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  • As I understand from the other comments, it’s a place to put the dishes after they’ve been cleaned and ready for rinsing? The way I’ve always done it is I clean the largest vessel first, then everything goes into that vessel until it fills up, then do a round of rinsing. If I don’t have a large dirty vessel, I take out a large clean mixing bowl for this purpose.






  • I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:

    1. Having empathy
    2. Ability to display empathy

    Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material) and lots of mental health issues that are a result of being poor. Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.












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    As far as I’m concerned, “intelligence” in the context of AI basically just means the ability to do things that we consider to be difficult. It’s both very hand-wavy and a constantly moving goalpost. So a hypothetical pacman ghost is intelligent before we’ve figured out how to do it. After it’s been figured out and implemented, it ceases to be intelligent but we continue to call it intelligent for historical reasons.


  • I guess I can’t really contest it if you say a cup of olive oil would keep you full. That’s not something I’m willing to try for myself. I’m curious about this butter trick you mention though. I can’t find anything about it.

    Consider a steak, which is just fat and protein… it starts delicious and wonderful, but quite rapidly it loses its luster and by the end eating the last few pieces can be quite a chore… this is how all food should be, and it can be, in the absence of carbohydrates.

    My stomach capacity for a good steak or plain rice is approximately the same for both as measured by Calorie content. Though, combing both does allow me to eat more in total, so I guess maybe that’s what you’re trying to say. In any case, I’m not saying you’re wrong on this point. My criticism was about your comment consisting of a bunch of disjoint statements under the guise of being supporting sentences.


  • There is truth in that protein has an important role in hunger signaling, but it’s not being well supported by the other claims you’re making.

    over-eating fat or protein is very difficult - the body will simply be full

    Fats are very easy to overeat though. I can chug a cup of olive oil in less than a minute and instantly meet my daily energy expenditure. I’ve never tried this myself because I would miss out on a lot of other nutrients, but I imagine I would be hungry again pretty soon afterwards.

    With carbs, that drive blood glucose, and that drive insulin, eating anything will be used for anabolism (that is what insulin does)

    Your body does a lot more with its energy than building new molecules. For example, ATP powers the movement of your muscles. So you could either consider ATP synthesis as anabolism, making this claim a non-sequitur (i.e. how does saying “carbs can be used to move muscle” support the claim of “low carbs will help you lose fat”?), or it’s not anabolism, in which case you’re just plain wrong.

    Sadly calories are a useful lie, but not actually how the body works. Calories are how much energy is released in a tiny oven. The human body does not necessarily use everything that has a calorie attached to it.

    No, we don’t use everything. But it is a useful way of measuring what we do use for the purposes of weight control. It’s trivial to verify for yourself. Just count the Calories in everything you eat and see that your weight gains and losses are very closely tied to that number. So it is indeed a “lie” in that sense that the number you see probably isn’t actually what your body is burning, and “useful” in the sense that it will tell you whether you’ll gain or lose weight. I assume that’s how you got to calling it a “useful lie”. I just don’t see how that justifies your stance that no one should have to count Calories.










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