[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @TNG512 TNG5 TNG5 posts on X about japan, south korea, countries, china the most. They currently have XXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/interactions)  - X Week XXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXX +251% - X Months XXXXXXX +352% - X Year XXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +17% - X Months XXX +185% - X Year XXXXX +6.10% ### Followers: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/followers)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +1.20% - X Months XXX +5.90% - X Year XXX +20% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1183151059453104128/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [japan](/topic/japan) 14.89%, [south korea](/topic/south-korea) #788, [countries](/topic/countries) 6.38%, [china](/topic/china) 6.38%, [math](/topic/math) 4.26%, [culture](/topic/culture) 4.26%, [taiwan](/topic/taiwan) 4.26%, [for all](/topic/for-all) 2.13%, [guess](/topic/guess) 2.13%, [bernie sanders](/topic/bernie-sanders) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@soblackandblue](/creator/undefined) [@besttrousers](/creator/undefined) [@xwanyex](/creator/undefined) [@ianinnorway](/creator/undefined) [@phl43](/creator/undefined) [@patimarins64](/creator/undefined) [@jonatanpallesen](/creator/undefined) [@richardhanania](/creator/undefined) [@phil58919600](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Did some math using a few publicly available numbers and it sure looks like public libraries are responsible for a non-trivial share of the total annual revenue from DVD and Blu-Ray sales now. If you're worried about the Netflix WB deal dooming physical media don't. That industry is already being propped up by government subsidies anyway" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1997512656677437738) 2025-12-07T03:45Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "Libraries do buy few Blu-Rays so one has to wonder if the only thing keeping those production lines online are video games and if so what will happen if games either go all digital or start using carts for all of the physical releases. I guess the collector's sets might have to start using flash carts too" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1997514502309634297) 2025-12-07T03:52Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Especially in the American political context the leftmost extreme of the economic Overton Window represented by Bernie Sanders et al is turning the US into a Scandinavian-style social democracy. Demonstrating that giving low market income people already living in an Actually Existing Scandinavian social democracy even more money doesn't do much is utterly useless for that policy debate. And amplifying the results of such studies while not mentioning the crucial detail of where they were conducted is incredibly intellectually irresponsible if done unintentionally ntellectually dishonest if" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998075596438434193) 2025-12-08T17:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements "He also noted early on that the available data for North Korean IQ (from tests given to refugees) indicates markedly lower IQs than South Koreans and then later asks why we should expect East Asian culture to survive X generations of rule under the Kim dynasty. If NK's IQ scores are lower why we are we even talking about culture surviving Maybe they did lose their culture and that's partially *why* their IQ scores are lower" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998175402708328630) 2025-12-08T23:38Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Hanania also brings up North Korea's high Math Olympiad ranking but I already told him a year ago in response to an earlier article that the data shows an *incredibly* obvious Communist+Post-Communist advantage in that competition:" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998176390899016038) 2025-12-08T23:42Z XXX followers, XX engagements "As for NK's achievements in military tech I also responded to that at the time: North Korean economic conditions were better before the 1990s "Arduous March" though no one is quite sure how much because their econ statistics are incredibly opaque. Regardless a lot of NK scientists and engineers are like everywhere old enough to have grown up before the Arduous March and the younger ones still had access to resources like schools and libraries that were not destroyed by the Arduous March" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998177185748898136) 2025-12-08T23:45Z XXX followers, XX engagements "If Chanda Chisala is right that in significant part Sub-Saharan African countries perform so poorly on cognitive tests because they lack basic resources like school textbooks and libraries then it would be totally unsurprising that a country like North Korea that still has those things as leftovers from better times scores better on IQ tests than its current GDP/capita would lead you to expect. Even leaving aside the question of potential selection bias in who manages to escape North Korea and gives us our only source of data on North Korean IQ" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998177816563818541) 2025-12-08T23:48Z XXX followers, XX engagements "I also think that lumping Japan in with South Korea and Taiwan etc is just wrong. Japan industrialized long *before* the others. And Singapore's natural geographic advantages means that it would have had to try very hard to *not* be a rich country today. If we're down to just China South Korea and Taiwan then 2/3 are just Chinese culture I think few would dispute that Korean culture has a bunch of similarities with Chinese culture and the 2/3 that industrialized sooner were high priority Cold War US protectorates. This is not a good dataset to draw causal conclusions off of at all" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998181476266057996) 2025-12-09T00:02Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Expanding more on the Japan point one of Richard's arguments for a long time is that it doesn't make much sense to put Japan in the same cultural cluster as China and South Korea therefore it doesn't make sense to explain Japan's "similar economic success" with a cultural explanation. Maybe. But the only reason why Japan looks economically "similar" to other East Asian countries *now* is because Japan's economic growth has been stagnating for the last XX years. Japan industrialized *much* earlier than other East Asian countries and as late as 1990 they were still by a large margin well ahead" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998253949183529442) 2025-12-09T04:50Z XXX followers, XX engagements ""in Finland" I repeat my call for a global ban on research into the effects of poverty that uses subjects living in Nordic social democracies" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998073347343810710) 2025-12-08T16:53Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "I'm inclined to side with Noah here Hanania's arguments strike me a lot as painting bullseyes around bulletholes. For example: "As long as they aren't subject to something as extreme as the rule of Mao." But the century before Mao is called by Chinese people their "century of national humiliation."" