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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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I am not going to do more than quickly skim this, because Scott Alexander disgusts me, but
I really would feel better if I'm just lost and the science is good actually.
Don't know about the actual literature, but confusing heritability to mean 'concrete chance to inherit' instead of "broad measure of influence of unspecified genetic factors on a population wrt developing a condition, once environmental influences are modeled out according to our paper's methodology" is extremely common in the wild even by people who should know better.
Siskind seems ticked off because recent papers on the genetics of schizophrenia are increasingly pointing out that at current miniscule levels of prevalence, even with the commonly accepted 80% heritability, actually developing the disorder is all but impossible unless at least some of the environmental factors are also in play, which is very worrisome since it indicates that even high heritability issues might be solvable without immediately employing eugenics.
I see now that my mistake as a very Bourdieu-pilled kind of person was to assume that "heritability" meant "traits that a population statistically inherits from their parents" instead of the narrower "traits that a population statistically inherits from their parents which we should assume are genetic if we close our eyes and pretend our model is adequate at filtering out environmental factors" in effect here.
"we should assume are X if we pretend our model is adequate at filtering out interfering factors" is basically the best you can do in science.
The devil lies in the actual adequacy of the filters.