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by hntrader 6y ago
The only positive claim I've made is that there's nontrivial biological causes, for which there's a substantial and growing body of evidence. I haven't moderated or changed my claim since we started this conversation. Yo
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My claim is actually fairly mild, it's not "abject speculation" to say that there's nontrivial biological causes behind political belief. The introduction just summarized five decades of peer reviewed research claiming t
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"You need to re-read the single study you cited." No, you need to reread it, especially the introduction to the paper. Their whole point is that social scientists need to incorporate a growing body of evidence develop
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"one small part" This is an inaccurate (or at best presumptively overconfident) portrayal of extant science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/ "not the overridin
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Political beliefs are caused by brain structure and personality traits, in an interaction with environment/identity/self-interest. You saying people can just change their political beliefs when there are scientifically known biolo
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A conservative can shrink their amygdala in response to verbal feedback? A conservative can become low-orderliness when they've been high-orderliness since childhood? This is gay-conversion therapy territory.
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by hntrader 6y ago
This is a great question and I hope you get an answer to this. The number of woeful ad-hoc solutions I've seen to people handling matrix data in Java/C# for what should've been otherwise very basic analysis ... Something with
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by hntrader 6y ago
> gone almost 5 decades with no new banks Branchless banking seems like a capability enabled only in the last 15 years by widespread internet adoption among customers as well as a transition to a cashless economy in the last 5 years. Bef
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It's a false dichotomy to begin with. If political belief is caused by personality traits (e.g. orderliness) and brain structure (e.g. amygdala size), is it really a choice?
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HK vs the CCP isn't a great case study, because the center of power is outside of the country and it isn't mixed in with the disgruntled people. A better counterfactual case study would be North Korea, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia
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> Lumping them in with burglaries on a 1:1 basis seems like poor moral calculus, no Yes, and I'm not advocating for that. My only point is that "less gun deaths in countries without legal guns" isn't addressing the or
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> in determining how many people get shot The argument is that legal guns increase gun deaths but reduce other types of crime, either by substitution (e.g. reducing knife crime) or by deterrence (e.g. reducing home burglaries). That clai
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> crimes in general go down as more people carry firearms legally Has this been established through natural experiment?
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The (largely theoretical) argument is asymmetric warfare where the dictator and their family/sycophants/officers need to be constantly preoccupied with a credible threat of an assassin around every corner. This asymmetric warfare
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> conniving, backstabbing and sheer incompetence of many people you get to work with This social conflict aspect is probably the most common reason for workplace burnout/PTSD/etc. The work itself is rarely that stressful, it&#x
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Of course not, this is a strawman. I was disputing the positive claim that it isn't genetic, I was not claiming that heritability implies genetic determinism.
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As I said, it's irrelevant since assignment is mostly random at birth. The law of large numbers takes care of trivial differences since those differences are largely randomized.
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"they certainly have the right" Nobody is arguing that they don't have that right, so this is little more than a strawman. Expressing disagreement (or even dismay) with a company's decision isn't inconsisten
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That's not what the post is claiming.
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It's an over the counter supplement that's purportedly anti-anxiety and sleep-promoting.
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> don't really refer to reality The terms refer to an abstracted and coarse version of reality. They don't have zero utility, even if the criticisms are fitting.
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> They're enough to explain 20% women at the +4 SD level if I recall correctly That's right if we're looking at univariable distributions. > But there are too many people in STEM fields for them to be so selective. Actu
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Summers did, read his exact words. He's not only talking about gender balance in science but about top performers specifically. Also now that you mention it, there are mean level differences at a young age in interests (people vs thing
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Everyone already agrees that there aren't meaningful mean-level differences between the sexes, aside from in a small handful of personality traits or irrelevant physical traits. You still haven't addressed why different variances
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by hntrader 6y ago
So you know the variability hypothesis to be false, then? Or you know it to have no real world consequences? How did you acquire such knowledge? "boys were falling behind academically" This also follows from the variability
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It also makes sense when the software has high recurring marginal costs per user (so, not calendar software), such as with high ongoing data egress costs (Dropbox, Netflix, YouTube). The model there needs to be subscription or advertising.
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"I doubt they care" Jealousy and envy is often what's behind bitterness and resentment
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The pretension is the point. The readers want to come across as sophisticated by claiming to have understood impenetrable gibberish.
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A lot of journalists have gone down a very tracked and credentialed path, having gone through prestigious institution after prestigious institution to end up in another prestigious institution. To see someone bypass all the gatekeepers and
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The traffic to a restaurant isn't uniformly distributed over an hour window. There's a peak 30-min in the morning just before work starts for most people, for example.

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