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Linear Diffusion of Sparse Lognormals: Causal Inference Against Scientism

Aug 07, 2024 by tailcalled

What is wrong with scientism, reductionism, academia, and much of society? Everyone probably has their own theory, but my theory is that they fail to take linear diffusion of sparse lognormals into account.

 

The sequence is temporarily on halt because I ran out of backlog for it, but there will be more later. In the meantime, you can read the following posts:

  • Rationalists are missing a core piece of agent-like structure (energy vs information-overload)
  • The causal backbone conjecture
54[LDSL#0] Some epistemological conundrums
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31[LDSL#1] Performance optimization as a metaphor for life
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25[LDSL#2] Latent variable models, network models, and linear diffusion of sparse lognormals
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33[LDSL#3] Information-orientation is in tension with magnitude-orientation
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29[LDSL#4] Root cause analysis versus effect size estimation
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24[LDSL#5] Comparison and magnitude/diminishment
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32[LDSL#6] When is quantification needed, and when is it hard?
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