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Last week I read an [article][0] critiquing Charles Murray's work, largely in response to a [podcast][1] he did with Sam Harris. One of the assertions in the article was:

> There are no “genes for” IQ in any but the very weakest sense.

I'm not super knowledgeable about this stuff. I'm not trying to kick a hornet's nest; just trying to point out how I found this news to be particularly relevant in light of what I'd been reading recently. I'd be interested in seeing the Vox article's authors would fit this news into their thesis.

[0]: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-...
[1]: https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/forbidden-knowledge
Source? Last I checked the literature identical twin studies showed a variance of as much as 20-30 points.
Their combined influence is minuscule, the researchers said ...

Keep in mind that all they were likely doing was correlating the presence of certain genes with intelligence.

They couldn't begin to start determining combinations of those genes 50.

It will certainly be the case that the combination of the genes matters. What if gene A gives you a little boost by itself and gene B gives you a little boost by itself, but genes A & B together actually lower your IQ?

With just 50 genes (assuming no mutual exclusions), you'd have 1.1258999e+15 different combinations of them.

Then as the article mentions, they think that there may be many more intelligence genes to find.
I'd go out further. 2 hours each way is nothing at the beginning and end of the day, if you are able to work the whole time. Schedule all meetings from 11-3, and you leave at 9 and be home by 5.
For every answered question, there are probably 20 unanswered ones. Almost none of my embedded programming questions got answered.

Edit: my estimate is wildly off. It's basically the opposite of what I said.
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I see your problem, you haven't properly internalized the double standard in our national discourse. Only individuals are expected to act ethically, take pride in their work, and keep their promises. Naturally, businesses and management can't be expected to have any scruples at all, and if someone is stupid enough to believe their promises it's entirely the believer's fault for being a fool. Honestly it's been this way for decades, time to get with the program!
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Way less than that. I've got a wildcard SSL cert for my domain for $60, although that was an add-on to the domain itself and hosting, purchased from the provider of the latter.
> What if gene A gives you a little boost by itself and gene B gives you a little boost by itself, but genes A & B together actually lower your IQ?

Seems like a good application for NNs?
The law is a bunch of words that can be interpreted many different ways.

The judicial branch is in charge of that interpretation. That interpretation is based on the wording of laws passed by Congress combined with the prescident set by previous judicial rulings.

The judge in Marshall, TX would find with a strong bias to the plaintiffs side[1]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/why-do-patent-trolls-g...
This was originally posted here it looks like: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5mjomm/how_some_coo...
Some data points in no particular order:

- The Secret Life of Lobsters, I highly recommend this book about lobsters, science and lobstering industry. It was a best seller so don't let the title turn you off.

- Lobsters enter the trap, eat the bait - and leave. (This is a relatively recent discovery.) Lobsterman it turns out, have been feeding the lobsters all this time. This might explain the consistently large catch.

- There were laws at one point that limited the # of days a week you could serve lobster to your hired help.
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I think that the general characteristic isn't so much the algorithmic control inherent in social networks, rather it's our approach to it - the general characteristic of a transitional object is that we don't ask of it ...

'Is this part of me, or external to me? Did I come up with this, or was it presented to me?'

As long as a user avoids or suppresses those kinds of questions then yes it's a transitional object, and whatever algorithmic control is in effect is not so important to us. To a certain extent, the algorithms, just reflect our desire for a space where there is an illusion that the outer-world accords with our inner-worlds.

Meanwhile - in terms of differentiating Facebook from the other social networks ...

Unlike Twitter (word limits, textual), and Snapchat (ephemeral, visual) Facebook is gunning for limitlessness (VR, Everything) ... in this sense, in giving its users a sense of omnipotence and omnipresence it's in a different league, one where the fundamental question of where we end and our algorithmic doppelgangers begin is elided altogether in favor of an algorithmic state ... with it's own reality, and truth.
Wasn't the same said of BSD at one time?
In my experience, lots of what you rely on in the stdlib is available in the core crate, which has no dependencies on the OS.

You aren't stuck with an entirely naked language.
This is about what you'd expect based on how behavioral geneticists are thinking these days:

"A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability."

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/096372141558043...
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There are private brokers who will facilitate trades larger than this, and I know Xapo does (did?) as well. Transferring the money back to you may be the more difficult part, depending on where you are.
The first generation iPad launched close to two years before your example in 2010 at $499.

