@TheZvi@robertwiblin Incentive = reward gradient? So incentive gradient is 2nd derivative of reward? Useful for evaluating how treacherously steep is the way out of your local maximum.
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@spiantado@timothycbates@samuelmehr @GRich_Cinci @AndrewRAConway @CantlonLab Would the following be a fair summary: National heritability studies find that environment explains a low % of variance. In international comparisons there is a lot more variability in the environment, so the % attributable to the environment internationally is much higher?
@spiantado@timothycbates@samuelmehr @GRich_Cinci @AndrewRAConway @CantlonLab I'm confused. There is some "general performance factor" that is quite heritable, stable over the lifetime, and predictive of life outcomes. Is the question here what to call it? Or the extent to which it is influenced by environmental factors?
@NAChristakis@Yale@nytopinion@DrDavidKatz Is there room for a more sustainable policy of very stringent isolation for those at high risk, while letting the young provide essential goods and services?
@JeffRouder @JuliaHaaf Maybe a strategy for a proof. Consider the rank order permutations: yyxx, yxyx, xyyx, xyxy, yxxy, xxyy. Each equally likely, and each sum(x>y) {2, 1, 0} is represented equally frequently in the permutations. yielding a uniform distribution.
@mcxfrank Yes, that sounds exactly right. Although put this way, it sounds like I have to reconcile my instinct here with my aversion to other invocations of Knightian uncertainty.
@mcxfrank I think it's the same situation regardless of how many levels. You are still specifying *some* hypothesis space, and your estimates are restricted to that hypothesis space. That hypothesis space may be wrong.