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Comment Re: Better to have Spinach with a shot of whiskey (Score 1) 170

The mechanism of action is perfectly well understood, "correlation". Red meat consumption correlates with unhealthy diet and unhealthy lifestyle.

The mechanism of action is a chain of causation. For example, the acetaldehyde in cigarette smoke damages DNA. When a certain gene is damaged, it becomes an oncogene which leads to cancer.

A correlation is not a causation. That's math.

Comment Re: Better to have Spinach with a shot of whiskey (Score 0) 170

The real problem with this advice is it focuses HEAVILY on questionable (or poorly understood) edge cases. There is some support for the hypothesis that eating processed/red meat is bad, although it's not clear, and the difference is slight. The mechanism of action are not well understood. BUT NO: ->

-> For the vast majority of people, they would find a much bigger benefit if they ate a little spinach every day. That is a MUCH more effective change, well supported by research and experiment. <-

To extend/improve life, eat spinach. Cooked well (in beef juices), it's delicious.

Comment Re:Can't wait for robotaxi bankruptcy (Score 1) 129

No, Amsterdam isn't like that *in all places*. Most of the city is actually quite free from traffic due to policies that keep traffic out of the city.

That's most cities I think (I haven't been to most cities, so I'm going off a sampling).

Cities mostly have a few areas that are crowded with traffic, but the rest is fairly easy to drive around. San Francisco has a reputation for bad driving, but it's only a few areas that are actually bad.

Comment Re:Mathematician commentary included (Score 1) 74

One of the mathematicians commenting pointed out that this is hardly a proof at all, but rather a counter-example.

It's hard to say intelligent things about what the AI is actually doing, because they haven't released the source code. It's not just an LLM, it's an LLM with some kind of algorithm tied to it somehow. In particular, it didn't need to write out a logical train of thought (which would be a proof), all it had to do was say, "here is a tighter way to pack dots on a grid."

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