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Lumifer comments on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 September 2014 12:46:32AM 3 points [-]

genes don't change over a lifetime

But their expression does.

They're not a large part of what's going on.

How do you know?

Comment author: gwern 14 September 2014 09:37:12PM 1 point [-]

But their expression does.

An expression in circumstances dictated by what genes one started with.

How do you know?

Because if they were a large part of what was going on, the estimates would not break down cleanly and the methods work so well.