throwaway3999

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   by throwaway3999 6y ago

   Natural selection is only a subset of all evolutionary processes, which are much broader than that.
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   by throwaway3999 6y ago

   I'm always impressed by psychologists' claim to be able to accurately define and measure intelligence, creativity, or indeed most personality traits, when researchers from other, presumably adjacent fields (AI to neuroscience to a
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   by throwaway3999 6y ago

   Taking a far-reaching and encompassing notion that's very ingrained in everyone's vocabulary, redefining it so that it's easier to measure, and reducing it to a bunch of puzzles, seems to be a favorite pastime of psychologist
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   by throwaway3999 6y ago

   Several things: -No genetic explanation at any point during the paper. It's all and well theorizing about evolution this genetics that, but if you don't have a mechanism, or even a putative explanation with actual genes involved a
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   by throwaway3999 6y ago

   There's a common theme on HN that it's all the fault of consumers for wanting free stuff. The truth is, budgets are limited, and if you start charging for stuff you will soon find out how much consumers actually value it - with re
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   by throwaway3999 6y ago

   Finding out what countries have been particularly stricken by the pandemic and have had austerity measures imposed on them recently on account of "paying one's debts", very much like Germany's situation in the 30s, is le