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  • @blakestaceyMAtoSneerClubYud goes full seed oil-ist
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    43 days ago

    xcancel link, since nitter.net is kaput.

    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.

    Reply:

    This systematic review and meta-analysis doesn’t seem to indicate that linoleic acid is unusually bad for all-cause mortality or cardiovascular disease events.

    https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011094.pub4

    Yud writes back:

    And is there another meta-analysis showing the opposite? I kinda just don’t trust those anymore, unless somebody I trust vouches for the meta-analysis.

    Ah, yes, the argumentum ad other-sources-must-exist-somewhere-um.






  • You don’t even have to be well-known to get crank attention. Post anything with “quantum” in the title on the arXiv and they’ll find your e-mail.

    Source: this is one of the few times when I can say “trust me, bro” and be entirely sincere about it




  • One thing that may not be visible from outside the profession is that there are a lot of steps in between air-hockey tables and the research frontier, especially for the part of the frontier that gets the most press — black holes, Large Hadron Collider stuff, quantum computing, etc. Wanting to understand any of those things at a level better than (bong rip) man, like, quantum mechanics, dude, requires systematic study. Doing that entirely on one’s own might not be impossible, but it’s damn hard.



  • When I got back home and regaled my friends with my mountain stories, one of my friends joked that I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt. So I reached out to some people and got in.

    What a fucking idiot. Also a fascist collaborator, but importantly, a fucking idiot.

























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