paper-machine comments on Solved Problems Repository - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 27 March 2013 04:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 March 2013 07:35:25PM 3 points [-]

IME (YMMV)

That's basically the point.

The Hacker's Diet

Places way too much focus on losing weight. See parent; losing weight by losing muscle mass isn't desirable.

Second-order effects exist, but they're second-order effects.

Your claim here hinges on the presumption that CI and CO are the only first-order effects, which is almost certainly false. Age, body fat proportion, maximal oxygen uptake, etc., are plausible candidates that I've seen in mathematical weight models.

Comment author: Sarokrae 12 April 2013 11:36:18PM 1 point [-]

Age, body fat proportion, maximal oxygen uptake...

In my experience, these tend to be taken into effect when calculating the "calories out" part of the equation. By what mechanism were you thinking that these mattered, that's not "calories out"?