orthonormal comments on Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong
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So, in other words, you mean precisely what Cyan and I had assumed you meant, but you refuse to acknowledge that the word "correlation" has an unambiguous and universal meaning that differs greatly from your usage of it; if you persist in this, you will misinterpret correlation to mean implication where it does not.
For example, smoking is correlated with lung cancer, but a randomly chosen smoker probably does not have lung cancer.
I don't know what else to say on this topic, other than that this is not a case of you being contrarian: you are simply wrong, and you should do yourself the favor of admitting it.
ETA: I'm going to leave this thread now, as the delicious irony of catching Annoyance in a tangential error is not a worthy feeling for a rationalist to pursue.