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998173340364877836) 2025-12-08T23:30Z XXX followers, XXX engagements "Interesting comment on the Substack. The Dominican Republic is now richer than countries like Colombia. Would any HBD types have predicted that" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998184195236270457) 2025-12-09T00:13Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Here's a graph that was posted in Rich's own article. As you can see it makes zero sense to lump Japan in with the rest of East Asia apart from geographically exceptional Singapore prior to 1990" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998256641062682752) 2025-12-09T05:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Doesn't make any sense to lump Japan in with South Korea and Taiwan after 1990 either. The latter two have been growing much faster since 1990 and Japan is now poorer than the others after XX years of economic stagnation. Japan and South Korea ended up in a similar place now but their paths to get there were very different" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998257369097343048) 2025-12-09T05:04Z XXX followers, XX engagements "We're only left with the question of whether China and South Korea are really that culturally similar but here's a graph that Rich presented in an earlier article as evidence against the idea that Japan should be lumped in with Korea and China culturally that shows that by this measure South Korea and mainland China appear to be indeed quite close. In fact they're closer to each other than mainland China is to Taiwan or Hong Kong" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998258723752731033) 2025-12-09T05:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements "TLDR: There was no "East Asian success." There was a relatively recent pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success. And also separately Japan was much more successful than almost the entire rest of Asia from 1868 until 1990 and they've been badly economically stagnating for the last XX years. And that seems a lot less mysterious regardless of which theory of success you subscribe to" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998262020781584526) 2025-12-09T05:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Well the pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success part seems a lot less mysterious. I think that Japan's XX years and counting of stagnation looks pretty weird and seems understudied" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998262520017199467) 2025-12-09T05:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements "Withdrawal that didn't happen until the end of March was "forced" in "early-mid March". This should have been a red flag that something was off about the story. And we now know for sure that they were leaving something really big out: at the time the Pentagon and presumably by extension the Ukrainians believed that there were at least XX BTGs waiting in Belarus to reinforce the Kyiv axis and likely encircle Kyiv" [X Link](https://x.com/TNG512/status/1998652985291985129) 2025-12-10T07:16Z XXX followers, X engagements
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@TNG512 TNG5
TNG5 posts on X about japan, south korea, countries, china the most. They currently have XXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence japan 14.89%, south korea #788, countries 6.38%, china 6.38%, math 4.26%, culture 4.26%, taiwan 4.26%, for all 2.13%, guess 2.13%, bernie sanders XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @soblackandblue @besttrousers @xwanyex @ianinnorway @phl43 @patimarins64 @jonatanpallesen @richardhanania @phil58919600
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Did some math using a few publicly available numbers and it sure looks like public libraries are responsible for a non-trivial share of the total annual revenue from DVD and Blu-Ray sales now. If you're worried about the Netflix WB deal dooming physical media don't. That industry is already being propped up by government subsidies anyway"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:45Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Libraries do buy few Blu-Rays so one has to wonder if the only thing keeping those production lines online are video games and if so what will happen if games either go all digital or start using carts for all of the physical releases. I guess the collector's sets might have to start using flash carts too"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:52Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Especially in the American political context the leftmost extreme of the economic Overton Window represented by Bernie Sanders et al is turning the US into a Scandinavian-style social democracy. Demonstrating that giving low market income people already living in an Actually Existing Scandinavian social democracy even more money doesn't do much is utterly useless for that policy debate. And amplifying the results of such studies while not mentioning the crucial detail of where they were conducted is incredibly intellectually irresponsible if done unintentionally ntellectually dishonest if"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"He also noted early on that the available data for North Korean IQ (from tests given to refugees) indicates markedly lower IQs than South Koreans and then later asks why we should expect East Asian culture to survive X generations of rule under the Kim dynasty. If NK's IQ scores are lower why we are we even talking about culture surviving Maybe they did lose their culture and that's