If we're going to be talking about the obesity epidemic, it might be useful to actually look at some numbers to see how much change it takes to explain the increase in average weight. Given people keep talking about the 1980 inflection point I'm going to use a typical person...
References: Slack: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/ TL;DR Having a 20% buffer in your schedule to rest and handle anything urgent that pops up is the difference between a good life with time to experiment and being in a situation where one emergency breaks you and everything is on fire all the time. Rule...
>Furthermore, the curves that you present are way too steep. The average American puts on about 1 pound/year,
Because they're already in their higher weight state. The graph was a hypothetical 1980 person being moved to 2010 and upping their intake. When we see studies putting people in metabolic wards we find that a 500 calorie a day surplus corresponds to a 1 lb a week weight gain, which is consistent with my curves
>There's pretty strong evidence that the rise in obesity is not primarily behavioral
How are you defining behavioral? The body is pretty efficient at turning extra calories into weight, a disease can't make you gain 20lbs by processing the food more. It can make you lose weight by processing the food less. The only mechanism a contaminant would have to raise your weight is by influencing your behavior so you spend less calories or intake more. There is no other mechanism by which a contaminant would work. It /must/ include an intermediate behavioral step
Fair point that I didn't include as much detail as I could.
My belief is that most people react to "the average weight went up over 20lbs between 1980 and 2010" with "wow that's a lot, there must be something really weird going on we need a complex thesis with a scary name" but react to "the average calorie budget per day went up 200 calories" with "wow that's it? I'd expect it to be more given, ya know, everything".
My post was mostly just meant to put the magnitude of the change in perspective for them.
It would have taken me a lot longer than the 20 minutes I spent on the post if I wanted to find sources on the prevalence of low-satiety foods sedentary entertainment to talk about how they're more common. I was trying to nail an effort:usefulness sweet spot
If we're going to be talking about the obesity epidemic, it might be useful to actually look at some numbers to see how much change it takes to explain the increase in average weight. Given people keep talking about the 1980 inflection point I'm going to use a typical person from that time period as my starting point and track him for five years with minor behavioral changes.
As you can see, it doesn't take much behavioral change to account for the change in average weight we've seen over the last 40 years. A little more sedentary... (read 224 more words →)
Aren't those types of ads usually pay per click? I've never purposefully clicked an ad* on a site so it's really no different to them if I use an ad blocker
*Not counting things like the front page of steam where I'm coming for the ads specifically
I've always felt weird about my contribution to ads. Half the projects I've worked on at Microsoft were ads and I'm currently waiting to hear back from hiring committee at Google about working on some different ads for them instead.
I guess the part I'm not sure about is, are the people who purchase something in response to an ad better off? The only purchase that stemmed from an unsolicited ad I saw was bugging my mom for some Heelys as a kid; but every time I've let an "almost ad" like a friend talking about something convince me to buy something it has always felt like it made my life 0% better... (read more)
For me, five hours laying in bed and three hours of sleep is much closer to eight hours sleep than it is three hours. There have been some studies on how much sleep you can replace with meditation and I don't remember the exact conversation rate, but you did say low barrier to entry on comments. When I'm stressing at being unable to sleep, as long as I relax everything and meditate I wake up feeling as good as if I didn't have insomnia issues. Note that it took me a lot of practice to be able to relax everything, you often don't notice some of your muscle tension. It's also an interesting thing to note that I sometimes have rapid involuntary eye movements while doing things which makes me think something sleep like is happening.
I'm finding myself wishing for more resources on picking where to live. I'm in an uncommon situation: Single. Enough money to not need to work anymore unless I'm in a high cost of living place so I want to take a few years off. The only area that I have lots of friends in I already know isn't right for me due to seasonal depression. Finding the right place to live through my own research will be long having to visit places for long enough to see what they're like but there just doesn't exist super great resources for researching things ahead of time unless I'm missing something.
In related news: I hear Atlanta has a decent dance scene. Anyone live in the Atlanta area have comments?
I actually think the fun part explains it even more. I have a buddy I game with all the time. I always end up better then them. They ask for help. I point out something I've identified as a fundamental in the game (the equivalent of aiming/positioning in FPS games, or building workers in RTS games) and some little practice method that I went away and did for 2 or 3 hours one day to get better at that fundamental. Then, every time, they say "that would make it not fun" and just spam some games. Because there's a fun inefficient way to practice they just do that instead of the less... (read more)
Some general thoughts from a former masters SC2 player, who has also been decently highly ranked at many other games
There was a famous starcraft caster who was constantly being asked how to become a starcraft caster by people who said it was their dream. He told them all "Go record yourself trying to cast 100 games then send me a message". Literally only one person took him up on that, and now they're a famous starcraft caster.
My prediction is that people willing to do the work can get good insanely quickly and people who aren't won't. I think "most people say they are willing to do the work but aren't" explains the... (read more)
I do have limits to how far I'd go. The impression I have in my head is that the two ways to jump in line are 1) malfunctions where they have to give them away or throw them away 2) areas where the demand is so low that they're having to choose fairly lax rules or throw them away. My hope is that there's a way to get a vaccine that wouldn't have gone to anyone truly in need without having to do anything particularly illegal
Slack: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/
TL;DR Having a 20% buffer in your schedule to rest and handle anything urgent that pops up is the difference between a good life with time to experiment and being in a situation where one emergency breaks you and everything is on fire all the time.
Rule of Equal and Opposite Advice: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/should-you-reverse-any-advice-you-hear/
TL;DR The person who needs the advice to love their body is probably the person to end up on diet forums. The person who needs the advice to care about their health is probably going to end up on HAES forums. Each person needs to reverse the advice they naturally seek to get the advice that brings them to the... (read 293 more words →)
I agree getting told to eat less is not helpful advice. Here is the Facebook post, which I don't think your steelman applies to.