I think evidence-updating is kinda common, what striked me as really new here is tabooing.
So that one. Not getting too hung up about terms / categories. I would be happy enough if at least the habit of doing a quick round of taboo whenever anyone feels a discussion is too attached to terminology would be widespread on places like Reddit.
For example, I kinda like economics. This is why I absolutely hate it people use “capitalism” as a flag to rally for or against, and then quality goes down the drain, it all becomes a playground fight. We all know (or if engaging in these issues, then should) that it unpacks to two different and unrelated terms, one is broadly a voluntary transactions based system, and the other is a specific distribution of property where most people don’t have any so they need jobs offered by those who have. It would be so easy to not use this word just use the appropriate unpacking.
There is something about all this tabooing thing that reminds me of when I used to be a fairly active Buddhist. Similar things were done.
Personal life, living better:
Tough question, but probably not trying to be “clever”. That is, not ranking solutions on the complexity or how sophisticated they look but more like accepting, taking, or coming up with “boring advice”. There is a HUGE urge to show off your brain sparkles if you have an IQ over 120 and this can be highly counter-productive. It is really humiliating and enlightening to see how more efficient people can be who are not trying to be too clever. I know a guy who is a textbook average mind, works in a warehouse, likes football, not much else. They wanted to live in the UK and did it so that he moved, got a job, and then his girlfriend follow a few months later. Anyway he figured it is time to lose some weight and he was not much into cooking anyway, so he just filled a big tupperware every 2-3 days with sliced cucumbers and tuna from cans and that salad was the only thing he ate. It was, of course, very efficient, having found two of the least calorie dense foods that exist. And yet there are intelligent people who struggle with their weight for decades with the most complicated insulin response based diets. Committing hard to something simple is often the best—just the problem is that it lacks glory, hence, motivation...
Anyway he figured it is time to lose some weight and he was not much into cooking anyway, so he just filled a big tupperware every 2-3 days with sliced cucumbers and tuna from cans and that salad was the only thing he ate.
Eating tuna every day likely gives you more mercury than the European Food Safety Authority considers to be safe.
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I think evidence-updating is kinda common, what striked me as really new here is tabooing.
So that one. Not getting too hung up about terms / categories. I would be happy enough if at least the habit of doing a quick round of taboo whenever anyone feels a discussion is too attached to terminology would be widespread on places like Reddit.
For example, I kinda like economics. This is why I absolutely hate it people use “capitalism” as a flag to rally for or against, and then quality goes down the drain, it all becomes a playground fight. We all know (or if engaging in these issues, then should) that it unpacks to two different and unrelated terms, one is broadly a voluntary transactions based system, and the other is a specific distribution of property where most people don’t have any so they need jobs offered by those who have. It would be so easy to not use this word just use the appropriate unpacking.
There is something about all this tabooing thing that reminds me of when I used to be a fairly active Buddhist. Similar things were done.
Personal life, living better:
Tough question, but probably not trying to be “clever”. That is, not ranking solutions on the complexity or how sophisticated they look but more like accepting, taking, or coming up with “boring advice”. There is a HUGE urge to show off your brain sparkles if you have an IQ over 120 and this can be highly counter-productive. It is really humiliating and enlightening to see how more efficient people can be who are not trying to be too clever. I know a guy who is a textbook average mind, works in a warehouse, likes football, not much else. They wanted to live in the UK and did it so that he moved, got a job, and then his girlfriend follow a few months later. Anyway he figured it is time to lose some weight and he was not much into cooking anyway, so he just filled a big tupperware every 2-3 days with sliced cucumbers and tuna from cans and that salad was the only thing he ate. It was, of course, very efficient, having found two of the least calorie dense foods that exist. And yet there are intelligent people who struggle with their weight for decades with the most complicated insulin response based diets. Committing hard to something simple is often the best—just the problem is that it lacks glory, hence, motivation...
Eating tuna every day likely gives you more mercury than the European Food Safety Authority considers to be safe.
True but also depends on the type, I think the most popular type here is the skipjack tuna, which is classified as moderate mercury content.
Depends where the fish comes from; but +1 for promoting awareness of mercury risks
What kind of negative health consequences did the diet have?
I don’t know of any. It was about two months anyway, droppig a good 10kg, AFAIK micronutrient deficiencies usually take longer to build up.