gwern comments on Value of Information: 8 examples - Less Wrong

48 Post author: gwern 18 May 2012 11:45PM

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Comment author: gwern 05 June 2012 10:09:35PM 0 points [-]

Is this because cholesterol may not be as relevant to health as some believed? Or because the drugs (statins) just don't seem to improve total mortality much (for either the same or a different reason).

Both.

Should I just not bother trying to influence the cholesterol back towards my normal baseline?

Dunno. How seriously do you take it?

Comment author: wedrifid 06 June 2012 08:13:36AM 0 points [-]

Dunno. How seriously do you take it?

Cholesterol? Slightly less seriously now.