partially why their IQ scores are lower"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:38Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Hanania also brings up North Korea's high Math Olympiad ranking but I already told him a year ago in response to an earlier article that the data shows an incredibly obvious Communist+Post-Communist advantage in that competition:"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:42Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"As for NK's achievements in military tech I also responded to that at the time: North Korean economic conditions were better before the 1990s "Arduous March" though no one is quite sure how much because their econ statistics are incredibly opaque. Regardless a lot of NK scientists and engineers are like everywhere old enough to have grown up before the Arduous March and the younger ones still had access to resources like schools and libraries that were not destroyed by the Arduous March"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:45Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"If Chanda Chisala is right that in significant part Sub-Saharan African countries perform so poorly on cognitive tests because they lack basic resources like school textbooks and libraries then it would be totally unsurprising that a country like North Korea that still has those things as leftovers from better times scores better on IQ tests than its current GDP/capita would lead you to expect. Even leaving aside the question of potential selection bias in who manages to escape North Korea and gives us our only source of data on North Korean IQ"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:48Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"I also think that lumping Japan in with South Korea and Taiwan etc is just wrong. Japan industrialized long before the others. And Singapore's natural geographic advantages means that it would have had to try very hard to not be a rich country today. If we're down to just China South Korea and Taiwan then 2/3 are just Chinese culture I think few would dispute that Korean culture has a bunch of similarities with Chinese culture and the 2/3 that industrialized sooner were high priority Cold War US protectorates. This is not a good dataset to draw causal conclusions off of at all"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:02Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Expanding more on the Japan point one of Richard's arguments for a long time is that it doesn't make much sense to put Japan in the same cultural cluster as China and South Korea therefore it doesn't make sense to explain Japan's "similar economic success" with a cultural explanation. Maybe. But the only reason why Japan looks economically "similar" to other East Asian countries now is because Japan's economic growth has been stagnating for the last XX years. Japan industrialized much earlier than other East Asian countries and as late as 1990 they were still by a large margin well ahead"
X Link 2025-12-09T04:50Z XXX followers, XX engagements
""in Finland" I repeat my call for a global ban on research into the effects of poverty that uses subjects living in Nordic social democracies"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:53Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"I'm inclined to side with Noah here Hanania's arguments strike me a lot as painting bullseyes around bulletholes. For example: "As long as they aren't subject to something as extreme as the rule of Mao." But the century before Mao is called by Chinese people their "century of national humiliation.""
X Link 2025-12-08T23:30Z XXX followers, XXX engagements
"Interesting comment on the Substack. The Dominican Republic is now richer than countries like Colombia. Would any HBD types have predicted that"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:13Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Here's a graph that was posted in Rich's own article. As you can see it makes zero sense to lump Japan in with the rest of East Asia apart from geographically exceptional Singapore prior to 1990"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:01Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Doesn't make any sense to lump Japan in with South Korea and Taiwan after 1990 either. The latter two have been growing much faster since 1990 and Japan is now poorer than the others after XX years of economic stagnation. Japan and South Korea ended up in a similar place now but their paths to get there were very different"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:04Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"We're only left with the question of whether China and South Korea are really that culturally similar but here's a graph that Rich presented in an earlier article as evidence against the idea that Japan should be lumped in with Korea and China culturally that shows that by this measure South Korea and mainland China appear to be indeed quite close. In fact they're closer to each other than mainland China is to Taiwan or Hong Kong"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:09Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"TLDR: There was no "East Asian success." There was a relatively recent pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success. And also separately Japan was much more successful than almost the entire rest of Asia from 1868 until 1990 and they've been badly economically stagnating for the last XX years. And that seems a lot less mysterious regardless of which theory of success you subscribe to"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:22Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Well the pan-ethnically Chinese and South Korean success part seems a lot less mysterious. I think that Japan's XX years and counting of stagnation looks pretty weird and seems understudied"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:24Z XXX followers, XX engagements
"Withdrawal that didn't happen until the end of March was "forced" in "early-mid March". This should have been a red flag that something was off about the story. And we now know for sure that they were leaving something really big out: at the time the Pentagon and presumably by extension the Ukrainians believed that there were at least XX BTGs waiting in Belarus to reinforce the Kyiv axis and likely encircle Kyiv"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:16Z XXX followers, X engagements