This is useful but in practice healthier foods end up resulting in satiety levels that allow folks to lose weights. You can torture yourself with low satiety foods and lose weight but it’s not practical
This is a great example of how presenting information in a really complicated way. Makes something relatively simple look really involved. This happens all the time in academic papers or design docs to pump someones cred
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This is pretty true, I see a lot of papers build up their intuition in layers, and then seemingly abstract nothing and belch out huge blocks of intractable text at the end that you basically need to already have the context for to memorize what the chunks are doing
This is something I think is super important for discourse, objections. Without an objection mechanism a lot of writing isn’t that valuable and ends up as feel good slop. Objections force writing to defend itself and fight for its position
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The purpose of a system is what it does. Therefore, if you ever see a system do bad things, you know its designers were bad people. Contrapositively, if you are a good person with good intentions, any system you design will do only good things with no unintended consequences.
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I'm not proud to say it but this line from a 60 year old detective novel made me re-think some things about friendship
This is actually a key general lesson to aggressively stop misinfo that supports your side early
This is true and one reason organizations should force their top performers to “show their work”. There are lighter weight versions of this that are far less intrusive like showing the steps they took to derive some info
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there used to be 50,000 pay toilets in cities across America until a group of college students in 1970 decided it wasn't fair to have to pay for a natural bodily function and successfully lobbied to get them banned in 12 states and now you can't find public toilets fuckin anywhere in many US cities. what a cautionary tale
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the best way to get good at something is usually to just practice actually doing the thing in question.
a lot of very capable people outsmart themselves with complex plans that involve working a lot on fake prerequisites.
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people seem to treat tele-op robots as a nothingburger (agreed obviously not as impressive as onboard control), but doesnt this signal that we probably outsource bartending to filipinos with vr headsets in the next decade?
