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Aug 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Ignorant Dawkins doesn't get it that such breeding works ONLY for a SINGLE task. Like making high volume breast-milk producing persons or 100m. swimmers. Humans have a lot of dimensions by definition AND the environment changes unpredictably!
2/My point is that it is not just immoral to breed humans; it is ineffective principally because humans are not just animals!
It is a deeper version of central planning.
Where is Hayek when you need him?
The pbm w/ babblers into "evolutionary" stuff, s.a the science writer Dawkins (+ the psycholophasters), is that they do embrace evolution as a paradigm yet believe in the effectiveness of eugenics, which implies DESIGN via a social planner.
4) Note: 1) if two traits are linear combinations of one another, then they are the exact SAME dimension. 2) If not deterministically linked or other influences, then more than one dimension.

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Why Strava is not good for training & health, since it shows your average speed (publicly) & causes the wrong type of emulation.
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Let me be blunt. Those who are afraid of AI feel deep down that they are impostors & have no edge. If you have a 1) clear mind, 2) a deep, not just cosmetic, undertanding of your specialty, 3) and/or are original enough to reinvent yourself when needed, AI will be your friend.
2) Many in the responses invoked a "threat to society" by AI. That's a separate problem; but for now do not self-servingly invoke a "threat to society" when what's under threat is your little franchise and rent seeking.
Now all these pundits who never thought of risk management before wake up & worry about AI: where were they with the Internet which installed fat-tailed disruptive overconnectivity?

We must be ALWAYS vigilant abt side effects but no need to grant CHINA a free advantage.
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Mar 24
ENTROPY DU JOUR
The ideal Mediterranean food is minimum entropy for maximal taste, that is, the smallest number of (fresh) ingredients possible, usually 3-6.
Salad bars are a modern abomination. The Poké bowl had ~20 ingredients (salad +rice "base", 4 "protein", 5 "mixed ins", 5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Artificial "meat" has about 50-100 ingredients compared to 4 -5 for hummus
CREDITS
-Giles Yeo holds that the multiplication of ingredients confuse your mechanism of satiation. "Chicken nugget" != chicken
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I am using entropy in a broader sense, focusing on ignorance.
The beauty of the term is that it encompasses both probability and disorder. Also covers (mis)information and BS busting.
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3) Also entropy based methods are vastly more informative (and rigorous) than cookbook stat methods such as correlation, etc. This is an application to population genetics. ImageImageImage
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Jan 11
MISINFORMATION
If you put money in a real bank (money market), an interest bearing account, not a "piggy bank", your earning power would have been preserved between 1960 and 2008.
Only talk about finance if you know something about finance.
Misinformation: propagandists present a partial piece of information, factually correct, as a general attribute of the system.
Here to sell cryptos to innocent youths.
This case: nobody puts more than a few $$ in piggy banks or cash accts, salaries & investment are indexed.
3(correction: purchasing power not earning power).
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