hyporational comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 2: Atkins Redux - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 29 December 2013 06:06:00AM 1 point [-]

That's true especially in the beginning, but people become incredibly good at predicting how their needs vary through experience. Getting sick is an important exception, that's when things go wacky.

Do you think whether we use the word "just" or "roughly" was important to my main point?