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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, April 27-May 4, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: NancyLebovitz 27 April 2014 08:34PM

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Comment author: brazil84 28 April 2014 04:49:45PM *  1 point [-]

Intuitively, it seems likely to me that his death is related to one or more of his self-experiments with supplements. This is based on the observation that it's pretty unusual for 60 year old men to collapse and die, particularly if they have no serious self-reported health problems. Calculating an actual probability seems like it would be pretty hard.

Edit: I suppose there is also an outside chance that this is a hoax. Has the death been reported in any newspapers?

Comment author: ChristianKl 29 April 2014 09:34:49AM 0 points [-]

Edit: I suppose there is also an outside chance that this is a hoax. Has the death been reported in any newspapers?

Yes fittingly from Ryan Holiday: http://betabeat.com/2014/04/personal-science-pioneer-seth-roberts-passes-away/

But I don't think a normal newspaper would do more fact checking then the people who read Seth's blog and comment on it.