One of the common comments people make about weight control is: "It's just calories in / calories out." It's true, but it's also wrong in important ways. For example, one of the things that we know happens once people reach their thirties is that they start to lose 3-5% of their muscle mass per decade. … Continue reading The Fallacy of Calories In / Calories Out as a Mental Model for Weight Control
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Three Branches of Ethics
The three branches of normative ethics (i.e., consequentialism, deontology, and virtue theory) are a question of whether you think goodness is a relative, objective, or an intrinsic property, respectively.
