Prof Pesta, I had your class at CSU and remember it fondly. You talked about race and IQ in a professional way. I've done my share of activism and I'm now an entrepreneur with a beautiful family. Thank you for everything. Just bought your book.
If you write a review of Pesta's book on Amazon, limit the content of your review carefully to avoid tripping Amazon's "Community Guidelines." The Community Guidelines are enforced very strictly around this topic. I wrote a short review, very moderate in tone, but it was rejected on that basis.
Thanks for your comments and support/reviews if you decide to buy the book. Also, shout out to my former student!
Regarding AI:
I wrote each chapter then sent it to ChatGPT with the prompt: Evaluate this and assign a letter grade. If it was less than an "A" I revised/polished the writing until it became an A.
My take: Something very similar occurs with human book editors. In fact, I paid one ~$1,300 for a different book, and I thought the alternate AI feedback was better for that book. So I pay $20 monthly for ChatGpt and the feedback comes in seconds versus weeks or months.
I submitted what's posted here to the first three-- free-- AI detectors I found when searching "AI detector" in Google:
22% AI Detector: Free AI Checker for ChatGPT, GPT5 & Gemini
9% AI Detector - Advanced AI Checker for ChatGPT, GPT-5 & Gemini
87% GPTZero
Bryan
p.s. This post was written by me.
p.p.s. From a different book (it's better than this one, imo)-- here's God as a primary character complaining about AI use (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRWP6PMJ):
“Jack, Jack, Jack,” He says. “You wrote yourself into another plot hole, didn’t you?”
“These bitches are hard to write,” I mutter. “Especially endings.”
He sighs—the sigh of a disappointed deity. “You took the cheap route. Deus ex machina squared. And unfortunately for you, in this universe, that’s literally Me climbing back down the chute to fix your shit.”
I stare at my boots like a sophomore caught plagiarizing haiku.
“Please don’t DNF me, sir. I can finish this arc. I swear.”
His eyes narrow, the divine equivalent of a red pen hovering over a manuscript someone already bled on.
“Uh-huh. Be honest,” He says. “You’ve been using AI for this, haven’t you?”
“What? No! Fuck me, sir, I just really like em-dashes—and giving three examples of everything—and the word flicker.”
God tilts His head.
“That’s what every KDP hustler says right before uploading fifty coloring books and a werewolf-stepbrother romance trilogy with a thirty-page prologue.”
“I swear,” I say, palms raised. “Every fart joke, every tortured metaphor, it’s all me. Small-batch. Organic. Free-range nonsense.”
He cracks a beer.
PBR. Of course.
“Good,” He says. “I don’t answer machine-generated prayers unless they pass My Turing test or buy Me a shot. Preferably both.”
The progressives are unwilling to accept that good educational policy for the individual can be destructive to the group.
Unless a group is situated in a area with copious jobs for high capability individuals, subjecting ethnic group members to ability sorting (SAT, ASVAP, ...) and associated training / education will reduce the capability of the group. The more capable individuals are far more likely to move to locations where they can exercise their more valuable skills and in the process are much more likely to leave the ethnic group (intermarry, ...). Since ability has a significant heritability, the group average ability drops and the example of how to succeed disappears. Over several generations the degradation of average capability can be significant. Studies have been done measuring drift in polygenetic scores for intelligence between defunct coal mining areas in England and cities that people migrated to, and rural Estonia and Estonian cities. I would expect similar drifts in rural areas and impacted urban areas that have been subject to generations of outmigration by the most capable.
And this argument is independent of potential initial average group differences in various abilities, which would interact directly with the selection processes.
The progressive assumption that current poverty reflects current discrimination can be very wrong. Allowing the more capable to escape the burden of their less capable brethren can leave behind subpopulations that no longer adapt well.
Very interesting how much societal sensitivities impact perception of whether empirical data is biased. From reading your article, I can see that, though the data collected was neutral, the reaction to the data results overcame its significance. It’s a shame.
Watch some Jesse Lee Peterson clips on YouTube. Peterson (or sen, not sure), a black man, basically argues that blacks ruin everything they touch. He interviews lots of black intellectuals and whites, too, and really makes it entertaining.
Pangram reports this as being 100% AI generated. And it certainly reads 100% AI generated. At least edit it so it SOUNDS human. My gosh. It's just insulting.
I was tipped off by a friend before reading it that there was a strong AI ghost writer element behind the grammar, word choice etc. That is an interesting new development in writing choice and in the critical evaluation of written output. The short book is an easy read with these focused chapters that make their point clearly. Should AI writing help be allowed at all, and if so how much? I have no idea what is the correct protocol on this. Perhaps it is a matter of taste. I found it an easy, relaxing read with interesting information content. It is a short book. Obviously, no AI help allowed if a student is submitting an essay to test his writing knowledge and skills, but it is not clear what is the rule for professional work.
