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Sarah Constantin
Math/ML/data-science person now working on solving aging. Founder, LRI and Daphnia Labs. Discourse goes here.
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Sarah Constantin 8h
Replying to @reviewwales @drethelin
<pedant> Perspex is not glass! It is one of several trade names for polymethyl methacrylate, the clear plastic also known as Plexiglas and Lucite. </pedant>
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Sarah Constantin 18h
Paul Graham’s “stay upwind” is actually good advice; since you don’t know what industry you’ll actually be in, learn the hard/fundamental stuff so you’ll have more options later. Eg err on the side of more math/physics.
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Sarah Constantin 18h
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Sarah Constantin 20h
Replying to @HiFromMichaelV
Actually, while I don’t see many viable paths towards non-planned economies, decentralized technologies for trade & governance seem like some of the best available practical options.
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Sarah Constantin 21h
No that’s literally what I’m citing, though iirc the same authors did some more “realistic” tests as well (open ended questions requiring research, not just word problems)
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Sarah Constantin 21h
in probability and finance. However there are cognitive biases that are more “dispositional” and hard to remove with training, and these don’t correlate with IQ either. I’d expect these to be connected to “emotional health” — being less needy, defensive, panicky, etc.
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Sarah Constantin 22h
Mostly the conclusions I drew from Tetlock & Stanovich are that empirical prediction skill & CRT score is pretty related to STEM education (up to a point: MIT undergrads do better than gen pop but professors don’t do better than undergrads) & improves with training ...
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Sarah Constantin 22h
Yep, sounds right.
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Sarah Constantin 22h
Replying to @vgr
I’d assume you’re talking about people giving each other the benefit of the doubt to a certain degree; a little breathing space where different perspectives don’t quite collide but “cut each other slack.”
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Sarah Constantin Feb 1
Replying to @jasoncrawford
Thanks!
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Sarah Constantin Feb 1
Replying to @ArtirKel
Woot! So glad more people are appreciating how great that textbook is!
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Sarah Constantin Feb 1
Replying to @MorlockP
I don’t think heavy-duty self loathing is the only or the optimal way to achieve great things, but also, *that’s not the point*. It’s your brain, it’s your life, if you’re meeting your baseline commitments to those around you, fuck it, you’re entitled to be as happy as you can.
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Sarah Constantin Feb 1
Replying to @MorlockP
It *fucking hurts*. If I am tired of *fucking hurting* I’m entitled to try to learn to stop. I know self-ownership is a fringe position these days, but I don’t believe you have to be miserable because someone else says “but you do so much more work for me that way!”
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Sarah Constantin Feb 1
Replying to @nico1e_snow
Yes, I bet it would!
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Tony Breu Jan 31
1/14 Why does E. coli clear from the blood faster than S. aureus? I've heard this repeatedly but never fully understood the difference. One answer helps explain why cirrhosis is a risk factor for infection and introduced me to a Trojan horse of the immune system. Read on!
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Sarah Constantin Jan 31
Replying to @jasoncrawford
Corollary: the thing that went unprecedentedly well for humanity starting in the 1700's (as seen in eg human population growth) was *not* the invention of financial markets.
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Sarah Constantin Jan 31
some people who start out pretty rational but observably get worse after traumatic events, some people who get traumatized early and stay that way, and a handful who get traumatized and with effort overcome it.
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Sarah Constantin Jan 31
If the "baseline state" is more rational than the "traumatized state", and everybody is born at baseline but many are traumatized, especially in childhood but sometimes later, then you'd see some never-traumatized people who are pretty rational without any training,
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Sarah Constantin Jan 31
If the baseline, untrained, uneducated person is *about as irrational as it gets*, and most people are at "baseline", then you'd see a few people overcoming this baseline state, and most people staying there.
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Sarah Constantin Jan 31
You're saying that "rationality" already adequately incorporates the idea that people become biased because they're in emotional pain?
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