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43 Post author: gwern 09 February 2016 09:02PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 February 2016 10:16:26PM 2 points [-]

For the purposes of this argument, it's sufficient that merely some fraction of people can indeed choose to stop becoming obese, which does indeed appear to be the case.