Lumifer comments on Recent updates to gwern.net (2013-2014) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 September 2014 04:30:53PM *  2 points [-]

doesn't show any big decreases in longevity as one would expect if doping were really that bad.

"Doping" is a very wide category -- ranging from pretty harmless diuretics to force-feeding kids hormones (East Germany). I don't think one can speak about health effects of "doping" in general. Is typical use of anabolic steroids bad for longevity? Schwarzenegger looks pretty healthy :-/