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by _yvjs 9y ago
> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. There's a reason for this Monty Python skit: https://www.youtube
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by _yvjs 9y ago
I just remembered this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVR27dKuQY , a chimpanzee smoking a cig somewhere in China.
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by _yvjs 9y ago
I like the following anecdote of Darwin's (though it's from quite a bit later in time): Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and spiritous liquors: they will also, as I have myself seen, smoke tobacco with pl
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by _yvjs 10y ago
The sentiment is lifted directly from the linked post. It's hard to argue with given the subcontinent had agricultural, seafaring populations while Australian populations never made it past Paleolithic hunter-gathering.
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by _yvjs 10y ago
here's some interesting speculation on this topic: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-three-hour-tour/ Basically there's genetic (Y chromosome) and linguistic evidence suggesting an in
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by _yvjs 10y ago
If you're a remotely rational government, why would you not subsidize it? The dividends you could reap from a population with greater health, intelligence, self-control, low time-preference, etc., would be ridiculous. Of course maybe p
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by _yvjs 10y ago
> 90% of genetic variance in human races exists in the African continent Counting neutral variation (the vast majority of genetic variation). You can get plenty of variation in non-coding DNA from drift without any effect on the variance
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by _yvjs 10y ago
*related since this doesn't seem familiar to people, a little more detail: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/16/did-falling-testosteron... https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-looku
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by _yvjs 10y ago
relsted to the secular decline in testosterone (whatever's causing that)?
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by _yvjs 10y ago
I've heard that there was a sharp increase from the early 20th century to the 70s-80s, then a small decline since then (maybe due to deleading gasoline among other things), and it seems to have happened in other countries too http:&#x
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by _yvjs 10y ago
Alternate perspective: "Rethinking the Transmission Gap: What Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology Mean for Attachment Theory", https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303952365_Rethinkin... &quot
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by _yvjs 10y ago
Has Thiel described himself as "libertarian" recently? Even if he has, I'm not sure he means it in the same sense as the general population. I like Samuel Hammond's analysis. His shorthand for Thiel's political phil
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by _yvjs 10y ago
There was an interesting study looking at measures of honesty and economic growth: https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/3154295/7054672/Honesty+pape... . Chinese nationals were in the top 2 of both measures of dish
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by _yvjs 10y ago
No self-experiments but he has posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/537w8h/phys... , a twin study showing decreased body fat and increased grey matter in response to exercise.
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by _yvjs 10y ago
Yeah I was skimming replies and didn't notice the thrust of your comment. But I stand by my statement about that particular conversation. Based off what I've seen, if Twitter goes under, I expect one of the participants (pseudoera
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by _yvjs 10y ago
G+ was good (a lot of academics were using it heavily for a while and I think John Baez, for example, still is), but it never accumulated much of a userbase (the reason I don't spend much time on it and probably the same reason you don
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by _yvjs 10y ago
Facebook is a walled garden w/ no anonymity. Privacy (specifically, most posts are only seen by friends of poster) can be good but it can also stifle discussion. Google Plus might have been good (and got some notable adoption among aca
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by _yvjs 10y ago
Here's one discussion that I don't think could have taken place on another social network: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/771434850863583233 . There a lot of people I follow on Twitter who value th
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by _yvjs 10y ago
There's preliminary evidence for weak but steady selection against cognitive ability and/or educational attainment over the past century. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/05/037929
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by _yvjs 10y ago
I'd recommend it. I was grandfathered into the free plan but $11/year seems fair. Regardless of what you settle on I'd look for the equivalent of http://www.packal.org/workflow/alfred-pinboard for whatev
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by _yvjs 10y ago
I've started keeping such a list actually: [redacted]
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by _yvjs 10y ago
I like the scenarios described in https://carcinisation.com/2015/07/23/defensive-epistemology/ . One of them is using the efficient market hypothesis (true enough for this application) to avoid being take
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by _yvjs 10y ago
Yes, they still haven't replied to a question about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4p5xgx/ai_hedge_fu... Based off that article they don't seem to understand the homomorphic in
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by _yvjs 10y ago
The point he's making is that Facebook can't be trusted to self-regulate (in the context of privacy). With that assumption you probably wouldn't accept their opaque self-investigation so placidly. I think the point is that a