Comment author: G0W51 21 September 2015 03:54:23AM 0 points [-]

My gut says that the performance in a vehicle collision will probably bring the head to a halt...

Presumably, the impact would cause the pedestrian to fly back in roughly the same direction the car was moving during the impact, rather than come to a complete stop. That said, I don't really know enough about the tests to know if this would make a difference in efficacy. Could you link the exact data you received?

Comment author: Dorikka 21 September 2015 11:29:00AM 0 points [-]

The data is posted above, unlikely to get around to Dropboxing it so I can link (as it was from an email). I agree with you re body movement in a vehicle collision. However, at some point your body would stop. If your head hit something while your body was in motion, thr impacted object would likely have enough strength to bring the head to an abrupt halt. (Contrast with a knife being punched through paper mache - I would expect the force on the lnofe to be much lower than if hitting concrete, as it would go through the paper mache without much velocity change.)

Comment author: Clarity 03 September 2015 01:50:36PM 1 point [-]

I bought a $200 prepaid debit card to precommit to getting a beeminder account that won't fuck up my bank balance. I plan to use it to give up pornography and excessive masturbation (<or=1 a week is my goal). However, $200 doesn't have a lot of marginal value to me. I'm thinking of exploiting my irrationality and warm fuzzies by precommiting to donate it to a warm fuzzies charity, or maybe I'll put the money towards potential dates so I can get a girlfriend as substitute if I'm successful in nofapping or watching porn. Ideally there would be a system whereby I could donate to people who would be incentivised to help me stay on the yellow road, at the end of passing the Beeminder test. I hope beeminder will let me do that. Any tips or comments? I've never done beeminder before.

Comment author: Dorikka 03 September 2015 04:00:04PM 2 points [-]

I am curious about your terminal goal here.

Comment author: David_Bolin 24 August 2015 09:37:00PM 3 points [-]

The post would have to be toned down quite a bit in order to appear to be possibly sincere.

Comment author: Dorikka 25 August 2015 04:33:55AM 2 points [-]

shrug The pdf for sincerity looks bimodal to me.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 25 August 2015 12:06:14AM 5 points [-]

Not now, please.

Comment author: Dorikka 25 August 2015 04:32:07AM 3 points [-]

This is the most tantalizing thread on the page.

Comment author: Dorikka 25 August 2015 04:31:14AM 0 points [-]

What is this, and why is it here?

(Original response was remarkably vehement, rather like I found a pile of cow dung sitting on my keyboard. Interesting.)

Comment author: Lumifer 24 August 2015 04:47:52PM *  5 points [-]

It appears that the consensus is that saturated fat significantly increases blood cholesterol and arterial plaque formation

Nope -- that's a hotly debated topic. There used to be a consensus that saturated fat is bad, but AFAIK it doesn't exist any more.

In particular, the low-carb and paleo approaches to nutrition strongly assert that saturated fat is NOT bad -- that's why "Bulletproof stuff" involves a lot of it.

Comment author: Dorikka 25 August 2015 04:20:26AM 0 points [-]

Thanks. How does one go about learning more about this, preferably while encountering minimal bullshit on the way?

Comment author: Dorikka 24 August 2015 04:27:16PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for posting this. Just a quick note, many of the things listed above I would consider may be "common" terminal values, not goals. Might just be a wording thing, but I think of goals as instrumental, with values propagating to actions via the hierarchy values->strategies->campaigns->goals->actions.

Convergent instrumental goals might be an interesting collection as well.

Comment author: Dorikka 24 August 2015 04:21:25PM 1 point [-]

A few nutrition-related questions:

  • Why does Soylent 2.0 have so much fat? They appear to be going for 45% of calories from fat, whereas the typical recommendation is 10%-35%.

  • Why does the Bulletproof stuff include so much saturated fat? It appears that the consensus is that saturated fat significantly increases blood cholesterol and arterial plaque formation - curious why such a deviation here.

Comment author: Clarity 24 August 2015 11:47:38AM *  0 points [-]

Valproate is the most underated cognitive enhancer. Though it's probably bad for your sperm. It's like borrowing your future children's intelligence.

Comment author: Dorikka 24 August 2015 12:57:54PM *  1 point [-]

Personal experience that it is useful or just from the indirectly linked papers?

Also, note that it may potentiallly insta-fuck your liver.

Comment author: Dorikka 23 August 2015 03:47:14AM *  0 points [-]

A few nutrition-related questions:

  • Why does Soylent 2.0 have so much fat? They appear to be going for 45% of calories from fat, whereas they typical recommendation is 10%-35%.

  • Why does the Bulletproof stuff include so much saturated fat? It appears that the consensus is that saturated fat significantly increases blood cholesterol and arterial plaque formation - curious why such a deviation here.

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