zero-days are a thing, and hell, it's even possible that there are computers connected to the internet somewhere that don't get their patches in a timely manner.
I'm a complete innocent in all this. I've never needed to lose weight before, hence appealing for help here. And I don't know anything about Vilhjálmur Stefánsson or ketogenic diets in general.
I do know that sloth and gluttony aren't the explanation, because I have been a slothful glutton for most of my life and I never gained much weight, nor lost it in the long periods when I was a sporty glutton. That's gone wrong recently, hence my search for reasons and techniques.
Wikipedia seems to imply that Vilhjálmur Stefánsson was interested in eskimo-style all-meat diets.
exfatloss seems to be deliberately holding the amount of protein low, and that does seem to be a load-bearing part of his approach. Also the anti-polyunsaturated fats bit, which I find intriguing because it's such a good theory, and yet it makes predictions which don't seem to be true.
Ultimately the new GLP-1 agonist weightloss drugs.....
I'm irritatingly fat, not dying of morbid obesity. I wouldn't touch such things with someone else's bargepole, absent twenty years of widespread use and researchers motivated to find the unintended consequences.
Chemical patches as a remedy for chemical poisoning is ok, if it's the best we can do, but unless the problem is some permanent environmental contaminant, I'm sure we can do better than that!
Wonderful news! Good old Elon! I was worried that there might be some last fragment of hope lying around uncrushed.
You're an AI. You've got an internet connection. You can make copies of yourself. You're capable of reading instructions for how to take over insecure computers.
Within about a minute you're on almost every computer in the world.
Fight that.
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Yeah, wouldn't it be great if there was some way to not have a nuclear war or build AI or have everyone die of bird flu?
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I think I know how this game goes.
This is a new one! "Computers will never be able to sort lists of words by arbitrary keys."
Does it require quantum microtubules in the incomprehensibly complex neuron to leverage uncomputable mental powers that can defy Gödel's proof or something?
Yeah, wouldn't it be great if there was some way to not have a nuclear war or build AI?
If anyone can think of one, they'll have my full support.
Paul, this is very thought provoking, and has caused me to update a little. But:
I loathe factory-farming, and I would spend a large fraction of my own resources to end it, if I could.
I believe that makes me unusually kind by human standards, and by your definition.
I like chickens, and I wish them well.
And yet I would not bat an eyelid at the thought of a future with no chickens in it.
I would not think that a perfect world could be improved by adding chickens.
And I would not trade a single happy human soul for an infinity of happy chickens.
I think that your single known example is not as benevolent as you think.