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by iguy 8y ago
So the US should vacuum up all talent so hard it has no chance to coalesce elsewhere? I'm not sure this is a viable or even desirable strategy. The most likely competitors are in China. The actions of the Chinese government have much m
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Right, it's a mistake to think that there are a fixed number of low-skill jobs which need filling. A mistake encouraged by propaganda from those heavily invested in industries set up to employ them. Swiss people clean their own damn ho
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by iguy 8y ago
Thinking that demand is fixed would indeed be a flaw. But the right wikipedia link here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand : demand curves slope downwards. More sellers (of a given kind of labour) means
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by iguy 8y ago
Not on a 1-for-1 basis, but something like this is the argument for allowing free movement between comparable countries. If the UK, Canada & Australia opened up to each other, there'd be no massive net flow, but many individuals co
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by iguy 8y ago
We have numbers on this sort of thing. Here are some Swedish adoption studies (they track everyone) which, from a first glance, support the usual rule of half-half: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009
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And even for buildings, we have two conventions in use. Plus a debate about whether the ground floor is really a floor, or whether the word "floor" naturally implies something elevated above the ground...
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It doesn't seem surprising at all that we fail to understand abstract questions like this. The experts only learned to answer them correctly after millennia worth of mathematical development! To study how accurately Bayesian some anima
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by iguy 8y ago
This is true, but "no real opinion" can also be 100% against the individual. Look at the Saudis for instance, anyone think they have bothered to have a strong position on this? They care about royal blood lines obviously... but th
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I guess I'm dubious that you can engineer "surpluses are mostly derived by the state" while maintaining the credibility that makes an apartment in Vancouver so attractive in the first place. Those apartments have secure title
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What some insiders make of those articles: http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-truth-shall-make-yo...
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"boring, stable governance" as an export industry is a good observation. I think this is true of other places too, for example in London both the top-end property market, and arguably the City, are doing exactly this. It would be
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Part of what maintains the current fashion is this assertion that knowing certain facts might turn us into monsters. It’s unclear to me why so many people not only believe this, but think it so obvious as to require no justification. Note t
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In fact a little worse, right now: we can predict about 20% of the variance in IQ from brain shape [1] but only 10% from genes [2]. [1] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87270/ [2] https://www.nature.com&#
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by iguy 8y ago
For anyone else curious & lazy, here's a size comparison to some older iphones -- the Sony is a little bigger than an SE. https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Sony-Xpe...
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by iguy 8y ago
Yea this is true, call it sexual selection? Also, even if a smart car would be more convenient for almost everything you do, it won't work for some weekend trips, so you buy something bigger -- there's a bit of that going on too,
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I remain surprised that such niches don't get filled. Apple is weird, but what percentage of the market does the 100th most popular Android phone capture?
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Philip Bobbitt would argue that it was in large part different kinds of wars. The classic 20th C nation-state went hand-in-hand with 20th-C warfare: it needed both massive industry, and every single man. The Ottomans and other relics of ear
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If our concern is with results, then we should be looking for the best predictor of results, and school type may well improve our predictions, as you say. We should aim to admit to medical school the people who'll make the best doctors
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Well this is certainly one axis along which they vary. There's a line between "is it OK to start a start-up with your dorm-mate?" and "is it OK to spend 5% of the nation's budget buying submarines through your broth
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Judging people on their work is partly about fair play. But it's also justified by concern for the results. A system which rewards the people doing great work will produce much more of that than a system which rewards political connect
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Our best universities involve a symbiosis between the bright and the rich. They're famous for the talents of the brightest, which achieve their full extent because the rich paid... to be around this fame. This has, for a few centuries,
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Thanks!
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I believe that Shockley just missed the cutoff for this study. Because it had a fairly high weight on verbal score.
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Here's a good commentary: http://archive.is/QX6kB == https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-stor... Ford was paying above-par wages to have a more-stable workf
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Came here to say this. His factory needed a stable workforce, more so than most at the time -- because one screw-up could stop the line. And he was willing to pay for this. Hire the most stable, least-drunk, workers around. Of course he was
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Without expressing any opinion on who should have been hired here, some relevant facts: > number of citations Note that they're in slightly different fields, so that in addition to reservations about simple counting, you might expec
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I especially like the last paragraph: > “I don’t think he represents the majority view,” Covi said. “There were a few men who were there but they didn’t support his view.” After all, none of her friends stepped forward to object that she
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Yes: different times. These marriage patterns changed sometime long before 1500, maybe circa 1000AD -- so if the church had a hand in it, it's the medieval church. The places where this pattern was strongest went on to invent Protestan
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"when they say height is mostly genetic ... under current social conditions" This is always what's meant. Perhaps it should be said more often... but nobody doubts that we can grow a bonsai. The interesting question is how mu
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Re processing of DNA etc, this isn't the level these studies are typically working at. There's no biochemistry knowledge involved. They are just looking at DNA sequences, and what data they have about outcomes. Whether a piece of

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