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Is there a science publication that only publishes 10x results?

I'm not an academic so maybe this exists and I can't find it.

1Zac Hatfield-Dodds
What, specifically, is a '10x result'? How would the editor(s) recognise such results? I suspect that the closest thing to what you're thinking of is test of time awards.

"why should we kill them?"

This would be bad. Not endorsing death of people who don't wanna die.

There are super smart people like Peter Thiel who are into anti-aging research. Then again, Elon Musk has lots of kids and Thiel doesn't have any. Maybe their personal survival strategies are born out in their interests.

Answer by Mark Miro30

I've adopted a two-pronged approach:

  1. What did my ancestors eat?
  2. What does the science say?

The first approach involves tracing my lineage to figure out what they ate. My family is Russian and Ukrainian, so the idea is to figure out what the most traditional foods are. I assume my genetics is going to be optimized for that environment. For me this means more cabbage and more buckwheat. However, though potatoes are popular in Russian cooking, they're a modern addition.

 

The second approach is to figure out what vitamins, minerals, etc my body needs. Essenti... (read more)