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PaperclipPerfector  12d ago (text post)   1996 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025

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Ah, see, we were in the land of memes, not the finer points of research. This is a fine point, indeed, and most people should probably mostly ignore it. The meme version of the constrained daily energy expenditure model is mostly wrong, anyway (as opposed to the real version). It's certainly not 100%. It's dose dependent, etc. One can get into the estimates of this and that, but it's probably mostly swamped by individual variability for most people, and most people are probably not taking a genuine step function with their exercise in a way that lends itself to making these sorts of estimates useful. If anything, if someone is actually paying close enough attention for this sort of thing to matter, the step function is likely to be a step down function, where a normally-highly-athletic person who is paying close attention to their energy balance gets injured or something and their physical activity level goes down significantly for an extended period of time.

Ah, see, we were in the land of memes, not the finer points of research. This is a fine point, indeed, and most people should probably mostly ignore it.

I literally cited someone's research

Yeah, and like I said, before that, we were in the land of memes. I went on to talk about the research that you sort of kind of cited. You didn't actually cite it in enough detail to tell if you were just invoking the meme version of that research or the real version of that research.

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