Nick_Tarleton comments on Two Truths and a Lie - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Psychohistorian 23 December 2009 06:34AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 24 December 2009 12:41:12AM *  0 points [-]

Sexually selected traits are necessarily historically contingent, but you can't just explain away any hereditary handicap as a product of sexual selection: the theory makes the nontrivial prediction that mate selection will depend on such traits.

Hmm. Generalization: a theory that concentrates probability mass in a high-dimensional space might not do so in a lower-dimensional projection. This seems important, but maybe only because I find false claims of nonfalsifiability/lack of predictive power very annoying.

Comment author: Cyan 24 December 2009 04:14:36AM 1 point [-]

I'm having trouble seeing the relation between your comment and mine, but I'm intrigued and <strike>wish to subscribe to your newsletter</strike> would like to see it spelled out a bit.