New diet villain just dropped. Believe or disbelieve this specific one, "fat" or even "polyunsaturated fat" increasingly looks like a failure as a natural category. Only finer-grained concepts like "linoleic acid" are useful for carving reality at the joints.
@sailor_sega_saturn@TinyTimmyTokyo@nyrath I like to call LessWrong “modern-day Scientology” and that moniker seems more and more appropriate with each passing month.
@sailor_sega_saturn@TinyTimmyTokyo@nyrath For someone claiming to be rational (meaning putting reality above superstition), he [Yudkowsky] really did create what is essentially a proto-religion. Hence, Scientology.
I am literally a devout (if reformist) Christian and I’m less superstitious than that clown shoe and his zombies.
@sailor_sega_saturn @TinyTimmyTokyo @nyrath I like to call LessWrong “modern-day Scientology” and that moniker seems more and more appropriate with each passing month.
@sailor_sega_saturn @TinyTimmyTokyo @nyrath For someone claiming to be rational (meaning putting reality above superstition), he [Yudkowsky] really did create what is essentially a proto-religion. Hence, Scientology.
I am literally a devout (if reformist) Christian and I’m less superstitious than that clown shoe and his zombies.