Bookmarking because this is something I’d like to see discussed here and hope there are some interesting answers when I check back.
I come from an Indian household where my mom follows all sorts of ancient spiritual advice, some of which is now more mainstream (like looking at the sun in the morning and going on long fasts) and some of which still strikes me as completely unbelievable (like leaving water in the sun to absorb energy). But she’s in absurdly good health at 61 years old and could honestly pass for 20 years younger, despite living a very hard and stressful life.
My takeaway from this is that we should be really careful about partial knowledge about complex systems. Simple models and imperfect descriptions of the systems are useful, but we should remember that any corollary of these models might be flawed in a way we don’t know. On a related note, I’m skeptical that we’re really taking all risks of SAI into account.
Bookmarking because this is something I’d like to see discussed here and hope there are some interesting answers when I check back.
I come from an Indian household where my mom follows all sorts of ancient spiritual advice, some of which is now more mainstream (like looking at the sun in the morning and going on long fasts) and some of which still strikes me as completely unbelievable (like leaving water in the sun to absorb energy). But she’s in absurdly good health at 61 years old and could honestly pass for 20 years younger, despite living a very hard and stressful life.
My takeaway from this is that we should be really careful about partial knowledge about complex systems. Simple models and imperfect descriptions of the systems are useful, but we should remember that any corollary of these models might be flawed in a way we don’t know. On a related note, I’m skeptical that we’re really taking all risks of SAI into account.
Ultraviolet disinfection?
Just a speculation, generated by nailing the custom to the wall and seeing what hypothesis accretes around it.