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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 October 2015 10:18:09PM 2 points [-]

Short Online Texts Thread

Comment author: gwern 02 October 2015 12:36:11AM 9 points [-]

Everything is heritable:

Politics/religion:

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

Psychology/biology:

Technology:

Economics:

Fiction:

Comment author: ChristianKl 04 October 2015 10:43:39AM 2 points [-]

"74 SNP hits on cognitive ability from 300k individuals"

It would be interesting to ask for them in a LW census.

Comment author: gwern 04 October 2015 11:07:14PM 1 point [-]

Maybe next year; they haven't been published yet. Asking for 74 would also be a heck of a hassle for survey takers... But Yvain could also just ask for the current known SNPs, which aren't so numerous as to be unreasonable to look up.

Comment author: knb 04 October 2015 05:37:54AM 2 points [-]

What do you find baffling about the Vallejo kidnapping?

Comment author: gwern 04 October 2015 11:08:16PM 3 points [-]

The absurd overelaborateness and complexity of the whole thing. It reads like a movie plot in the vein of Hackers or something, and if there was one thing I've learned documenting the hundreds of arrests connected to the DNMs, it's that movie plots are fiction.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 05 October 2015 03:50:57AM 3 points [-]

The arrested man reportedly has bipolar disorder. Mania is a hell of a drug.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 02 October 2015 08:44:29PM 2 points [-]

"Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today"

Similarly I would expect a modern artist in an industrialized society to draw a wheeled vehicle or a kitchen implement better, and a person from the pleistocene to draw plants from their environment or tools they use more accurately.

Comment author: Clarity 10 October 2015 04:28:43AM 0 points [-]

The Wikipedia article on Dukka