Re: Consensus diet? RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

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Keith Elis wrote:
> Eliezer Yudkowsky:
>
>>>- Moderate alcohol is good for you.
>>
>>But the neurons! Think of the poor, suffering neurons!
>
> Even alcohol-induced neuronal damage is somewhat controversial according
> to this guy:
>
> http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol31/vol31n14/n5.html

Yes, alcohol causes dendritic changes (damage) in ways that are not
clearly understood. Sounds like a big fat unnecessary risk to me. I'd
rather die of a heart attack than be not quite smart enough - all things
considered.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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