ciphergoth comments on Akrasia and Shangri-La - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 08:53PM

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Comment author: jonas 11 April 2009 04:37:19AM 1 point [-]

If you have diabetes mellitus you lose a lot of glucose in your urine. Certainly that simple case complicates the energy in energy out dogma.

Comment author: ciphergoth 11 April 2009 08:42:36AM 0 points [-]

"out" would have been a better word than "expended" - to cover all the ways that energy can leave your body, including glucose in the urine.