Concepts
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The Pareto Frontier: How good can you get?
The Pareto frontier is about tradeoffs. Systems can typically be optimized along one dimension only if there are tradeoffs along others. You can build as…
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Causation Does Not Imply Variation: Just because it’s causative doesn’t mean it’s important
As everyone knows in the abstract but sometimes forgets in the heat of the moment, correlation does not imply causation. John Cochrane reminds us that…
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Things Don’t Happen for a Reason: It’s hard to accept
We want to know why. My career is built around finding the causes for rare diseases. Human genetics, the field I trained and work in,…
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The Algernon Argument: Not just about intelligence
If there were an intervention that would result in enhanced intelligence, why have we not already evolved that way? The answer is the Algernon argument.…
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