I looked up Pangram (not familiar with it; I retired from academia and we used an earlier software package for detecting plagiarism more than AI). Pangram is designed to be used to test student essays etc. rather than the monitor AI help more generally in written documents. From their description of uses: "Academic Integrity for Education: Helps teachers and universities identify student work created by AI rather than original thought, distinguishing between AI assistance (editing) and full AI writing."
This seems so reasonable, an academic wanting to investigate a particular subject area, why should anything be off limits? Fortunately a citation to the paper that was produced is included, so we can do our own research. There we find that the "researchers who were widely regarded as controversial" include people like Jordan Lasker:
"In 2025, an investigation by the magazine Mother Jones found that between 2014 and 2016 Lasker had made many anti-Semitic and racist posts on Reddit under the pseudonym Faliceer. In 2016, the account Faliceer self-identified as a 'Jewish White Supremacist Nazi'. He also wished Adolf Hitler a happy birthday, promoted eugenics and attacked interracial relationships."
And John Fuerst and Emil Kirkegaard of something called the Ulster Institute for Social Research, an odd foundation set up by a man named Richard Lynn:
"Many scientists criticised Lynn's work for lacking scientific rigour, misrepresenting data, and for promoting a racialist political agenda. Lynn was associated with a network of academics and organisations that promote scientific racism. He had also advocated fringe positions regarding sexual differences in intelligence."
Kierkegaard seems like an interesting character:
"In 2012, he published a blog on his website about paedophilia, suggesting that abusers should be allowed to rape children drugged with sleeping medicine. 'If they dont notice it is difficult to see how they cud be harmed, even if it is rape [sic],' he wrote."
I just graduate Ms in cognitive systems. While artificial intelligence modulo is the first one to pass and mandatory, there is no single module about human intelligence, though half of the exams are about cognitive psychology. And we’re in 2026
There is a lot of political power and money involved in the false narrative the poverty is because of racism or whatever the liars benefit most from. This is only part of the Betrayal of Professional Classes, as my research using publicly published data and metrics shows.
Prof Pesta, I had your class at CSU and remember it fondly. You talked about race and IQ in a professional way. I've done my share of activism and I'm now an entrepreneur with a beautiful family. Thank you for everything. Just bought your book.
If you write a review of Pesta's book on Amazon, limit the content of your review carefully to avoid tripping Amazon's "Community Guidelines." The Community Guidelines are enforced very strictly around this topic. I wrote a short review, very moderate in tone, but it was rejected on that basis.
Thanks, Gregory.
—NC
Which is why social sciences in our universities are no longer worth supporting.
We need to stop calling them "sciences".
Dear all,
Thanks for your comments and support/reviews if you decide to buy the book. Also, shout out to my former student!
Regarding AI:
I wrote each chapter then sent it to ChatGPT with the prompt: Evaluate this and assign a letter grade. If it was less than an "A" I revised/polished the writing until it became an A.
My take: Something very similar occurs with human book editors. In fact, I paid one ~$1,300 for a different book, and I thought the alternate AI feedback was better for that book. So I pay $20 monthly for ChatGpt and the feedback comes in seconds versus weeks or months.
I submitted what's posted here to the first three-- free-- AI detectors I found when searching "AI detector" in Google:
22% AI Detector: Free AI Checker for ChatGPT, GPT5 & Gemini
9% AI Detector - Advanced AI Checker for ChatGPT, GPT-5 & Gemini
87% GPTZero
Bryan
p.s. This post was written by me.
p.p.s. From a different book (it's better than this one, imo)-- here's God as a primary character complaining about AI use (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRWP6PMJ):
“Jack, Jack, Jack,” He says. “You wrote yourself into another plot hole, didn’t you?”
“These bitches are hard to write,” I mutter. “Especially endings.”
He sighs—the sigh of a disappointed deity. “You took the cheap route. Deus ex machina squared. And unfortunately for you, in this universe, that’s literally Me climbing back down the chute to fix your shit.”
I stare at my boots like a sophomore caught plagiarizing haiku.
“Please don’t DNF me, sir. I can finish this arc. I swear.”
His eyes narrow, the divine equivalent of a red pen hovering over a manuscript someone already bled on.
“Uh-huh. Be honest,” He says. “You’ve been using AI for this, haven’t you?”
“What? No! Fuck me, sir, I just really like em-dashes—and giving three examples of everything—and the word flicker.”
God tilts His head.
“That’s what every KDP hustler says right before uploading fifty coloring books and a werewolf-stepbrother romance trilogy with a thirty-page prologue.”
“I swear,” I say, palms raised. “Every fart joke, every tortured metaphor, it’s all me. Small-batch. Organic. Free-range nonsense.”
He cracks a beer.
PBR. Of course.
“Good,” He says. “I don’t answer machine-generated prayers unless they pass My Turing test or buy Me a shot. Preferably both.”
Your experience is no surprise.
