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by pdonis 1y ago
Just saw this and upvoted it. I'm glad you got some value out of my posts, and thanks for this response.
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by pdonis 1y ago
> I don't know if that's a widespread definition of "vaccine". Wikipedia [1]: "A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease."
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by pdonis 1y ago
> As a moral obligation, yes. So you think that, for example, every single person who uses LibreOffice is morally obligated to contribute code to the project? Even though the vast majority of them don't even know how to code?
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by pdonis 1y ago
> It's arguable it never would have been rush approved if it had been someone else in the White House! I don't think so. Biden pushed the Covid vaccines even harder than Trump did. If Trump had been in the White House I don&#
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Part of me suspects psychology is your domain, and you may be an academic Neither of these are true. > or at least have some graduate experience. I do, but not in psychology. My degrees are in engineering. > I would have rea
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by pdonis 1y ago
> I made the request to try and tease apart where we disagree exactly. I thought that was obvious: you're making a claim about how individual people's confidence vs. competence evolves over time, that as far as I know is not
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by pdonis 1y ago
Please respond in the other subthread where I made my points in more detail. As you will see from that more detailed post, I never made either of the claims you are asking about here.
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by pdonis 1y ago
> people can learn without a deliberate intent to learn. As far as I am aware right now, deliberate intent has nothing to do with DK I agree with this: DK's research wasn't about whether anyone is trying to learn anything; AF
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by pdonis 1y ago
I responded to this in another post in response to you upthread. The short version is that I don't agree with you about what is and is not "self-evident" here, nor will I accept your unsupported word that whatever research do
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by pdonis 1y ago
> the over-time aspect is kind of self-evident It's self-evident that, in order to become a master at anything, you have to pass through increasing levels of competence to get there. It is not at all self-evident, at least not to
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by pdonis 1y ago
> if you google "Dunning Kruger Effect" and then look at the images Then I would be doing a very poor job of actually researching the topic. If you are aware of any actual research papers that describe actually studying how t
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by pdonis 1y ago
I agree with this except for the "anymore" part. We never could trust them. It just wasn't as obvious before as it is now.
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by pdonis 1y ago
"Could" based on what research?
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by pdonis 1y ago
> when we learn an overview about our new topic our confidence (in understanding) greatly exceeds our competence, then we learn how much we don't know and our confidence crashes below our actual competence, and then eventually, whe
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by pdonis 1y ago
> the real "effect" is how confidence and competence evolve over time What research is this based on?
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Dunning-Kruger effect is more about how confidence and competence evolve over time. I don't think there is anything about this in the actual research underlying the Dunning-Kruger effect. They didn't study people over time
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Dunning-Kruger is the relationship between confidence and competence as people learn about new subjects Um, no, it isn't. From the article: "A cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have s
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Why would you assume this? It's not correct. None of your references contradict it, as far as I can see. I'm well aware that Type 1a supernovae are only part of the overall picture, but that observation doesn't contrad
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by pdonis 1y ago
No. The simplest example is a matter-dominated universe at exactly the critical density. It decelerates forever but never quite stops expanding--the expansion rate asymptotes to zero.
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Anyone know how credible this is? AFAIK the previous models that all assumed that Type 1a supernovae were not affected by the age of the progenitor stars had no actual analysis to back that up; it was just the simplest assumption. Th
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by pdonis 1y ago
> If true, then that means the big bounce is back on the menu I don't think so. Deceleration does not imply recollapse. AFAIK none of this changes the basic fact that there isn't enough matter in the universe to cause it to r
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Why is a shutdown even possible? Because much of what the US government does, including paying most of its employees, is funded by annual appropriations, which are only valid for one particular fiscal year. As soon as that fiscal yea
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by pdonis 1y ago
> storing everything was never a requirement It might not be for you. I think it was for the poster I originally responded to. If you don't, then I guess we'll just have to disagree about that. From other posts in this discus
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by pdonis 1y ago
> this act has likely saved millions of lives through early diagnosis of preventable diseases and early intervention on disabilities Why does the state have to collect and keep the sample for that to happen? Why can't it be the pr
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by pdonis 1y ago
> The claim that everything is there does not imply infinite, or even large capacity. It implies enough capacity to store everything. But what you describe is not storing everything. > lossy compression Which means you're
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by pdonis 1y ago
> human life is not infinite in time and memories do not accumulate at an infinite rate in storage consumed per unit time Which would put it into the category of the second part of my comment--which the person I was responding to said
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by pdonis 1y ago
> I don't think we come close to the theoretical storage limit That was the point of the second part of my comment--which the person I was responding to said was not relevant to what he meant.
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by pdonis 1y ago
> i can't give you evidence of those things you made up yourself. I didn't ask for that. I asked if you have references for what you said. Even if I misunderstood you, that shouldn't be a reason for you not to give ref
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by pdonis 1y ago
If you are implying that human memory has infinite capacity, that's not possible. The human brain is a finite, physical thing. It can't store an infinite amount of data. If you just mean that human memory has a finite capacity tha
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by pdonis 1y ago
> About one in 20 ejections results in death But more than that result in injury. The possible injuries are pretty severe. > Compare to 20 in 20 jet airplane crashes resulting in death Crashes if the plane is totally uncontrollabl

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