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Presented at BAH Fest in front of more than 1,000 people at MIT, poked fun at Max Tegmark on stage (for which he gave me his signed book), went drinking with Zach Weinersmith and the other awesome contestants, drank enough beer to numb the pain of actually coming in 2nd.
I don't get what this is about from the website - and I don't watch Youtube. Can anybody explain/link?
It started with this comic and proceeded to happen exactly as it does in the comic.
In detail: people come up with evolutionary theories to explain human or animal characteristics. The theories have to be well supported and also 100% wrong (but mostly they have to be funny). My theory was that sleepwalking is an adaptation to get you in good shape, and it started off with Homo Erectus jogging after antelopes for days in persistence hunting. Like most modern jobs, persistence hunting doesn't require you to be actually awake.
From an LWian point of view, it's a master class on confirmation bias - it's frighteningly easy to find supportive evidence for the dumbest hypotheses in every chart or citation. For example, sleepwalking is comorbid with depression and sleep apnea, both of which can be alleviated by regular exercise. QED. Also, Google NGram prevalences of "sleepwalking" and "overweight" have 0.97 correlation. Coincidence? I think not!