Maybe this should be posted in Discussion? That way more people will see it.
Soothsilver
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I’m not sure I would trust that calculator. I’m not used to US units so I put in 84kg (my weight) and it said “with that BMI you can’t be alive” so I put in 840 thinking maybe it wants the first decimal as well. Now I realize it wanted pounds. And for this, 840lbs, it also outputed 70 years.
I’m not sure where the calculator gets its data from.
Wow, I would have never guessed that.
On the internet, but especially on the HPMOR subrreddit, I find notations such as “Canon!Harry” or “Vampire!Durkon” or “HPMOR!Quirrell”. Does the exclamation mark simply stand for a space, or does it have additional meaning? And more importantly, where does the notation come from? Where was it invented?
I also ask myself these questions and I’m unable to answer them. In the end, I exercise and modify my diet as much as my will allows without causing me too much stress.
As for valuing years of life, if I considered that the very best outcome of cryonics (as HungryHobo described) is certain, then, well, even for very small values that will result in cryonics giving me far more utility than exercice. I don’t value later years of my life that low.
Yudkowsky believes that cryonics has a greater than 50% chance of working, and that we will be able to have fun for any amount of time, so for him, the expected value of cryonics is ginormous.
I get quite a bit of disutility from forcing myself to eat a bit more healthily. My food diversity is very power; if I try to ingest one of many foods I don’t like, I will throw up. Attempting to eat those foods anyway causes me great discomfort. So that’s not a great way for me to increase overall utility.
On the last paragraph, it appears to me that the two basics—avoiding obesity and not smoking—are the best thing you can pester them about. But the other lifestyle choices have the expected benefit of a few years total, if you don’t expect any new medical technology to be developed.
The tone of its Wikipedia page is strongly against its usefulness.
Do you know of any remedy or prevention for hiccups? I can’t get anything trusthworthy out of the internet nor out of friends and family. All just anecdotes.
To the question, the average age is 27.6; the average level of study is a completed Bachelor’s degree.
Do any of you do anything nontraditional to improve your health/longevity? What I’m thinking about is radical lifestyle changes, such as using dozens of supplements like Kurzweil or mixing one’s lunch out of raw ingredients like Bostrom, or avoiding all car travel and similar stuff, not exercise.
When I switched dentists three years ago, the new dentist claimed to have found several issues during initial check-in and also said that my wisdom teeth need to be torn out as soon as possible. So I have that experience as well. Although, since then, she never complained about anything even though my flossing routine worsened considerably.
What do Crocker’s rules have to do with this? Also, it seems carrying antibacterial wipe to use after shaking hands is excessive. The chance that he’ll suffer serious health problems from infection by handshake is so small that I doubt even the time taken for all these efforts is worth it.
And yet “His intensity is too untidily contained, evident in his harried gait on the streets outside his office (he does not drive), in his voracious consumption of audiobooks (played at two or three times the normal speed, to maximize efficiency), and his fastidious guarding against illnesses (he avoids handshakes and wipes down silverware beneath a tablecloth).”
I was surprised to see how health-conscious Bostrom is. Making his own foods in order to maximize health and not shaking hands. I thought that was limited to Kurzweil only.
I don’t go to Main because it’s always flooded with Meetup articles.
In the same way other people do? I don’t see how it would be more difficult for Alcor members. They don’t die any sooner than the general population.
It will still be more “me” than paperclips.
You might still want your children to live rather than die.
I never realized how many people there are who say “it’s a good thing if AI obliterates humanity, it deserves to live more than we do”.
That data must be flawed. Only by 1980 did life expectancy pass 52 years at at the age of 20. That paper suggests that hunter-gatherers were healthier than people in 1980′s which cannot be true. (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html)
I think the most plausible is that he does shake hands and he does not use anti-bacterial wipe, merely that he mentioned to the reporter “I prefer not to shake hands to keep myself safe” and that the reporter exaggerated.