The progressives are unwilling to accept that good educational policy for the individual can be destructive to the group.
Unless a group is situated in a area with copious jobs for high capability individuals, subjecting ethnic group members to ability sorting (SAT, ASVAP, ...) and associated training / education will reduce the capability of the group. The more capable individuals are far more likely to move to locations where they can exercise their more valuable skills and in the process are much more likely to leave the ethnic group (intermarry, ...). Since ability has a significant heritability, the group average ability drops and the example of how to succeed disappears. Over several generations the degradation of average capability can be significant. Studies have been done measuring drift in polygenetic scores for intelligence between defunct coal mining areas in England and cities that people migrated to, and rural Estonia and Estonian cities. I would expect similar drifts in rural areas and impacted urban areas that have been subject to generations of outmigration by the most capable.
And this argument is independent of potential initial average group differences in various abilities, which would interact directly with the selection processes.
The progressive assumption that current poverty reflects current discrimination can be very wrong. Allowing the more capable to escape the burden of their less capable brethren can leave behind subpopulations that no longer adapt well.
I get what you mean; I’ve been there myself.
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/when-collegiality-becomes-censorship
https://indepnews.org/en/what-the-laval-case-shows-about-academic-freedom/
https://indepnews.org/en/academic-dissent-at-universite-laval-during-covid/
Very interesting how much societal sensitivities impact perception of whether empirical data is biased. From reading your article, I can see that, though the data collected was neutral, the reaction to the data results overcame its significance. It’s a shame.
Watch some Jesse Lee Peterson clips on YouTube. Peterson (or sen, not sure), a black man, basically argues that blacks ruin everything they touch. He interviews lots of black intellectuals and whites, too, and really makes it entertaining.
He's allowed to say the obvious truth because he's black.
Pangram reports this as being 100% AI generated. And it certainly reads 100% AI generated. At least edit it so it SOUNDS human. My gosh. It's just insulting.
I was tipped off by a friend before reading it that there was a strong AI ghost writer element behind the grammar, word choice etc. That is an interesting new development in writing choice and in the critical evaluation of written output. The short book is an easy read with these focused chapters that make their point clearly. Should AI writing help be allowed at all, and if so how much? I have no idea what is the correct protocol on this. Perhaps it is a matter of taste. I found it an easy, relaxing read with interesting information content. It is a short book. Obviously, no AI help allowed if a student is submitting an essay to test his writing knowledge and skills, but it is not clear what is the rule for professional work.
I looked up Pangram (not familiar with it; I retired from academia and we used an earlier software package for detecting plagiarism more than AI). Pangram is designed to be used to test student essays etc. rather than the monitor AI help more generally in written documents. From their description of uses: "Academic Integrity for Education: Helps teachers and universities identify student work created by AI rather than original thought, distinguishing between AI assistance (editing) and full AI writing."
I think it's just written as an academic.
This seems so reasonable, an academic wanting to investigate a particular subject area, why should anything be off limits? Fortunately a citation to the paper that was produced is included, so we can do our own research. There we find that the "researchers who were widely regarded as controversial" include people like Jordan Lasker:
"In 2025, an investigation by the magazine Mother Jones found that between 2014 and 2016 Lasker had made many anti-Semitic and racist posts on Reddit under the pseudonym Faliceer. In 2016, the account Faliceer self-identified as a 'Jewish White Supremacist Nazi'. He also wished Adolf Hitler a happy birthday, promoted eugenics and attacked interracial relationships."
And John Fuerst and Emil Kirkegaard of something called the Ulster Institute for Social Research, an odd foundation set up by a man named Richard Lynn:
"Many scientists criticised Lynn's work for lacking scientific rigour, misrepresenting data, and for promoting a racialist political agenda. Lynn was associated with a network of academics and organisations that promote scientific racism. He had also advocated fringe positions regarding sexual differences in intelligence."
Kierkegaard seems like an interesting character:
"In 2012, he published a blog on his website about paedophilia, suggesting that abusers should be allowed to rape children drugged with sleeping medicine. 'If they dont notice it is difficult to see how they cud be harmed, even if it is rape [sic],' he wrote."
Objective, credible researchers?
I just graduate Ms in cognitive systems. While artificial intelligence modulo is the first one to pass and mandatory, there is no single module about human intelligence, though half of the exams are about cognitive psychology. And we’re in 2026
There is a lot of political power and money involved in the false narrative the poverty is because of racism or whatever the liars benefit most from. This is only part of the Betrayal of Professional Classes, as my research using publicly published data and metrics shows.
Here is the article's audio overview mirrored in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVz9YpEM7g
".. Crisis of the Modern World, Many Decades of Professional Class Betrayals" https://stevenwork.substack.com/p/multiverse-journal-index-number-2231, https://archive.is/lR0Ky
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Well, May we all find ourselves ever closer to God, and His Truth.
God Bless., Steve