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Correct. I was asking what the basis is for your confidence that it positively isn't substantially genetic. We know that intelligence is highly heritable, which leaves a few possib…

You strongly believe this based on what? Being "99.9 percent identical" doesn't necessarily preclude substantial genetic variation in intelligence just like it doesn't preclude suc…

"These standardized tests don’t add much." Do you have any evidence for this aside from your immediate experience?

But that's marked to market value. The shareholder still has to receive a dividend or sell that higher priced stock, which are both taxable events. So I still don't get it.

I don't understand this. If I'm a greedy shareholder, then I want dividends and cap gains, which are both taxable outside of company tax. How does hoarding cash inside a company, w…

He worked as a research assistant for a professor for three years and is now engaged in amateur research which he shares on his blog, some of which has received positive feedback f…

What about this? "we want to emphasize is that those estimates of poverty do take into account non-market transactions such as subsistence farming." https://ourworldindata.org/pove…

Respectfully, I think this misses the point a bit. Roser himself says that there could very well be valid criticisms that Hickel is correct on and he is incorrect on. The criticism…

On the other hand, corporate taxes advantage large multi-national corporations over smaller companies because they have the resources and capability to manoeuvre around the rules a…

What would be the incentive for this? The whole point is for stakeholders to eventually get paid in a taxable event; either shareholders through a capital gains taxable event or em…

The tone of these particular tweets should be parsed in context. If you think that someone has been operating in bad faith towards you for years, eventually you lose interest in en…

Hickel did a similar thing to Steven Pinker. He wrote a scathing article falsely claiming that the poverty rate was increasing (contra to Pinker's claim), when according to his own…

It ideally should've been made clear that the veracity is unconfirmed, but aren't there more charitable interpretations for why it wasn't?

The contradiction pointed out in the article (section 2) doesn't require domain expertise to understand. Basic comprehension will suffice for that. The misquoting of sources doesn'…

"suggest an effort to misrepresent at the very least UC Berkeley's position." This is a non-sequitur. The decision to keep the identity of the contact anonymous and the presence of…

He still seems to be twisting and misrepresenting the NSF guidelines of 7-9 hours to mean the point value of 8 hours. No, Walker, 63 percent of people don't have unmet sleep needs,…

But you do have the knowledge to verify some of the accusations, because much of them don't require any knowledge to verify. He's often just pointing out logical internal contradic…

Looks like they used a variational encoder-decoder net to reduce the dimensionality of the action space. Not manual and it sounds like a good idea.

Delusional - absolutely. Such a large proportion fall into the trap of iteratively overfitting to the test set without much of a care for the basics such as data quality, what ques…