gwern comments on October 2015 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion
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Everything is heritable:
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Technology:
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Fiction:
It would be interesting to ask for them in a LW census.
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.
What do you find baffling about the Vallejo kidnapping?
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.
The arrested man reportedly has bipolar disorder. Mania is a hell of a drug.
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.