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gwern comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 18 June 2013 08:39:21PM 6 points [-]

The impulse control they use is a facet of Conscientiousness; and we already know Conscientiousness is highly heritable...

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 19 June 2013 04:24:49AM 5 points [-]

Yes, but it is still potentially useful to know how much of the heritability is metabolically vs. behaviorally manifested.

Also more generally, we should be careful about mixing different levels of causation.