timtyler comments on Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 06:52PM

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Comment author: prase 27 April 2009 08:47:58AM 0 points [-]

Why evo-psych? Psychology has nothing to do with that.

Diets are, of course, evaluated by testing, but Roberts goes further and makes an explanation of his diet, and whether this explanation is consistent from evolutionary perspective is a relevant question.

Comment author: timtyler 27 April 2009 06:38:17PM 1 point [-]

Or, in my view, not as far, by promoting an almost totally-untested diet.