The iodine comment is confusing, but not clearly wrong. I experienced low thyroid levels that were likely due to excess iodine from kelp powder. But I wouldn’t worry about getting too much iodine from a multivitamin.
I’m currently taking chromium supplements, due to a test result showing I had below average levels, plus the advice of someone whose opinion I trust a lot more than I trust Louie’s opinion.
He was at the time one of the MIRI people, one of EY’s co-workers so it’s reasonable to believe that’s where Eliezer’s beliefs come from. Of course, the discussion might also happened first and then Louie wrote it up, but that’s basically where the belief comes from.
I’m uncertain to what extend the claim is actually true. There’s some further LessWrong discussion that you could dig up from the achieves. As my memory goes, that further discussion also didn’t clearly resolve the question for me.
My personal philosophy with supplements is “Only take supplements when you have a good reason to believe that they are good for you, or you have a way to query your intuition for whether you need it (with Magnesium supplements sometimes I feel like having one and other times I don’t and consider that a signal based on which to make decisions)”.
I’m so surprised by the complaint about iodine in that link that it makes it hard to take the rest seriously. Is this guy not a crank?
The iodine comment is confusing, but not clearly wrong. I experienced low thyroid levels that were likely due to excess iodine from kelp powder. But I wouldn’t worry about getting too much iodine from a multivitamin.
I’m currently taking chromium supplements, due to a test result showing I had below average levels, plus the advice of someone whose opinion I trust a lot more than I trust Louie’s opinion.
He was at the time one of the MIRI people, one of EY’s co-workers so it’s reasonable to believe that’s where Eliezer’s beliefs come from. Of course, the discussion might also happened first and then Louie wrote it up, but that’s basically where the belief comes from.
I’m uncertain to what extend the claim is actually true. There’s some further LessWrong discussion that you could dig up from the achieves. As my memory goes, that further discussion also didn’t clearly resolve the question for me.
My personal philosophy with supplements is “Only take supplements when you have a good reason to believe that they are good for you, or you have a way to query your intuition for whether you need it (with Magnesium supplements sometimes I feel like having one and other times I don’t and consider that a signal based on which to make decisions)”.