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by 876978095789789 4y ago
Yes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602127/
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> There's hundreds of thousands of people currently having success with low carb diets There's hundreds of thousands of people currently having success with no-shellfish diets to manage their shellfish allergy; yet these people
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
The "physiological insulin resistance" meme only started because so many people going on low-carb (and especially high-fat keto) diets saw worse fasting BG and A1C numbers, which flied directly in the face of the common-sense (b
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> They both lost some weight, although the brother who was on the low-carb diet ended up virtually pre-diabetic. It's been known for decades (outside of the HN reality distortion field) that excess accumulation of intramyocellular l
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> Title should include “in healthy lean individuals” which was the study title Weightloss improves various metabolic biomarkers, including markers of insulin sensitivity, and so the fact that people who lose weight following a particular
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
The study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37006572/
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Low Carb Intake Linked to Insulin Resistance(lifespan.io)
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> I guess we'll just have to cross our fingers that Sam Altman and friends will pity us enough to give us some pocket money to survive. That's assuming the AGI created is aligned with our values. My guess is that Altman and co.
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
No, but I think the billionaires may have had a headsup concerning the models that were being built by OpenAi and others using the published research, and the capabilities and rates of progress of those models. Google supposedly sat (and is
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Midjourney is poised to cause mass unemployment of digital artists, so yeah, it's every bit as revolutionary and destabilizing as GPT.
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That was my take at the time as well, but now with tech like GPT and Midjourney, I wonder.
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There was a spate of articles in the popular press in the last few years on the subject of "billionaire preppers," most notably this one (which was discussed here): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/s
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Billionaire bunkers: How the world’s wealthiest are paying to escape (2022)(nypost.com)
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> You can become a rich person’s serf and they give you food and an allowance and a place to live This, except I'm not sure they're going to actually deliver on the food, allowance, and place to live parts.
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> 2) Let her use part (50%+) of the time saved to learn coding or whatever other skill she needs (not sure coding is it). People are still pushing this meme on HN, even after GPT-4?
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> He talked about his own fears: I want to hear Priya's opinion. Why? Either he's right about GPT or he's wrong, and if he's right (which I think he is) and she disagrees, then she's probably just in denial, lik
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> the US has invaded countries too How much lebensraum has the US tried to annex recently? Never mind that Ukraine isn't a dictatorship or state-sponsor of terrorism.
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> I think there's something to this. I added ketchup a few days into the diet because plain boiled potatoes were so unpalatable that it was difficult to otherwise eat enough, even when I should've been hungry given my starvatio
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> I think the end of the world is greatly exagarated. We actually have much bigger problems than "AI". Millions of people are going to have problems putting food on the table and providing a roof over their head, if the progres
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> Unsure what message you're implying or just sugar consumption in the US has declined more than 15% since 1999. I'm implying excess sugar consumption, including HFCS, is not the cause of the obesity epidemic. No one's te
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> Yes, but I’m cheating with my adderall prescription. I stop eating at 8PM and start at noon so I’m mostly just snacking through my eating window and when it wears off I’ll have a larger meal with a bunch of fiber so I’m not starving be
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
I posted something on those studies that probably influenced Attia's about-face, including the TRF one that Ethan Weiss, former TRF practitioner/advocate and recent Attia interviewee, co-authored, that got flagged: https:/&#
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> Sugars and <edit> complex carbohydrates </edit> that break down to derive a lot of fructose https://twitter.com/sguyenet/status/669638118400749568
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
The case for banning children from social media is stable diffusion and the prospect of perverts taking otherwise normal photos and videos that your children post of themselves (or that you post of them) and making pornography out of it. No
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
> It would help to understand why you feel that it’s immoral; my interpretation is that you are saying it gives people an advantage at a cost that you don’t want to be forced into paying yourself in order to compete. It's not just m
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
I never said people with ADHD shouldn't receive treatment; I said there are far too many people who don't have ADHD popping amphetamines to get an edge in work or academia, and I'm glad to see they're finally being cut
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
Good. I understand that this makes life harder for people with actual ADHD, but it's clear now that abuse of Adderall, Vyvance, and other amphetamines as cognitive performance enhancer is rampant, and not just in software, but in aca
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
Similar phenomenon with Russia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/13/more-than-1500... Expect housing to get even less affordable.
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
>tried to adopt it, but it was (a) undocumented with no simple examples, (b) ever-changing, and (c) required you to use the Mozilla build system, even IIRC requiring you to basically build your code as part of the browser tree (I don&#x2
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by 876978095789789 4y ago
This was basically Electron before there was Electron. It was hoped that other people would follow the Mozilla Suite's (before Firefox, Mozilla's standard distro was an application suite containing a browser, email reader, chat cl

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