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Richard Dawkins
Personal blog · richarddawkins.com/articlessciencephilosophy
Richard Dawkins's personal blog at richarddawkins.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked only in one comment on a thread about a UK womb transplant birth. The comment discusses how accurately people judge sex from faces and other cues. It does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Richard Dawkins Official Website
What Hacker News says?
Depends why you need to know and with what level of accuracy. Just looking at their face is about 96%-98% accurate[0], and becomes even more accurate when other cues are available such as voice, gait, and build. For casual purposes, humans are incredibly good at predicting sex, without any technology or scientific understanding. One might speculate that being able to accurately find a mate is an evolutionary advanta…
Comment linking /articles/article/race-is-a-spectrum-sex-is-pretty-damn-binary
on “First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb”Submitted They Think It's Murder as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Counterfeit World hypothesis: Are our heads in the cloud? as a story · 2 points
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