Thank you for the link! Glad to see someone uses the intuitive method. My complaint was about why this isn’t the standard approach. Like, recently I was reading a textbook on nutrition (the actual school textbook for cooks; I was curious what they learn), where the information was provided in the form of “X is found in A, B, C, D, also in E” without any indication how often are you supposed to eat any of these.
(If I said this outside of Less Wrong, I would expect the response to be: “more is better, of course, unless it is too much, of course; everything in moderation”, which sounds like an answer, but is not much.)
And with corona and the articles on vitamin D, I opened the Wikipedia, saw “cod liver” as the top result, thought it was no problem they sell it in the shop and it’s not expensive and it tastes okay, I just need to know how much, then I ran the numbers… and then I realized “shit, 99% of people will not do this, even if they get curious and read the Wikipedia page”. :(
Thank you for the link! Glad to see someone uses the intuitive method. My complaint was about why this isn’t the standard approach. Like, recently I was reading a textbook on nutrition (the actual school textbook for cooks; I was curious what they learn), where the information was provided in the form of “X is found in A, B, C, D, also in E” without any indication how often are you supposed to eat any of these.
(If I said this outside of Less Wrong, I would expect the response to be: “more is better, of course, unless it is too much, of course; everything in moderation”, which sounds like an answer, but is not much.)
And with corona and the articles on vitamin D, I opened the Wikipedia, saw “cod liver” as the top result, thought it was no problem they sell it in the shop and it’s not expensive and it tastes okay, I just need to know how much, then I ran the numbers… and then I realized “shit, 99% of people will not do this, even if they get curious and read the Wikipedia page”. :(