Re: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 14:12:07 MDT

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    Barbara Lamar wrote:
    >
    > I don't know whether I failed abysmally at communicating or if you're
    > deliberately misrepresenting what I wrote. Let's take a look at the
    > evidence. I wrote: "But I do find it difficult to believe that early humans
    > with no hunting gear more sophisticated than the spear could have gotten a
    > large % of calories from meat." Should I have spelled out the fact that
    > there were many advances in hunting technology in relatively recent times?
    > (recent in the evolutionary sense; it's clear from your comments above that
    > you understand the term "recent" in this context) The atlatl, for example.
    > The bow and arrow. Are you suggesting that bows and arrows are no more
    > sophisticated than spears? Or that there are only two levels of hunting
    > technology -- spears and guns?

    Barbara:

    http://www.beyondveg.com/
    http://www.beyondveg.com/cat/paleodiet/index.shtml 

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

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