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We don't know it all but CICO is most definitely not bullshit.
by mozman 3y ago
We don't know it all but CICO is most definitely not bullshit.
- scrollaway 3y agoJust because it’s technically correct doesn’t make it useful or helpful. It’s technically correct that computer instructions are all in binary. Yet learning binary is not useful to people trying to code in Python. If the python community started to tell learners “it’s all binary in the end”, it being true wouldn’t make it any less of an unhelpful reductive bullshit claim.
- tsimionescu 3y agoThere are two things people understand by CICO: 1. The broad idea that your weight loss/gain is affected by the caloric content of the food you eat and the amount of excercise you get. This is almost trivially true from simple thermodynamic arguments, and no one contradicts it. 2. The specific belief that weight loss is completely reducible to using your free will to eat less calories and do more sports, and that there is no further discussion to be made on how to help someone lose weight (e.g. no medical checkups for hormone issues, no therapy for mental health, no look at the fattening effects of medication or pollutants, no caring about microbiomes, etc.). This part is what is harmful bullshit, since it posits that human beings of strong moral character should not let their basic biology affect their behavior.