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Sigh, so true. Heartening that Shor has the same thoughts about the grant system that I do. I don't have quite the same critical perspective as the blogger, but I think there's a c…

I have such mixed feelings about this piece. On the one hand, I'm extremely grateful for it drawing attention to these types of problems with credit. On the other, I feel like it v…

The idea of free will sort of deriving from some properties of particles is interesting. I admit there's a lot to our understanding of things from a fundamental physical perspectiv…

Yes, it's the nocebo effect. I personally think it figures prominently in psychosomatic pathologies actually. People with [psycho]somatic symptom disorders, with medically unexplai…

The statement about falsification mechanisms is incorrect. In fact, one of the problems with the Myers-Briggs is that it is continuously brought up in these discussions, even when …

Yes, I agree that is one model, but what I wrestle with ultimately I suppose is whether indeterminism per se is what defines free will, in part or whole. If you have a prior state …

I had a similar reaction. Nondeterministic conceptions of free will similar to that of this paper are really more like an intoxicated state or something, where behavioral outcomes …

Yeah, I agree. I do research on things very closely related to voting systems, and my first thought is approval voting. It's basically rating with two options, approve and disappro…

I think all of this is generally a step in the right direction but am worried about where it is leading, for two reasons: 1. My experience with the frontiers of open access science…

... not a physicist here, but I do research on applied information theory and statistics. This grandfather's paper is sort of interesting to me because it starts to creep into some…

It's worse than that. The current system was tested on 30 people with 50% base rate of lying. Even if they bring it up to 85% accuracy with 50% base rate, by the time you are deali…

I'd second that. R and Python both have the same pre-LLVM performance issues. I don't expect either R or Python to go away either time soon, nor would I want them to, but I would l…

It sounds to me that what is being monetized is the authority of doctors. I think what you've described is really the US healthcare system as a whole. I really don't understand why…