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by tashi 11y ago
Couldn't the causation also have run the other way? Say, increased CEO salaries for companies with rising stock prices led CEOs to optimize for the short term, with layoffs, cutting research departments and pension plans, etc.?
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by tashi 12y ago
Sure. If you have celiac disease, try California. Your doctor can write you a note so that you don't have to eat food that could be debilitating or life-threatening. Simple health issues aside, it's a weird fact I have trouble wra
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by tashi 12y ago
An alternative theory is that we have evolved just to be good at distinguishing changing facial expressions (and body language), especially within our own social groups. Using this skill to match people's expressions with their behavio
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by tashi 13y ago
There's a reason you don't often see phrases like, "Can't prove a negative," used by people whose job is to evaluate security risks. The relevant way of approaching problems like these tends to use a lot less Boole
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by tashi 13y ago
Imagine you're a guard there and I drop by every day for a meal. You're wondering if I'm a a terrorist looking for security holes while I eat, and your biggest concern is false negatives: you would hate to rule me out as a th
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by tashi 13y ago
I would say that most superstitions are formed by noticing that two things in one's past experience were related in some way and assuming that the relationship will continue in the future. That's correlation. Of course, some peopl
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by tashi 13y ago
I'm one of the people who would say it's not that easy, and I'm a little confused by using "but it actually is" as an apparent counterargument. Could you please elaborate?
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by tashi 13y ago
Unfortunately for the early adopters, Google didn't go public for another six years, and all their early funding came from people who were already rich.
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by tashi 14y ago
A third train of thought is that we evolved to live in groups, able to show great empathy--the source of most "good" actions--for members of our group, and no empathy at all for anyone else. That would acknowledge our natural tendencies to