gnaritas

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by gnaritas 10y ago
Models are final solutions; causation is how you end up finding those final solutions: causation is understanding, it's vitally important.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> This is also true of astrology False. > and MBTI has as much scientific validity and predictive value. As it can be mapped directly to the big 5, this is also false.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
The correlation with pirates is real too, that's my point, correlations don't mean anything. Only causation is meaningful. The only use of a correlation is as a starting point for finding causation.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> I assure you with large enough sample size you will find some correlations though. I can correlations the drop in pirates with a rise in global temperature, so what... correlations don't mean a damn thing by themselves, that'
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No, you didn't anything relevant there about personality types; personality disorders are a vastly different subject. > I don't know much about astrology, Now we agree.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Myers-Briggs has a type label then assigns traits based on that label. False. It's exactly the opposite, the label doesn't assign the traits, rather the traits create the label; if your traits change so does the label, it&#x2
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by gnaritas 10y ago
It has everything to do with it, and it doesn't matter how or what a lot of people talk about astrology in terms of, it's absolute horseshit regardless of how they try and justify it. The stars, planets, etc have no relationship t
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Oh dear, I don't care what you like to harp on, take your sarcasm and shove it.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
And yet, misuse of a tool does not invalidate the tool; MBTI can do something the big 5 can't, assign a category which aids in thinking about and understanding another person which as someone else in this discussion points out can be s
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Those tendencies are still linked to a birthdate which makes them prescriptive, you cannot ignore the prescriptive element of astrology without ignoring astrology entirely.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> In the corporate world discussion of MBTI very quickly becomes idiotically prescriptive. Misuse of a tool does not invalidate the tool.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
I suggest you don't understand the distinction I'm making between descriptive and prescriptive.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> I have no doubt there is some correlation between astrological sign and personality. There's no evidence of this, so you should have doubts.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
They are not remotely comparable, Meyers Briggs is descriptive, Astrology is prescriptive and it's the prescriptive part that is nonsense. There is no connection to your personality and your birth date. Meyers Briggs is a classificati
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Yes, but it's also not diluted with a ton of fiber like fruit; don't be obtuse.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Yes, you actually have to be able to define what range of mixes counts as "balanced" before you can label anything as outside of that range. No, you don't; for example, eliminating one is not balanced now matter what num
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by gnaritas 10y ago
You don't have to be able to define balance, to point out unbalanced, and any diet largely cutting out one of the 3 is unbalanced. > I've eaten a low carb, high fat, moderate protein diet for about 4 years. All my blood marker
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> You can't do both. Yes you can, because unless you're being obtuse, I'm obviously talking about processed white sugar, not fructose found in real food.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Your argument is flawed, doctors prescribe lots of things that aren't good for you because for that person, they're better than the alternative, chemo for example. That something is done by doctors does not make it good. > but
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Yup, and it's too reactionary to problems that can be easily avoided by regulation, food safety for example. If it were up to the market, people would be dropping like flies because safety doesn't tend to increase short term prof
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Normal and healthy diets are balanced; most people's diets are excessively heavy in carbs, so no, I didn't neglect that at all. People should eat less carbs and more fat until they're somewhat of a balance, going in either di
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No, that assumes people are rational actors and they are not; preying on human psychology doesn't alleviate you of guilt, the companies are the problem, not their victims for not leaving.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
You're the one trying to make it black and white, he's simply saying that unlike private industry, government can have another motive be primary rather than profit, i.e. help it citizens as the primary goal. Yea, budgets aren&#x2
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by gnaritas 10y ago
He said eat normal and healthy, not eat low fat; low fat is also a fad diet. And yes, keto is a fad diet with no empirical evidence to support its claims, testimonials are not evidence. There was actually a recent scientific study done and
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by gnaritas 10y ago
Ah, OK that's much clearer, I understand now. I'd say this, picking A for what is now C would be just as arbitrary as there is no "first" scale, they're all equally important and trying to match up a first scale to
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> Quality over quantity is almost always a more desirable trait. For the reader, but for the creators of content who largely rely on ads, quantity is far more desirable.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
How does that make any sense at all? I don't see it making any more sense at all, not even a little bit. There's nothing arbitrary about C major/A minor being taught first as it's just the simplest scale with no sharps
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by gnaritas 10y ago
No, because that's the A minor scale, which is the same notes as the C major scale but starting at A. A scale should logically always start with its root note.
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by gnaritas 10y ago
> We don't understand the brain's learning mechanism well enough yet and once we do that will be recipe for AGI I don't think we have to understand it well enough for AGI to interface with it because it will adapt to the i
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by gnaritas 10y ago
True, but not relevant to whether the market is or isn't random, which is the topic.

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