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gwern comments on February 2016 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 02 February 2016 01:33:05AM 9 points [-]

Everything is heritable:

Politics/religion:

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

Psychology/biology:

Technology:

Economics:

Philosophy:

Fiction:

Comment author: buybuydandavis 03 February 2016 10:49:46AM 2 points [-]

"Bayesian Belief Polarization", Jern et al 2009

I'm pretty sure that Jaynes covered this. Yep. Chapter 5. Converging and Diverging Views.

http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cc05e.pdf

Comment author: MrMind 04 February 2016 08:20:26AM 0 points [-]

And I would say did a better job at clarifying the issue.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2016 02:47:15AM *  2 points [-]

"The Star Gauge" of Su Hui

Whoa. Everything old is new again; there's nothing new under the sun -- even the garden of forking paths.

EDIT: A translation probably due to David Hilton, but the publisher locked it away behind a paywall.

Comment author: Clarity 07 February 2016 05:53:37AM 0 points [-]

Why did the author of the Be Happy post delete herLessWrong account?