Alex Berenson comes to mind. We need to get the word out. Even without a disease like schizophrenia, the effect on young minds with frequent use has a chillingly dulling effect on school achievement and future economic potential.
Emil, could you give an overview of research on male and female cooperation, teamwork and friendship? I'm not asking about the topic of the post, but nevertheless. I've read a lot about gender differences, but I've noticed that this topic is almost never discussed. Here's a bit of research from what I found:
https://vdare.com/posts/all-male-teams-can-succeed-without-the-teammates-liking-each-other
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2016.09.003 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185408 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.04.014 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9198-z
I know you're writing this from an European point of view. But try to think about this from the perspective of Singapore. Trafficking even small amounts of cannabis will get you the death penalty in Singapore. I can leave my cell phone at a table at Starbucks to save the seat and come back to it. Nobody will steal it. Society is much safer and cleaner when drug dealer are killed. Their genes are eliminated.
If such a law ever passes in the US, we will probably be executing at least 10K people a year if not more. Purging this many drug dealers who are likely committing other crimes will make the US much much safer and more livable. This will never happen of course. But even if we don't execute them, but we put them in prison for 30 years. That will go a long way towards isolating criminals from civil society. So no, I'm not for legalization but for tougher laws against marijuana and other drug offenses.
What do you think about the autism-schizophrenia spectrum? If cannabis moves someone towards psychosis, perhaps some on the autism side could benefit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34043900/
It's a cool theory to explore. In general, schizophrenia-autism seems to differ by population, which correlates with verbal tilt. The thorny problem is that autism and schizophrenia seems to correlate at the individual level, while at the same time there's a trade-off at the population level. This could be explained by in a bifactor model, where P explains the covariance, and this is stronger than the trade-off in a secondary dimension.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.2451
Can you do an article on psychedelics and whether or not they have any significant negative effects? I’ve noticed a lot of research showing it has overall a substantial amount of positive benefits but not many critiques against its use.
Studies are too small and usage is too rare in the general population. I don't think one would be able to conclude much.
I think the cannabis meditation diagram is confusing — could be dashed arrow going through cannabis box that gets thicker
Why do you assume 90 % hereditabily of schizophrenia? In article you linked most of underestimations come from self-reports. But how is schizophrenia not something clear?
There are more types, but that can result in both underestimation or overestimation.
There are studies supporting a high heritability(here's one with a Danish twin register https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28987712/)
80 % sounds reasonable. But 90 % and 10 % is not environment? That's sounds like bs. No way nature would allow this to exist for so long.
I mean there is some theories about the relationship between mental illness and genius(emil has talked about this before in relation to ashkenazi jews, who are overrepresented in geniuses compared to gentiles, even accounting for a 10 point or so advantage in IQ(https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2022/11/a-theory-of-ashkenazi-genius-intelligence-and-mental-illness/)). Also the absolute risk for schizophrenia is not as high as the 80% heritability(like 40% concordance if one identical twin has it/50% if both parents do, and significantly less if it's a lesser relative, these are all high compared to a 0.5-1% rate in western countries). So it's possible the counteracting benefits of a lesser degree of psychopathology than would normally be classified as a mental illness(creativeness perhaps), would allow a family partially afflicted by mental illness to continue on(full schizophrenic families usually do not last long, as the fertility rate for someone with schizophrenia is very low).
>Genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia had a much stronger impact on risk of illness for those with low versus high intelligence.
Forgot to include that as well, but couldn't find a paper on a quick lookup(I remember one using whether family members had schizophrenia that showed a significant decrease in risk from like 1st-10th deciles).
Things that are difficult to detect are small. So - doesn't matter if this is real or not; it's too small to be important.
“ If this increased spending is to be covered by the sale of cannabis, one has to add a tax that corresponds to this increased spending. ”
I believe you are considering this from your perspective as a foreign national. Here in the USA, the situation I believe may be different. Local marijuana growing and the illegal import has gone on for decades—especially after the 60’s. Right now the cost of legal, store bought marijuana, exceeds the cost of the illegally smuggled drug. Hence a tax may simply shift more purchases to the Black Market. Also, every bill/law I’ve seen to date allows home grown marijuana for personal use. Indeed there was a court case which allowed “collective” growing of marijuana for personal use. In short, marijuana—already heavily taxed by the State—may not produce the revenue needed for treatment of bad health problems that one hopes.
My general thinking is that regulation of the potency of the new marijuana products being sold is the better way to go. The marijuana product being sold today is upwards of 10s’s stronger than the stuff we got in the 60’s. Your findings have been echoed by others—Alex Berenson comes to mind. We need to get the word out. Even without a disease like schizophrenia, the effect on young minds with frequent use has a chillingly dulling effect on school achievement and future economic potential.