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7 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 21 May 2013 07:09PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 21 May 2013 08:44:36PM 3 points [-]

Randomizing weeks on and off might not have captured the full effects of prolonged Soylent use (e.g. side-effects involving gut bacteria).

Comment author: gwern 21 May 2013 09:08:10PM *  18 points [-]

Of course blocking on weeks wouldn't rule out long-term side-effects. (Nothing would, short of a multi-decade RCT to investigate all-cause mortality.)

My point was that he hasn't even done that much. Yet, he is happy to blog about the 1 week he took off Soylent to fly to LA and how crappy he felt wandering around a strange city and how this proves normal food sucks...