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We can't have much more confidence that other humans are conscious (solipsism) than we can that dogs are conscious. We could say that other humans have (1) a similar brain to us and (2) we are conscious, then say the corollary (3) other humans are conscious, is likely true. But I could make the same argument for dogs, only premise (1) is slightly weaker.

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Panpsychists don't draw the line at a single cell and would say that a rock is conscious, to a smaller extent than a human is or an insect is. Doing this gets around the issue of consciousness suddenly arising in a discontinuous way along the spectrum of a rock to a human

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Precisely, especially when intelligence gives the user so much more leverage nowadays (through tech and capital) than it did in the past, a Pareto distribution is exactly what we expect to see in a meritocratic system

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That's exactly what we expect to see in a meritocratic system. Chess, poker and competitive gaming are almost completely meritocratic (especially poker) and we see the exact same distribution of outcomes.

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Public cost private benefit - externality, tragedy of the commons, etc

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It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)

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What do you expect from Vice nowadays

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Well said, it's not a problem unique to Facebook, Twitter is as much of a problem but they don't get dragged as much because they're more willing to take a knee to the woke religion

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That's a despicable (let alone false) thing to say and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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The daughter may be lying. We have no evidence that this was RBG's desire.

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Thank you for sharing these experiences

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It is heavily political since there's no evidence of efficacy. You can see the heterodox academy piece that summarises the available evidence. Since it is not efficacious then I'm forced to conclude that the motive is political and ideological.

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This article is literally fake news. It references SPLC which is known to be full of crap (Majid Nawaz) and they provide no evidence that the accused individual is actually a white supremacist. The fact that you and a handful of others have bought into this fake news is what's concerning here.

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This is a pedantic response. There isn't an important difference between building a physical system and building a system in code whose generating process is that which you're trying to model. And everyone knew he didn't mean every outcome literally.

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You're missing the point. Their bias doesn't come from whether they've literally worked in the White House, it comes from their political beliefs and how strongly those beliefs are held. How many in the NYT vocally support the Republican Party vs vocally support the Democratic Party?

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+1 for pragmatism and common sense, a lot of the sciences (especially social science) is useless fluff

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The visual test is the best. By far the biggest problem among data scientists is being too theoretical and relying too much on statistical tests and metrics instead of common sense and visualizations. I've worked with many quantitative researchers in the finance industry and those that are successful are always the least theoretical, do not rely on tests, and everything is visualized heavily and conclusions inferred from that. Gut feeling, intuition and visuals are the best protection against over-fitting, p-hacking and self-deception.

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Actually there is a reason to believe the replication over the original, or vice versa. There's vastly different selection effects occuring for original Vs replication which impact statistical test size

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You are massively understating the quality of the extant evidence, meaning you are either ignorant or dishonest about this situation

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Disagree. National journalism is nowadays politically charged entertainment, sensationalism and fake news. Local journalism is more likely to be real news.