I agree with the previous remarks - the tablet industry was pretty well established 5 years ago and hardly cutting edge tech - 10 years ago is definitely a better comparison at this point, with the crappy tablet devices Microsoft were pushing at much higher price points then.
12,095,709 questions have an answer, 7,506,004 of those have an accepted answer, and 1,813,270 aren't yet answered.

I'd say your 1:20 ratio is just a little bit off :)
> On average, it takes about a pound of herring to catch a pound of lobster.

That is very interesting and something I didn't know. I like herring more than lobster. It has greater nutritional value. It's kosher. And it is not a giant sea insect fed to prisoners. What is not to like.

I wonder whether similar actions to protect herrings are being taken as once were taken to protect lobsters.
There's reason to believe that the combined effect from all these different gene variants is approximately linear. Effects caused by multiple variants interacting are difficult for natural selection to operate on because of the way sexual reproduction works. See section 3.1 of this paper, "On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other
quantitative traits":

https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421
From what I remember of smart boards, they were pretty universally hated.
> Bounds and overflow checking, both on array accesses and on arithmetic

I like that one. Anyone know any widely adopted languages that do this?
There is still a lot individual venues can do, a big part of why EDTX became a thing is that the jury pool was so unsophisticated and would often give lots of deference to an inventors personal story over the technical details of the case. That, and judges are given wide latitude in how they run their court and those judges all adopted plaintiff friendly policies in general. There is a good reason why it became a go to destination, there is a lot to a patent trial - or any trial - beyond what 'the law' is.
Edit: and above all of that, the EDTX had developed a cottage industry of sorts to support and maintain the high level of patent litigation. Did you ever see the story of Samsung sponsoring the skating rink accross from the court house?
That's probably it, or I suspect the shape of the bottom connector to be a bit too beveled. I'll try to fit a piece of conducting metal between the two.
I'm gonna take a guess and say 5 minutes or less. I've moved much less index funds (magnitude of 10x less) and it was no problem.
Yep. It's really as simple as a progressive income and capital tax. Not only is it difficult to define the surplus gains from automation, the societal problem is not automation, but the inordinate accumulation of wealth and power.

Of course passing more progressive tax laws are impossible because you're asking the most rich and powerful to curtail their own wealth. Gate's proposal has any traction whatsoever because it won't touch old money.

Asymmetric growth between those with and without capital (automation/AI) will only worsen. Add in a few more upcoming innovations such as human genetic and cybernetic modification, and a highly segregated (if not fully biologically divergent) world society seems unavoidable. The poor will no longer be lower castes by social fiat, they will truly become physically and mentally inferior. Revolution, which was possible in a time when the oppressed had equal capabilities and access to relatively competitive weaponry, will become impossible.
They're looking through a huge number of genetic variants for genes that each have a small effect on expected intelligence scores. Two obvious problems that they run into:

1. When you test that many genetic variants, some correlations will appear purely by chance. To correct for this, they require very strong evidence for each variant that they declare significant. This means they end up having a lot of false negatives, and it's only through having an enormous sample size that they manage to get results this good.

2. There are a lot of genetic variants that they're not even looking at. (They try to pick a decent subset to measure.)

So they end up with some set of extensively-vetted genetic variants that, combined, predict a fairly small percent of variation. This is what you'd expect to see if there were a lot more that they weren't able to detect, which would be consistent with the much larger heritability numbers from things like twin studies.
Decidability. :) I'd love to see that show up in more languages. I believe it allows for better abstractions without optimization deficiencies because it's all decidable.
Ive known people who were related to certain very famous physicists and their intelligence was obviously much higher than most people. As in very conspicuous. There is no doubt thay intelligence is purely genetic. The difference between an ape, me amd my friend is genetic. Yes, environment counts but if you give everyone their own personal most ideal environment, they will all taper off at an intelligence level that is determined by their genetics. There is a popular myth that genetics arent everything when it comes to intelligence because it makes people uncomfortable. They dont want to believe that their own intelligence is deterministic. I think it has to do with the tendency of americans to never tell amyone how much money they make or anything else directly tied to their sense of self-worth. What a massive waste of time.
I agree with you. I am also an advocate for (quality) boarding-house style accommodation in cities. I disagree that affordable housing is gone in rural areas; there is nothing wrong with renting a double-wide trailer, of which there is usually a good supply.
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Neither am I. Businesses and departments therein have budgets, committees, and so on. A flatter networked corporate structure where more employees can vote on proposals may be better than pyramidal hierarchies.

