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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 November 2015 09:30:41PM 1 point [-]

Short Online Texts Thread

Comment author: gwern 01 November 2015 10:20:41PM 8 points [-]

Everything is heritable:

Politics/religion:

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

Psychology/biology:

Technology:

Economics:

Philosophy:

Fiction:

Comment author: g_pepper 18 November 2015 02:56:25AM *  1 point [-]

Good article for a general audience on Nick Bostrom and Superintelligence in the latest New Yorker:

The Doomsday Invention

Comment author: Clarity 05 November 2015 11:20:20AM *  0 points [-]

Statistics

Refugee health

Psychiatry

Evidence-based Health policy

http://policymakers.evidencemap.org/#/category/36

Psychotherapy

http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/A-Systematic-Review-of-Potential-Mechanisms-of-Change-in-Psychotherapeutic-Interventions-for-Personality-Disorder-2161-0487.1000133.pdf http://www.cochrane.org/CD003388/DEPRESSN_psychological-therapies-chronic-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-adults

Psychometrics

Item design:

Survey design:

Misc

Comment author: gwern 05 November 2015 08:10:58PM 1 point [-]

How does that post show 'Zero knowledge proofs are probably impossible'?

Comment author: Clarity 05 November 2015 11:38:05PM 0 points [-]

I don't know. I'm taking that argument from authority and posting it, in part, to remind myself to reprocess the ideas when I'm better prepared to receive them.

The following link trail conditioned my interpretation:

Zero-Knowledge Proof is a very new, very speculative field with few if any academic research - plus, it is currently plagued with the trusted accumulator issue (you have to trust the very first "user"), scalability issue and, more intrinsic to the procedure, issues with wholly obscured economy, which prevents detecting a bug/exploit until it is much too late. Also, ZKP is considered doubtful.

Where the author here hyperlinks to the above article with 'doubtful'

Comment author: Khoth 07 November 2015 05:37:56PM 0 points [-]

The blogpost you linked to is explaining, in detail, with a worked example, that zero-knowledge proofs are possible. The only thing in it that even slightly matches the reddit guy's view is the sidenote near the beginning pointing out that just because someone claims a cryptosystem is zero-knowledge, doesn't mean they're actually right, or that the cryptosystem is secure.

Comment author: Clarity 08 November 2015 02:58:54AM 0 points [-]

Thank you for your assessment! Glad I posted that.