Was thinking about brains last night Absolutely wild that just looking at something can generate a permanent biological change that stays with a person for the rest of their life Im fucking up your wetworks just by poasting this tweet
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things that would be fun to see: 1. education studies that are worth anything, most of us are pretty good at learning but as a practitioner it's just hacking around with a black box education outside of structured programs especially interesting maybe most learning is nonformal
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2. Stopping this random social change shit We cant learn anything this way Every social movement needs to be pre-registered with clear success criteria and guardrail metrics and launched with a backtest
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I dunno I spend a lot of time running experiments on a (comparatively) simple system with social and economic components A LOT of experiments, with fantastically thorough and clean datasets and incredible compute resources at my disposal And still my understanding is p thin
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What I'm trying to say is that strong empirical beliefs past chemistry are maybe a mistake There seem to be some cases where they work I guess Auction theory anyone Ok having gotten up early I should actually work now but one last thing have you every thought about writi
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is there anything funnier than the stereotypical (and therefore mostly accurate) STEM response being that there's nothing there to understand?
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All kludges! Although testing in an evolutionary setting helps for sure
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The physical and chemical universe does not give a shit about personal and social reality.
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