Nassim Taleb: "...the reliance on 1-sided accounts...which can be controlled by the mandarins, lasted from the mid 20th century until the US elections of 2016...social networks, allowing a 2-way flow of info, put back the mechanism of tidings in its natural format...journos worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than that of the general public. Compare to a healthy system, say that of restaurants...owners worry about the opinion of their customers, not those of other restaurant owners..." http://bit.ly/2W15vAG
or you can assume that our body evolved mechanism to deal with the recurring lack of food and periods of fast might be where you are the sharpest. This would definitively be required to be able to find food. To the opposite, the constant influx of food is not "natural" to the body.
George Cahill wrote a paper called Fuel Metabolism in Starvation that describes a lot of that. Our liver converts fatty acids to ketone bodies. One of the papers he references: BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE: THE MOST EFFICIENT FUEL Veech and colleagues discovered that administering -hydroxybutyrate to the perfused rat heart in place of glucose increased work output but decreased oxygen consumption (35). http://bit.ly/2AI7LUt
Great, if you had a handy decoder ring to help separate the few things they got right from all the other batshit they didn't.
Sounds like you're committing base rate fallacy. For most people, you have to also consider what did religion got right. Scientism has its own decoder rings...
"the absence of religion... replaced by all kinds of crazy beliefs... you realize there's no religious fundamentalism that's more irrational than an atheists' primitive use of probability" http://bit.ly/2Hi4pNK
Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later... In other words, you do not need science to survive (we’ve done it for several hundred million years) , but you need to survive to do science. https://medium.com/incerto/how...
"Scaling... not incompatible to be libertarian at the state level, communist at the commune level... Singapore vs China... Norway (size of NYC borough) vs Canada vs USA" --Nassim Taleb http://youtu.bet3m8s/
"Scaling... not incompatible to be libertarian at the state level, communist at the commune level... Singapore vs China... Norway (size of NYC borough) vs Canada vs USA" --Nassim Taleb http://youtu.bet3m8s/
"Every culture that has depended on annual plants for their staple food crops has collapsed." @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1ck0tnM
Clash of cultures HG vs agriculture "Sitting Bull and his people had no use for these laws... There was nothing the US govt or agriculture could offer them. They were really the freest people in the world... so [US govt] exterminated them." http://bit.ly/1pAIwrD
home to the tallest trees... Kaure, Alerce, Sequoia/Redwood, Cedars of Lebanon... all chopped down by agriculturalists https://youtu.be/kb_t-sVVzF0?t...
The old adage "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" applies here. Media is more entertainment than news and info. Bad reporting... fake news... all part of the entertainment.
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Nassim Taleb: "...the reliance on 1-sided accounts...which can be controlled by the mandarins, lasted from the mid 20th century until the US elections of 2016...social networks, allowing a 2-way flow of info, put back the mechanism of tidings in its natural format...journos worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than that of the general public. Compare to a healthy system, say that of restaurants...owners worry about the opinion of their customers, not those of other restaurant owners..." http://bit.ly/2W15vAG
Hmm... Sumerian cylinder seals vs Hubbard's Dianetics
Ancient Sumerians believed their gods were aliens. https://youtu.be/L3ogy-pqvKQ
or you can assume that our body evolved mechanism to deal with the recurring lack of food and periods of fast might be where you are the sharpest. This would definitively be required to be able to find food. To the opposite, the constant influx of food is not "natural" to the body.
George Cahill wrote a paper called Fuel Metabolism in Starvation that describes a lot of that. Our liver converts fatty acids to ketone bodies. One of the papers he references: BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE: THE MOST EFFICIENT FUEL Veech and colleagues discovered that administering -hydroxybutyrate to the perfused rat heart in place of glucose increased work output but decreased oxygen consumption (35). http://bit.ly/2AI7LUt
Nassim Taleb's probabilistic structure for fasting: http://bit.ly/2ivHC5d
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Great, if you had a handy decoder ring to help separate the few things they got right from all the other batshit they didn't.
Sounds like you're committing base rate fallacy. For most people, you have to also consider what did religion got right. Scientism has its own decoder rings...
The fasting traditions in religion didn't make health claims.
In this regard, religion 1, science 0.
Most of what had been "known" for millennia was wrong. That is the whole point of doing science.
Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later In other words, you do not need science to survive (we’ve done it for several hundred million years) , but you need to survive to do science.
Probabilistic structure for fasting http://bit.ly/2ivHC5d
The old religions have known about fasting for millennia. Science is way behind.
"Scaling... not incompatible to be libertarian at the state level, communist at the commune level... Singapore vs China... Norway (size of NYC borough) vs Canada vs USA" --Nassim Taleb http://youtu.bet3m8s/
corrected link: https://youtu.be/Dn_XEDPIeU8?t...
Opinion | Trump just deported a Nazi. That’s a move I can get behind. https://wapo.st/2whWU0F?tid=ss...
I think that's called "fascism." didn't Nixon famously say in 1971, "we're all fascists now"?
"Scaling... not incompatible to be libertarian at the state level, communist at the commune level... Singapore vs China... Norway (size of NYC borough) vs Canada vs USA" --Nassim Taleb http://youtu.bet3m8s/
Fertilizer & pesticide run off http://bit.ly/1nCBv9S
"Name one ecosystem that is better off for having agriculture moved into it?" Toby Hemenway http://bit.ly/1pnapoW
Want to save the planet/ Try consuming less resources and energy. Nicole Foss on renewables (and nuclear) http://bit.ly/2rzS5Pq
home to the tallest trees... Kaure, Alerce, Sequoia/Redwood, Cedars of Lebanon... all chopped down by agriculturalists https://youtu.be/kb_t-sVVzF0?t...
The old adage "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" applies here. Media is more entertainment than news and info. Bad reporting... fake news... all part of the entertainment.
We're either listening to podcasts from morons, or we're reading books from scientists and becoming wise. You're obviously doing the former.