curiousepic comments on Announcing the Quantified Health Prize - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 03 January 2012 08:48:19AM 0 points [-]

Anyone else giving this a serious shot? I'm curious to trade strategies, wondering if mine is the dominant one and this is a competition of research or a competition of strategies.

My strategy: recommending basically no supplemental minerals, except where indicated by testing.

Comment author: gwern 03 January 2012 03:16:46PM 1 point [-]

I've given up on it. I'm deeply unimpressed by what mineral research I've looked at - it all seems like my original comment, that they are useful chronically during development, but not acutely after you're a grown adult (except in rare cases of major deficiency like iron deficiency for pica or anemia, which is equally useless).

Comment author: curiousepic 03 January 2012 04:04:44PM 0 points [-]

You should turn what you've done into a post at least.

Comment author: gwern 03 January 2012 05:08:29PM 0 points [-]

I didn't keep terribly good notes, so I'm not going to bother; people can just see what the contestants produce.