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Comment · 2 years ago
Urbit
Comment · 2 years ago
How significant is the difference in Elo scores for the end user? Should I use Claude Opus if I already have GPT4, despite its similar score?
Additionally, how much better is Claude for coding?
Comment · 5 years ago
In my opinion science should be about Truth, the rest should be left to people and their leaders. Truth being central to the process of science is what makes science unique and allows for societies to accumulate knowledge.
Comment · 5 years ago
No, I don't think this hypothesises agrees with observable evidence https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Comment · 5 years ago
But there is plenty of oil in Russia! Why invade?
Comment · 5 years ago
I think currently is all of them, until we figure it all out. The costs of obesity overweight benefits of convenience of above mentioned things. (You can argue about adenoviruses -- I've got two shots of the adenovirus based vaccine).
Comment · 5 years ago
>This is a very strong claim that is lacking a source
They are citing overfeeding experiments.
Comment · 5 years ago
>>Simple logic would suggest that our food is the main culprit.
Then, why does it happen in wild animals? They are not eating processed foods.
Even if the food is main culprit, it leads to the question of what is exactly wrong with the food?
p.s. we have enough data to understand overall historical trends and authors cite it:
Comment · 5 years ago
>>I'm usually all about investigations like this but the repeated claims that obesity is, for sure, not caused by diet is a leap.
I think authors list convincing arguments:
1) the diets on average not working for weight loss
2) experiments with overfeeding causing a little of easily revertible weight gain
3) lipostate theory with understood possible pathways