TL;DR. Exercise buys you roughly 3.5 extra years of life - probably the largest reliable gain in longevity available to you right now. But the benefits plateau: once you reach about 5 to 12 hours per week (depending on intensity), more exercise neither helps nor hurts. I built a calculator...
In the last chapters of the book Calling Bullshit, the authors Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West outline how they think bullshit and general nonsense should be refuted effectively. I found this part of the book to be quite novel and I have since been trying to implement their...
Currently, hundreds of millions of people face the choice to (1) get vaccinated against Covid-19 (maybe choosing between different vaccines) or (2) do nothing Given the fact that both the vaccines and contracting Covid-19 pose risks (in a sense that they may lead to significant reduction of quality of life),...