RT @kevinnbass: The Cochrane Collaboration, the most respected evidence analysis organization in the world, wrote a 327-page systematic rev…
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-07 20:50:47 UTC
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You’re just unfamiliar with the terms he’s using, because he’s pulling from multiple disciplines.
Physicists aren’t trying to model the real world because the real world is discrete not continuous.. If they were they’d use a model and then explain it with mathematics. And they are almost always unaware of the limits of mathematics in description of continuous relations, when necessity demands discretness and operations. IN other words, the universe is consistent at all scalse with liquid being the only frame of refernce humans can visualize across scales. In this case the quantum background operates analogous to a liquid (‘aether’), and consists of discrete elements (fluctuations accumulating in dipoles), and those dipoles consist of discret elements (whatever phenomena produces the analogy to vibrating strings) of which we have a fairly good range of models. Within these models we can theorize constructions (operations) rather than continuities(regularities). By using math we limit the information we have to work with other than randomness -which is what we’ve seen from the physics community for fifty years.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-07 16:04:59 UTC
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Yes.
“Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition”
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-06 19:20:15 UTC
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If you study physics, economics, and neuroscience – at least at the operational rather than biochemical level, you will have a rather complete understanding of the spectrum of models that constitute our observable universe. Knowing the limits of mathematics, computation, simulation, and sets(language) doesn’t hurt either. Because at that point you know the four sciences: physical, behavioral, logical, and the logical outcome of the evolutionary: continuous recursive disambiguation at all scales by the conversion of entropy into stable relations we call persistence.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-06 00:10:53 UTC
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An assertion without evidence.
We are confident in the causes of neotenic expression and the results in domestication syndrome. We are not yet sure how this regulation of migration of stem cells from the neural tube is reduced, for the simple reason of the complexity of regulation of gene expression in real-time.
That confidence is expressed in ethnic (race) rates of gestation, maturation, impulsivity, intelligence allocation, minor variations in personality, life span, and phenotypic expression. All those traits share in common reduction in rate and depth of sexual maturation, in exchange for longer plasticity of development, greater self-regulation, and longer life spans. The question, about personality for example, where minor differences (+/- .01-.02 in populations make a large difference in social behavior). Or say, for intelligence, (deltas of 15, 15, 6) are profound, again, when in large numbers. Even the difference in impulse control is substantial at scale.
The fact that the science has to be ‘carefully’ published (see Robert Reich’s group controversy) does not diminish the fact that the leading genetic research organizations are cautiously warning us that we must accept that there are substantial and meaningful differences between the races, sexes, and classes.
The fact that you would seek to lie about it in order to preserve the pseudoscientific postwar movement to suppress sex class ethnic and race differences, is a measure of either your susceptibility, failure of due diligence, or lack of morality.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-05 16:31:38 UTC
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(It’s just the science. But like much we learn from the sciences … unpleasant.)
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-04 17:17:14 UTC
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Fascinating Paper
Released last December, and just published in Nature last week, this paper discusses the completion of the mapping of the Y Chromosome. It’s one of those papers I’ll need to study for a week. But on first read it’s fascinating. In part, because the authors, at the end of the paper, explain the condition of the existing databases of male Europeans as tainted. And in part because it provides insight into just how difficult this process has been given that the Y chromosome is one of the most difficult to sequence.
Interestingly, Europeans and the Ashkenazi are both used and show minor differences. I want to study those differences. But from what I understand, we do not know the effect many of these segments have on development.
Anyway, for fellow nerds. This one is interesting. 😉
https://t.co/DNH5oSi83W
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-03 23:13:17 UTC
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RT @curtdoolittle: @ScottAdamsSays Scott, all:
1. Very likely that string theory describes some phenomenon that is expressible as a string…
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-03 01:50:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1698151569370365974
Scott, all:
1. Very likely that string theory describes some phenomenon that is expressible as a string in mathematics, but in physical terms is referring to the equivalent of the harmonic movement of charge, force, pressure (lightning) in the positive sense on one end of the spectrum of options, or n the negative sense, of ripples or folds in whatever constitutes the quantum background. in other words, if there is anything at all to string theory – which is doubtful, the harmonics expressed are a statistical artifact that without a model of the universe at smaller scales tells us nothing of what produces the regularity described by the vibration.
2. For reasons too complex to mention here, the universe (any universe) has three plus one dimensions because thats all its possible to construct. (Really. Think: triangles are coherent no matter what you do.) When the authors speak of ten dimensions they are speaking of measurements of forces. For example, three layers of three dimensions of force, plus one for time.
3. This would suggest there are at least one if not two further reductions in organizational structure of the universe below what constitutes the quantum background. And that the original concept of the aether while flawed is more analogous and more productive for theory generation than the einstein-bohr re-platonization of mathematics. Partly because contrary to the mathematical physicists who follow in the replatonization of mathematics, the universe appears consistent at all scales.
4. In other words, string theory like much of academic physics is organized not by Hilbert et all, as enginnering but by einstein-bohr et al, as language. and that is why physics stagnated fifty years ago. And string theory isnt physics, its math. Or what we call in economics ‘mathiness’: a fictionalism not physics. Or more pointedly, physics is to mathiness as reason to sophistry. Or less delicately: pseudoscience.
5. Science evolves with gravestones. And FWIW Eric Weinstein is applying feminine/leftst critique because he was jilted by the academy. That doesnt mean he is wrong in all of his criticism. And his suggested line of inquiry in his own theory is nothing more than that: more of the same – but not necessarily friuitless as an attempt to discover some means of measuring what we cannot yet without his suggestion. But his correct criticism lies in the economic incentives in the academy as an industry, and how lost the academy is because of their accumulated malinvestments. And how powerless we have become to reform them given their failure at self policing, combined with the mysticism they’re practicing under pretense of science thats almost as bad as the nonsense in the behavioral sciences.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-03 00:27:39 UTC
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We have known this genetic bottleneck nearly brought us to extinction for a long time. But the number has been the question. We’ve held to the estimation that it was under 10,000 for as long as I can remember. And 1200 certainly seems believable. Even if terrifying.
The reason I follow this line of research is rather simple:
“Nature is a vast irradiated hostile wasteland, and the solar system, the climate, geology, flora, and fauna try to kill us with frightening regularity and near frequent success. So the need to ‘transcend’ the planet isn’t really an option, nor is returning to agrarian age ignorance that time is an endless cycle. By every statistical measure we have under 15k years of probability before another catastrophic crisis. And we lost over a thousand years, from 500ad to 1800ad to superstition of our own making already.”
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Source date (UTC): 2023-09-01 15:18:05 UTC
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