Why you would assume I was talking about government is beyond me. This article is literally discussing creative ideas being shot down by committees, and committees conduct votes.
>There is no doubt thay intelligence is purely genetic.

Largely genetic, perhaps. Purely genetic, no.

Blunt force trauma can cause brain damage. Blunt force trauma is not genetic.
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The closed captions are pristine. After a short while, I forgot I was watching something not entirely in native English, to the point where I cant't now recall what was in English vs what was translated. Huge cudos to those concerned!
I think this gets at something that's been bugging me for a while: corporations used to be restricted in the amount of time that they were allowed to operate. They were of limited duration. At some point, the rules were relaxed. That gave rise to the mega-corps we have that now have no limits but what they can get away with. If we could put the genie back in the bottle we would have a much more competitive group of companies, and rent-seeking would be minimized.

Of course,the devil is in the details: no one benefiting from the status quo will go along with the scheme. And they're the ones in control (no matter who is in the White House).
Unless you could produce identical clones that only differed in terms of the relevant genes in question, and raised them in very similar environments, then neural nets will have extreme difficulty factoring out all the confounding variables. Even with large sample sets, given all rarity of the genetic combinations etc.

Given the vast complexity of all this, really the only low hanging fruit could come from determining modal genes, and eliminating all the many mutants since the overwhelming majority will be deleterious.

If you could run such a spellcheck on a person's entire genome, the results could be very impressive. Although, I admit that if done at large scales you'd essentially be creating a monoculture species. Of course, people are unlikely to all voluntarily opt for having the same genes, so under a voluntary gene therapy system this is an unlikely outcome... stratification is more likely.

http://squid314.livejournal.com/345414.html
That Vox article is profoundly dishonest. The sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted is "Virtually none of the complex human qualities that have been shown to be heritable are associated with a single determinative gene!"

That is the most ridiculous straw-man in the history of straw-men. No one thinks IQ is determined by a single gene. In reality it's probably caused by a large number of small-effect genes, leading to the characteristic "bell-curve" distribution. To oversimplify - within a population let's say there are a thousand genes or SNPs that each affect IQ by a small amount. If you have 500 "plus" (good) and 500 "minus" you end up with an IQ of 100 (average). If you have 450 "plus" and 550 "minus" you have 90 IQ. If you have 550 "plus" you end up with 110 IQ. If you have 800 you are Newton or von Neumann. The numbers are obviously simplified and made-up, but that's the general idea. Of course this is assuming the nutrition and environment to allow that IQ to develop.

Since the individual effect sizes are tiny, you need a large number of people in a study to find them. But as big data gets better, we're going to find them, and the anti-science left will have to figure out a way to deal with it.
The lack of affordable housing seems to be a feature, not a bug.
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If you want creative solutions, then pay the price which is having room to experiment and sometimes fail. If you're not willing to give people the resources they need then it's asking for all the benefit while undertaking none of he risk, a strategy that is unlikely to be successful.
This is thoroughly studied, and easily googled.

The keywords (and ultimately, links to the published studies themselves) are "easily googled".

But understanding the true import of the studies -- and in particular, the various sampling and other statistical caveats in the foreground of them -- far less so.
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Speaking as someone who had a long commuter rail trip for a period, it's still a big chunk out of your day. And, if this sort of thing really became widespread, it's a good bet that you won't be the only one doing it. So what's a one hour commute today could well turn into a two hour commute.
Are the people with higher concentrations of these genes equally distributed geographically or do they tend to be more concentrated in some areas?
Forgive me for saying so, but I don't believe that's much of a realistic plan. Which to me is no plan at all.
Haven't we really put the nature/nurture debate to rest with twin studies, separated twin studies, adoption studies, etc?

Bickering over the exact mechanism and arguing that our current ignorance of those exact mechanisms still casts doubt on the very existence of the observed differences isn't logical.

