army1987 comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: ciphergoth 17 December 2013 08:45PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (301)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 December 2013 08:40:31PM *  4 points [-]

Well, my estimates for long-term consequences would probably be:

Soylent is fine to consume occasionally -- 98%
Soylent is fine to be a major (but not sole) part of your diet -- 90%
Soylent is fine to be the sole food you consume -- 10%

Comment author: [deleted] 19 December 2013 07:32:41AM *  1 point [-]

The first one sounds underconfident (at least if you don't count people allergic or intolerant to one of the ingredients, nor set a very high bar for what to call “fine”).

Comment author: Lumifer 19 December 2013 04:14:33PM 2 points [-]

The first one can be read as saying that 2% of people occasionally drinking Soylent will have problems because of that. That doesn't sound outlandish to me.