spruciefic399

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by spruciefic399 8y ago
To be consistent, you'd have to leverage your arguments against other fields with replication crises, which include neuroscience and oncology. It's really true of the biomedical sciences in general. Psychology has a history of bei
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
I was sort of on board with the two-paper rule until I got to the arguments about the reviews. Maybe in his mind integrating literature into a cohesive summary (ala meta-analysis) is a novel contribution, but if not, the attitude behind the
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
I was going to post something about methadone. I saw the same parallel, but see it the opposite of you maybe. To me, if people are taking kratom and it's helping them, why take that out of their control and use it to pad the pockets of
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Just want to point out that the idea that males are being persecuted for their gender isn't necessarily a fringe incel position. For example, Doris Lessing--yes, that Doris Lessing--is expressing concerns about treatment of men: htt
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Honestly, I might just jump in and learn Rust. I think it's a good place to start with memory management issues because you have to deal with it but good practice is enforced. C/C++ is the obvious alternative for that level of pro
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Unfortunately, I think you're right. From my perspective, this is exactly the sort of government-sanctioned monopoly / rent-seeking that's causing so much income inequality and economic pathology. The government should be enc
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Reading through that paper I'm not sure exactly what's new about it above and beyond what has been in a lot of the evolutionary algorithm literature, other than maybe formal proofs (which would be important). I'm sure I'
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
I think the problem with that argument is that the reasons an individual might be good allocating their own capital are distinct from the reasons they have capital, or what is justified, in the sense of ethical or societally defensible. A s
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
I agree completely with what you wrote, but wanted to add something, which is a comparison between reactions to the Bem ESP study and work on the EM Drive ( https://www.space.com/40682-em-drive-impossible-space-thrust... ). A
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
People drink bleach to cure autism. Should we ban bleach? First, there's a difference between allowing the sale and distribution of a substance at all and selling it with a claim. All I would say is that [almost?] no substance's s
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
My thoughts: 1. In general I don't see the government's role being to police snake oil salespersons. Fraud in the form of inaccurate ingredient lists, etc. but not the snake oil itself (people should be able to sell snake oil, but
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful (I'm not talking about label accuracy; I see that as m
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Meta-analysis as we know it today is largely as it is because of psychologists using it to study therapy effects. Referring to Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment as the "emblem of its field" is a bit strange in my opinion
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
I think the evidence begs to differ: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3475 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130571...
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
This is a paper that I'm glad was published (maybe not Cell, but somewhere), because it presents an interesting and pretty clear theory. At the same time, it seems like it's fairly clearly falsifiable almost on its face, because t
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
I've had similar personal experiences to you and work in health care, and share your skepticism. What I think people are skeptical of today is not necessarily expertise, but credentialism and the idea that expertise should supercede ot
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Perhaps. I'd prefer it not to--I'd rather have an ecosystem with private and public competition, and one with net neutrality regulation. But it seems to me the discussion is generally really lopsided, with little to no acknowledgm
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
1. Monopolization has increased in markets in general (see: ATT-Time Warner merger). 2. ISPs have realized what they can do with their increased monopolies, and have started developing technical strategies for doing so. 3. Regardless of thi
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by spruciefic399 8y ago
Another strategy to this (not exclusive of other strategies) is to encourage municipal ISPs, or even go further and roll out federal ISP infrastructure ala the federal highway system. I've always thought that this would be well within