lambdaphagy

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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Elsewhere in the thread I argue why efficient market hypothesis arguments are unlikely to fully apply in this case.
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
OP has a reasonable concern, I just don't think it's the only consideration at play.
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
My own view is not that self-experimentation is an appropriate, let alone likely efficacious, substitute for reconciliation to the idea of one's death. I certainly don't endorse interference in others' treatment, however wel
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
I admire your optimism in epidemiology. In point of fact, though, we have a rough natural experiment in the form of a food that doesn't cure a disease, but rather makes half of all drugs worse . That's very valuable knowledge
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
To give a practical example, grapefruit juice contains some compounds that inhibit CYP3A4, a metabolic enzyme that influences the metabolism and absorption of many drugs, which is why many prescriptions tell you not to drink it while taking
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
My impression formed from my time in cancer drug discovery is that bro science is, within practical bounds, a perfectly reasonable option for one arm of a comprehensive plan for treatment. A lot of things that sound like bro science are act
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that attempts to account for a very difficult problem: why there are apparently two different realms of phenomena, physical and mental, that are at once tightly connected and yet as different f
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
If architectural beauty is subjective, that’s an even stronger argument for building stuff that broad majorities find pleasing instead of stuff designed by architects who write manifestos about how much they hate beauty.
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Consider the analogy: the difference between two programs is one line of source, and most end users couldn’t tell you the practical consequences of that change. The Orthodox allege that the Filioque amounts to a demotion of the Holy Spirit.
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
I guess I've just never felt as though my condolences for a grieving family were a prize to be earned.
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
I recently had the occasion to visit the deathbed of a relative who died with much of his family deeply wounded by, and angry at, him. Had you known him, you might have called him a horrible person and not without some backing for that cla
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Maybe a more charitable reading is: "make every good faith effort to cooperate with your family's attempts to mourn your death"
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Sound advice. Conversely: always have a funeral. I know several people who expressed a wish not to have a funeral. Sometimes this wish stems from a desire not to be an inconvenience, or a sense of guilt or shame that one's life was no
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
It's difficult to characterize the social sciences as a whole. There's some great work, some mediocre but honest work, some deliberate fraud, and an awful lot of venial epistemic sins. But for the most part, the social sciences h
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Also peer review in its current form was a postwar invention, meaning that for the majority its history it was not regularly employed, let alone considered to be a line of demarcation between science and non-science. Having been on both sid
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
It’s often unclear whether the decision to remove politically unfavorable content is a pure business decision or the result of informal lobbying of such companies by the government. The White House has often made requests about the removal
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Thanks, yours too! My impression is that "gospel" (evangelion, G2098) is used exclusively to refer to something like "the good news of the Kingdom of God" rather than this or that manuscript or written account. The wor
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
The claim that the authorship was not reported for ~90 years (not 140!) is an inference based on the surviving material from a literary culture very different from our own, separated from us by 2,000 years. Walter Ong's Orality and Li
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
Maybe I missed it but the article doesn’t appear to control for genetics. This is crucial because: 1. Dysfunctional reward processing in parents plausibly causes early life adversity in their children, and 2. Dysfunctional reward processin
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
I find it odd how often people feel obliged to make these kinds of disclaimers about Catholic philosophers (one can find more downthread), as though we ought to handle their work with mental ice tongs or something. When I first studied phil
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
I've done judo for years, but I don't think knowing how to fall helps much when you get hit by a car.
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by lambdaphagy 2y ago
I'm a pretty proficient cyclist (lifetime mileage in the tens of thousands) but there have still been a handful of incidents where I've been very grateful to have had a helmet. It might be the case that helmets are a net negativ
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
Florman's _The Existential Pleasures of Engineering_.
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
OP originally disputed the claim of a "crime wave", arguing with mistaken math that homicides--the most statistically reliable measure of crime--have only increased by 2% since 2014. (In fact it's more like 50%.) I corrected
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
> These are good at solving crimes, but not preventing them. In the long run, solving crimes is preventing them because crime (especially serious violent crime) is Pareto-distributed. > This is true, but you still have to get the pati
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
It's not my method, it's the calculation of the percentage increase, which is the way of comparing 2021 and 2014's homicide rates that you originally proposed. The y-axis of the chart you linked records the national homicide
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
The data you linked and the comparison you suggest (2014 vs 2021) shows a ~54% increase in homicides over that time period ((6.81 homicides / 100k people / yr) / (4.40 / homicides / 100k people / yr) ~= 1.54.
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
Cheng talks a lot about colonialism inn _Is Maths Real_ but here is the closest thing to an argument for the claim that I could locate: > “Now, at the same time as all this, it is true that mathematics as a field has grown carefully and
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
I think that if I were being interviewed and my interviewer said "you also discuss how colonialist ideology has influenced modern mathematics?", but I didn't think that colonialist ideology has influenced modern mathematics,
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by lambdaphagy 3y ago
I appreciated Eugenia Cheng's youtube lectures on category theory and I know interviews aren't the best format for sustained exposition, but the remark about mathematical rigor being a European colonialist thing seemed pretty forc

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