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At that point, a more salient question would be whether anything at all exists outside our minds.

Honestly, why bother about the wider world when this provides an excellent filter for those both principled enough to quit Twitter and competent enough to join Mastodon? Sure, you'…

I see! My intuition was that it would be hard to evaluate efficacy without RCTs - I assumed low effect sizes, which I guess is not necessarily true for many drugs. Agreed that ther…

I think all your criticisms of randomized controlled trials (apart from the ethical one) apply to your suggested approach, no? RCTs are the gold standard for demonstrating efficacy…

Not a dev, but I've often seen software that acknowledge their dependencies in About sections and on their websites. Is that particularly intrusive? Especially given that you could…

A zero, I think.

The haiku at the end is not a haiku, technically. As a non-business person, I imagine that folks would typically want some correctness guarantees, which seem near-impossible with t…

My intuition is that browser plugins based on some federated system (e.g. Mastodon, Matrix) could enable this. Why complicate browsers even more? (No expertise here, so I'm probabl…

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I'm not sure, that's not my area of expertise! I think it's pretty well-replicated that IQ is more predicted by genetics than any other factor; however, my understanding is that va…

Cultural emphasis on educational achievement and hard work, for one.