As you may have guessed, this isn’t the first time the subject has come up. Frustration builds.
Fair. I’d seen some of the previous conversations or I wouldn’t have responded as I did; but I’m guessing I missed occasions on which Eliezer demonstrated that his body chemistry was provably not doing what theory would predict it should (with regard to ketosis), which I find much more convincing than “I tried X, Y, and Z and none of them worked.”
If such occasions exist, then I just plain missed them and I’ve stepped on toes unnecessarily, and I apologize.
That seems technically inevitable. The question then becomes whether this happens before or after your body enters a coma. (Or, more practically, whether valuable muscle mass is lost before undesired fat and whether the effect on fatigue and energy levels is debilitating.)
I’m going to guess “before muscle loss or coma”, on the grounds that fat is supposedly for long-term energy storage, and I would expect “break down muscle and/or go into coma in preference to using stored energy” to be maladaptive even in the EEA. I have no controlled study to support that guess, however.
I could see “after excessive fatigue,” I suppose; that might be physically necessary (fat burning is slow, IIRC) but not so maladaptive as to defeat the purpose of storing fat.
Fair. I’d seen some of the previous conversations or I wouldn’t have responded as I did; but I’m guessing I missed occasions on which Eliezer demonstrated that his body chemistry was provably not doing what theory would predict it should (with regard to ketosis), which I find much more convincing than “I tried X, Y, and Z and none of them worked.”
If such occasions exist, then I just plain missed them and I’ve stepped on toes unnecessarily, and I apologize.
I’m going to guess “before muscle loss or coma”, on the grounds that fat is supposedly for long-term energy storage, and I would expect “break down muscle and/or go into coma in preference to using stored energy” to be maladaptive even in the EEA. I have no controlled study to support that guess, however.
I could see “after excessive fatigue,” I suppose; that might be physically necessary (fat burning is slow, IIRC) but not so maladaptive as to defeat the purpose of storing fat.