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Alicorn comments on Life Extension through Diet Modification - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Caerbannog 16 May 2011 06:36PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 16 May 2011 07:39:37PM 8 points [-]

...improve the quality of life.

...found it somewhat tolerable.

Maybe you meant something like "improve physical health and functioning".

Which isn't the same thing as quality of life.

Comment author: Benquo 16 May 2011 08:03:14PM 8 points [-]

When you're old it's a big component of your quality of life. I think this is a classic pain now vs. pain later tradeoff.

Comment author: Caerbannog 16 May 2011 09:46:03PM 5 points [-]

Maybe I didn't use the best choice of words. Food did taste pretty amazing on the feast days, though.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 May 2011 08:14:58PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted! IF makes food taste better.