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Re:Adopting beliefs can be a strategy to signal commitment t... by mandmandam on Saturday November 25, 2023 @08:39AM (#38413421)
I was enjoying the article until decolonization was presented as an example of an absurd statement.

Yes, ecocide and trauma cause inflammation. That's not absurd at all. Stress causes inflammation; that's simply the general consensus.

What's absurd is jumping to the conclusion that they are the sole cause of inflammation. It's not the Doctor's fault that some people, apparently including this writer, can't read a DAG.

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Re:Adopting beliefs can be a strategy to signal commitment t... by hn_rationality on Sunday November 26, 2023 @01:09AM (#38419559)
The absurd statement is not decolonization but the implied causal graph, which is not a DAG, incidentally, as it is cyclical.
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Re:Adopting beliefs can be a strategy to signal commitment t... by mandmandam on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:52AM (#38420687)
It's explicitly a DAG [0]. And, there's nothing absurd in the graph that I can see.

Curious, what makes you think it's cyclical? As far I understand, it's only a cyclical graph if the loops are closed, which they are very clearly not here.

0 - https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya/status/1726101733997441132

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