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by hedgew 11y ago
It's well known that birth rate decreases as a nation's economic status increases. India has also gone through massive economic changes in the last 50 years, which is likely to have affected fertility rates much more than propagan
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by hedgew 11y ago
Marriage is probably a high risk factor for entrepreneurs. "In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor." "I even had to endure her attempt to enjoin my c
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by hedgew 11y ago
Who I am as a person has nothing to do with the argument.
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by hedgew 11y ago
I used schistosomiasis as an example because its effects and treatments have been widely studied. "Research by J-PAL affiliates Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel has shown that school-based deworming is one of the most cost-effective me
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by hedgew 11y ago
One simple reason for not building gold watches is that we have much cheaper materials that are also superior in every way - except sex appeal. A treatment for schistosomiasis (a common tropical parasitic worm) costs $0.50 per year. So for
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by hedgew 12y ago
Awesome. The faster we can automate military and police work the faster we can move away from democracy, into more efficient forms of government.
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by hedgew 12y ago
The media loves gender-related news because they are so divisive. They provoke our emotions and pull us into wasteful and hateful arguments. Such news are almost always the most read ones - the most profitable ones.
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by hedgew 12y ago
You could study human behavior in as many different cultures as possible to discover universalities, or study children before they are influenced by culture. Both of which have been done extensively.
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by hedgew 12y ago
The widely unacknowledged paradox is that eradication of sexism will actually increase occupational gender imbalances. Gender equality and national wealth will lead people to choose careers that most appeal to them. The likely truth is that
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The Growth Mindset: Telling Penguins to Flap Harder?(disidealist.wordpress.com)
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by hedgew 12y ago
Becoming better or more successful by reading about biases seems difficult. After reading Kahneman, Ariely, and others, I've sort of come to the conclusion that a lot of people naturally behave in a way that exploits others' biase
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by hedgew 12y ago
We have pretty good ideas on how humans or other intelligent agents could "treat each other right". Philosophers, and people who study game theory in particular, have many answers to this problem. The prisoner's dilemma is a
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by hedgew 12y ago
Sounds neat, but.. - How are you going to scale production to meet demands? Does not look like you could reach the kind of growth YC wants. - Who is this guy and why should I trust his guns? How do I tell how many bullets I have left? - See
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by hedgew 12y ago
Not at all true. The simple fact that we're born with two legs is proof that massive amounts of information about our surrounding world is already encoded into us before birth. It took millions of years for life to develop this novel m
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by hedgew 12y ago
Many people are genuinely not "smart" enough. Saying they are, is likely to cause suffering and waste resources, on both personal and societal levels. It's also insulting towards the intellectually disabled. "I'm no
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by hedgew 12y ago
Many of us "care" about languages – they have emotional significance – but what is the practical value of near-dead languages to society? How would you even measure the impact of lengthening the lifespan of a dying language? If we
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by hedgew 12y ago
Forcing people who genuinely are not smart enough into sciences is sure to cause a lot of suffering and wasted time, though. Many of us here have social circles that consists only of the highly educated; in these bubbles it's easy to f
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by hedgew 12y ago
>To repeat: you cannot compartmentalize. Yes you can, and you very much should. A simple example: If all your hobbies (tennis, painting, and guitar) rely on the use of your right hand, you'll be much unhappier when your right hand i
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by hedgew 12y ago
Try standing on a wobble board[1] while using a standing desk. I don't know if it's any healthier, but it is more fun, feels more comfortable, and keeps you moving. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_bo
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by hedgew 12y ago
To summarize: Viv is a smarter Siri, that could be implemented in various devices and applications, in different contexts. However, “Viv is potentially very big, but it’s all still potential” . The article also, is nothing but hype.
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by hedgew 12y ago
>Sadness tends to have a source. Depression does not. All depression has a source. Often we simply can not understand it (neither scientifically nor socially). When we do understand the source, it can lead to more effective treatment; su
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Weird Psychiatric Ads Of The Seventies(slatestarcodex.com)
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by hedgew 12y ago
Why would it be different for men?
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by hedgew 12y ago
Bullying is mainly a way of gaining status and popularity for youth. They gain advantages for themselves by abusing those weaker than them. Think a bit about how offensive your question is, though. I am quite disgusted when people ask it fr
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by hedgew 13y ago
How much money would you bet on the answer to the question being "no"? Based on the evidence we have, couples in more equal relationships seem to have less sex and are less satisfied with the sex. This is a conclusion based on sta
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by hedgew 13y ago
This is wrong. According to the original study, the gender stereotype couple would be having sex 39 times a month if the equal couple has sex 26 times. This is for couples at opposite ends of the spectrum.
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by hedgew 13y ago
Yes. If you read the paper you will find out that not only do such couples have more than 1.5 times more sex, the women are more sexually satisfied. Husband’s share of core housework is very heavily negatively correlated (p < .001) with
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by hedgew 13y ago
That pressure is not only external - it's also internal[1]. Often it's a wasted effort to try and treat your children in gender-neutral ways, they simply prefer to play with dolls and robots, and then you're just forcing your
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by hedgew 13y ago
If you discount households with negative net worth, the Walmart heirs' wealth is still equal to the combined net worth of the bottom 28%, which translates to about 33 million households. Of course, wealth is not the only statistic we s
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by hedgew 13y ago
The six Walmart heirs have more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined.

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