july

still don’t know what i think about embryo selection and optimization. randomness and variance are important for a species. 

genetics have correlates. if link between high IQ and depression is real what good is having a smart kid if he’s dead? extraversion plays more significant role in success, etc

Randomness likely has more order / intelligence than we can perceive. Ie. randomness is what we call patterns that we can't yet match

The downside of letting refinement culture or A/B testing bozos select offspring is that the more ineffable qualities of nature (like wisdom and intuition) will be ceded from the human experience

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I’ve gone more in depth with @fffflood on this but the A/B testification of everything gives you weird outcomes. Gives you travel booking experiences like booking dot com.. and I’d love for someone to tell me that that’s the pinnacle of travel booking experiences on the web

Yeah you get a composite frankenstein that's optimized at the edges for various properties but doesn't form a cohesive / beautiful whole

That's the whole problem with refinement culture

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And referencing them as A/B tests over Hypothesis tests highlights some of the problem. We’ve outsourced the thinking that went into the tests altogether. We vibe tested our way to the edges without writing commits to get us back to a place we understand

Yeah you get a composite frankenstein that's optimized at the edges for various properties but doesn't form a cohesive / beautiful whole

That's the whole problem with refinement culture

https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-culture