jimrandomh comments on If reductionism is the hammer, what nails are out there? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 11 December 2010 01:53:43PM 5 points [-]

Hunger. People go on diets, notice that the diets leave them hungry, and fail to take the next step and determine which of the body's half-dozen hunger mechanisms is being triggered first.

Comment author: jsalvatier 11 December 2010 10:40:05PM 0 points [-]

Karl Smith of the blog Modeled Behavior frequently talks about body weight in a reductionist way (examples 1, 2, 3), without claiming to know how to fix obesity problems.