Douglas_Knight comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2010 03:57:48PM 1 point [-]

Where do you get that I thought I was wrong about CR? I'd like to lose weight but I had been aware for a while that the state of evidence on caloric restriction doing the purported job of extending lifespan in mammals was bad.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 01 March 2010 10:04:22PM *  2 points [-]

...huh.

The last thing I remember hearing from you about it was that it looked promising, but that the cognitive side effects made it impractical, so you'd settled on just taking the risk (which would, with that set of beliefs and values, be right in some ways, and wrong in others, and more right than wrong). But, for some reason the search bar doesn't turn up any relevant conversations for "calorie restriction Eliezer" or "caloric restriction Eliezer", so I couldn't actually check my memory. Sorry about that.