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by concordDance 2y ago
It would by a "correlational clusters" gender definition put some transwomen in a mostly male gender (though, again, you'd have a lot more than two genders with with that definition). And correlational clusters is one of the
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by concordDance 2y ago
If I'm in green tech can I set up a charity whose goal is to raise awareness of the problems of climate change and what we can do to fight it? I'll claim that I really care about it and that's why I'm in the solar busine
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by concordDance 2y ago
That particular debate is often a semantics debate, so it isn't in the domain of science at all. The main way I can think of off-hand to try and make it scientific is to ask about correlational clusters. And then you get way more than
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Or, maybe, "leaning left" by the standards of Zuck et al. is more in alignment with the global population. The global population would be considered far-right by american standards. Particularly on LGBTQ matters and racism.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> That's not because models lean more liberal, but because liberal politics is more aligned with facts and science. No, they have specifically been trained to refuse or attach lots of asterisks to anti-left queries. They've got
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by concordDance 2y ago
Actually, even there there would be caveats. E.g. maybe Russia would benefit from climate change? Maybe the cost benefit curve with my time discounting and likely tech advancement means its not worth doing anything about now?
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by concordDance 2y ago
> They are nit trying to make it cheaper and they are not trying to make it more accessible Should they be doing these things? Maybe I've read too much Caplan, but credential inflation seems to be wasting the new generation's b
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by concordDance 2y ago
I probably have a skewed sample, but in my observations those with the best reasoning skills tended to have a mix of views that would be labelled "left" and "right". The better the reasoning skills the less likely they w
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by concordDance 2y ago
How massive?
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by concordDance 2y ago
On the scale of concern, voter ID is way down there. You've already had both "prosecute main political opponent" and "storm the legislature". Voter ID is very common and sensible. The UK introduced it recently and w
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by concordDance 2y ago
Can we have some numbers/citations on the proportion of democrat and republican voters without ID? Because I've heard that it will benefit Democrats and is a Reoublican own goal.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Yeah, but there's a big difference between dying a few months earlier when you'd already be bedridden with your mind mostly gone and dying 50 years early. Which is why QALYs are such a good metric.
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by concordDance 2y ago
What's this a reference to? Not familiar with JIRA humiliation rituals.
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by concordDance 2y ago
I'd put the Telegraph as the right wing equivalent of the Guardian. Biased in the opposite direction but relatively reliable too.
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by concordDance 2y ago
I wouldn't call the writers excellent. The guardian is famous for its typos. (Separately the writing style is mostly not to my taste, but that's subjective)
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by concordDance 2y ago
> you can get better IQ by investing in education, something that we do an embarrassing job of already and need to improve on. You got a cite for this? I keep hearing that the education interventions tried in the West have universally fa
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by concordDance 2y ago
Do they do much floridation though?
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by concordDance 2y ago
This stance is a bit confusing... When it comes to things like radioactivity we assume a linear no threshhold model (e.g. that lower concentrations still have effects, just our measuring tools aren't good enough to detect it) and spend
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by concordDance 2y ago
> The US has had water fluoridation for 65 years, affecting 346 million people. That's a pretty big god damn sample size and long amount of time in which to observe effects. If we still have no proof of significant negative health e
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by concordDance 2y ago
The UK government is really big on doing things for our own good, but they don't seem to do much water flouridation. Which I think is some evidence that it's not a clearcut health benefit.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Meanwhile, he deletes your account if you offend him Willing to bet this is not true.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Could also be because rate limiting. People need to conserve their number of posts per day.
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by concordDance 2y ago
I can't tell if you're serious, but in case you are: The Drake Equation and anthropic reasoning are both frequently discussed in rationist circles.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Words mean what people think they mean. People often mean slightly different (or very different!) things when using the same word. Often words are used non-literally. This all seemed too obvious to mention before now.
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by concordDance 2y ago
I'm afraid you'll find far more non-literal uses of "stranded" than you will find literal ones if you looked at how humans actually use words. In fact, I'd be surprised if even 1 in 100 actual uses of the word in, s
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by concordDance 2y ago
This is a really fascinating case of words having a venacular meaning that become fuzzy out of their normal domain. Could the astronauts have gone back to Earth in an emergency? Yes. Did they have the freedom to leave earlier? Sortof but no
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by concordDance 2y ago
I can tell this is a polarizing comment because it's been bouncing back and forth from -1 to +5 repeatedlt, but I don't really understand why... Maybe one of the downvoters can explain?
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by concordDance 2y ago
I thought some of those were still free. Do you have information to the contrary? Edit: italicized
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by concordDance 2y ago
In cases like this it's best to ask why we have copyright law in the first place. Do we feel the supply of such photos is naturally lower then we'd like to such an extent that we'd grant a legally enforced monopoly on its dis
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by concordDance 2y ago
I've heard rumors that SpaceX suggested another mission to bring them back earlier, but as it would only have been a couple of months earlier NASA very sensibly declined (not worth >100 million to reduce their time in space by a thi

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