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79 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 01:58AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 11 April 2011 06:03:19PM 1 point [-]

Relevant: This is a post I wrote on my personal blog. I had taken up Tim Ferriss' slow carb diet with huge success, and friends were very interested in it because it was working for me - influence of friends being the main reason most people take up anything. So I had to write a post detailing all the necessary epistemic cautions to avoid other-pessimising.