RelativeDelta

The bifurcation of response to this is telling.

Nobody has free will therefore:

-We have an obligation to be kind.

-Kindness doesn't 'work' at scale.

Please, by any means necessary, do this.

The more we learn about heritability and environment the stronger genetic determinism (at scale) gets.

If you are smart and relatively well off (as is your partner) have as many kids as you can.

The challenges we face in the coming century require as many of the best and brightest of us as possible.

GPS is a passive system. The satellites in orbit emit a constant location and identifier signal perceivable from the ground.

A GPS positioning device looks for and reads those signals and then performs a triangulation calculation.

Spoofing these signals means outputting identical but incorrect ones either from your own constellation of satellites or from ground-based arrays/emitters.

Typically military hardware expects a certain level of spoofing and has it's own built-in countermeasures/security checks so effective jamming/spoofing means successfully navigating these countermeasures either through brute force or accurate intelligence.

Sure.

There's two major baskets:

1. Paternity. Sometimes it's tragic when an otherwise good father learns he's not the father. The truth was very inconvenient to the established narrative.

2. Heritability of 'problem' genes in patients/families who request sequencing. You can't really tell a wealthy family that they're both MAOA2/4R carriers and explain what that means without ruffling a ton of feathers.

Talk to anyone working in genealogy about that exact problem and be ready for hours and hours of stories.

Great discussion. Worrying implications for western society though.

If Caplan is right, and the data says he is, the declining birth rate among the wests richest and smartest is a death knell.

Also, it would suggest we radically re-evaluate the usefulness of almost all redistribution programs. If outcomes are almost entirely genetic, we get far more efficient results by getting the rich/smart to have more kids than by trying to uplift the downtrodden.

The intent is rather irrelevant.

DNA and whole-life outcomes have been an extremely contentious conversation, but one that's worth having, and any actor with more data is going to be able to make more fruitful insights.

A person (or, let's be honest here, nation state) with a large collection of DNA sequences tied to real-life persons has two major advantages:

1. They can draw statistical correlations between what individual genes and gene clusters are associated with economic performance and which are not.

2. They can identify genetic susceptibility/vulnerability. More benignly to things like chronic addiction, gambling, alcohol, nutrient deficiency, susceptibility to environmental effects etc. In a more conspiratorial direction it can form targeting data for weaponized/tailored bioweapons once those make their way onto the public stage.

It's impossible to cure.

The 'ringing' sound people hear isn't actually a sound. It is how the brain processes signals produced by damaged Stereocilia.

If the 'ringing' is constant it means the cilia are permanently damaged. While it would, in theory, be possible to use surgery on the ear and some sort of lazer to completely remove all damaged cilia to avoid them outputting a damaged signal, this procedure would be incredibly invasive and risky. I don't believe it's ever been done and i would find it hard to believe any Otolaryngologist willing to try.

You'd have to ask the bill's authors to know for sure.

If I had to bet though it was a security thing. They want caste named explicitly because a good deal of Indian immigrants are dealing with it despite it supposedly being illegal.

Kinda feels like the author is just talking about productivity as assessed via correlation.

It's because they're only trying to prove a single thing:

At scale, perpetually buying into a stock across a period beats mass buying into a stock at any one point in a period where future results are unknown.

That's it. That's all they're proving.

Cool, but how are we going to get there?

When in doubt fall back on ol' reliable: The military industrial complex. Power is the only guarantee.

They consider caste an ethnicity.

They likely shot it down because 'caste' carries a very different meaning in American parlance. It mostly relates to wealth and they absolutely DO want to discriminate on that basis.