The vox article is very politically charged and admits to an unscientific politically correct approach to the whole subject. If your concerns are emotional and political, I guess it would be persuasive. If your concerns are scientific, there isn't really anything there that is an argument against anything said by Murray or Harris.
Source? I highly doubt that's true. There is a (now retired) judge whose son was a lawyer in EDTX. I'm not aware of any case where the judge refused to recuse himself from a case where his son represented one of the litigants.
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dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396055
You're not even allowed to ask that question, let alone attempt to answer it, if you want to get the funding to perform these studies.
Out of all the grey comments, this one does not deserve to be greyed out.
> I think one big piece of the puzzle is that we need to bring back genuinely affordable housing.

It's impossible to solve affordable housing by constructing more buildings and regulating prices. The only solution is to decrease demand, and large scale UBI helps do that because it frees people up to move to cheaper cities without having to worry so much about finding a job there.

There's a ton of affordable housing in the United States, the problem is the lack of jobs in those locations.
It looks like the same stuff that was presented in great detail at CCC over a year ago: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7331-the_exhaust_emissions_scand...

Does anyone know how this research differs or builds upon the previous work?
Rust has support for both of these, though the arithmetic overflows are effectively opt-in. Rust does define exactly what happens in overflow situations, and allows you to use different functions for controlling overflow options in others.
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I agree the affront to liberty and personal agency is bad.

The regulation exists because of the unacceptable collision rate that truckers were having on public roads. Citizens compel the government to act when their relatives die due to a few irresponsible truckers who fall asleep behind the wheel.

The truckers in your family are probably responsible and know their limits. Brand new truckers ---or those who don't have the leverage to push back to an employer who expects them to drive dangerously long hours--- might not be responsible.
If it's a job that doesn't actually need to be done (i.e. it's only done to keep the person willing to do it occupied), is it still a job, or is it just a hobby?

You might say it depends on whether it pays or not... but if there's a paycheck in exchange for essentially useless work, it's just welfare in disguise.
How do they control for environmental influence and correlations between environments and particular genes? Can someone elaborate on the "new statistical methods" briefly mentioned in the article.
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The idea that there are no genes for IQ is completely ludicrous. Humans are clearly smarter than every other animal; this is entirely because we have different genetics. Additionally, the only possible way humans could've become smarter than other animals is that natural selection operated over time so as to increase the frequency of human genetic variants responsible for increased intelligence. This means there must also be genetic variants within our species that affect how smart we are relative to other humans, or this could not have happened.

The fact that intelligence is highly genetic in origin is extremely obvious. But the implications this fact has on how people interact with each other are extremely disturbing.
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For the curious, this is known as a Genome-wide association study. There's been something of an explosion of these studies done, as cheap genotyping has given us datasets big enough to detect small effects. Wikipedia has an (excruciatingly technical) (edit: not really) overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study

Wikipedia has a fun list of effect sizes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_complex_trait_anal...

Unsurprisingly, height is 0.40-0.60 heritable, but did you know that "nostril area" is 0.657 heritable, while cilantro tasting is only 0.087?

The NYT article seems to imply this is the first study of its kind to be done, which is absolutely not the case. The GCTA article linked above cites 18 GWASes on general intelligence, starting in 2011. The abstract on the Nature article focuses on the 15 new SNPs found that affect intelligence, in addition to the 336 already known. It's an incremental advance, not a stunning breakthrough.

HN user gwern has covered this field extensively. Shouldn't be surprised to see him show up in this thread and gently correct some of the confused thinking in the light gray comments.
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Thanks for giving our Helm charts a try! That is actually a temporary error, because the pod is waiting on the underlying storage to provision.

If you wait a few minutes, the underlying PVC will finish provisioning and the pod will automatically retry starting. At that point it should succeed.

We will update our documentation to include this, sorry for the confusion.
Why is this a taboo topic?
I thought the Vox article explained the issues involved pretty well.

As I understand it (and I'm not that knowledgeable either), people who are more closely related (from a genetic point of view) are likely to have more similar intelligence. However, that's pretty much all you can say. How closely related you are doesn't map to anything else cleanly.

It seems like that's pretty much what you'd expect from a lot of genes that contribute a tiny effect and are nearly randomly passed on to descendants.
Thanks for the correction! I am asking pretty niche questions.