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_heimdall • today at 5:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That has to carry with it the assumption that the response to similar interventions is long lasting over time. I'm shooting from the hip here, but I'd expect culture, life experiences, etc to play a role in how interventions would play out.

If my hunch were to price right, anything we'd learn there would have a short half live and may not hold out past, say, a generation or two.

I can say anecdotally that my grandparents would respond differently to many situations and interventions than I would. They grew up during the Great Depression and he flew in the war, those two events alone very much impacted how they viewed things for the rest of their life.

Looking at those only a generation behind me and even they seem to respond very differently than I'd expect those in my generation would.


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Retric • today at 7:34 PM

Repeating a successful intervention ~30 times before failure means you can dramatically boost the success to failure ratio.