I’m convinced by the mainstream view on COVID origins and medicine.
I’m ambivalent on education—I guess if done well, it’d consistently have good effects, and that currently, it on average has good effects, but also the effect varies a lot from person to person, so simplistic quantitative reviews don’t tell you much. When I did an epistemic spot check on Caplan’s book, it failed terribly (it cited a supposedly-ingenious experiment that university didn’t improve critical thinking, but IMO the experiment had terrible psychometrics).
I don’t know enough about sleep research to disagree with Guzey on the basis of anything but priors. In general, I wouldn’t update much on someone writing a big review, because often reviews include a lot of crap information.
I might have to read Jayman’s rebuttal of B-W genetic IQ differences in more detail, but at first glance I’m not really convinced by it because it seems to focus on small sample sizes in unusual groups, so it’s unclear how much study noise, publication bias and and sampling bias effects things. At this point I think indirect studies are getting obsolete and it’s becoming more and more feasible to just directly measure the racial genetic differences in IQ.
I couldn’t swallow Eliezer’s argument, I tried to read Guzey but couldn’t stay awake, Hanson’s argument made me feel ill, and I’m not qualified to judge Caplan.
I’m convinced by the mainstream view on COVID origins and medicine.
I’m ambivalent on education—I guess if done well, it’d consistently have good effects, and that currently, it on average has good effects, but also the effect varies a lot from person to person, so simplistic quantitative reviews don’t tell you much. When I did an epistemic spot check on Caplan’s book, it failed terribly (it cited a supposedly-ingenious experiment that university didn’t improve critical thinking, but IMO the experiment had terrible psychometrics).
I don’t know enough about sleep research to disagree with Guzey on the basis of anything but priors. In general, I wouldn’t update much on someone writing a big review, because often reviews include a lot of crap information.
I might have to read Jayman’s rebuttal of B-W genetic IQ differences in more detail, but at first glance I’m not really convinced by it because it seems to focus on small sample sizes in unusual groups, so it’s unclear how much study noise, publication bias and and sampling bias effects things. At this point I think indirect studies are getting obsolete and it’s becoming more and more feasible to just directly measure the racial genetic differences in IQ.
However I also think HBDers have a fractal of bad takes surrounding this, because they deny the phenotypic null hypothesis and center non-existent abstract personality traits like “impulsivity” or “conformity” in their models.
I couldn’t swallow Eliezer’s argument, I tried to read Guzey but couldn’t stay awake, Hanson’s argument made me feel ill, and I’m not qualified to judge Caplan.