From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 17:40:38 MDT
gts wrote:
>
> This goes to a problem with meanings that I think has stymied my
> communications with several people here in these diet threads. Unless we are
> including unnatural supplements and medicines in the definition of diet, it
> is in my view a logical and scientific mistake to make a distinction between
> the terms "optimally healthy diet" and "diet to which one is best adapted."
> To me these terms are synonymous. The optimally healthy diet, whatever it
> might be, is *defined* as the diet to which one is best adapted.
"Adapted" is a term of art referring to the actual history of an organism.
The optimally healthy diet may not be the diet to which we are,
historically, adapted.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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