Comment by Rockenots (Ekefa) on On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas · 2023-01-30T03:01:08.211Z · LW · GW

It turns out that in adults, BMI is negatively correlated with height. So, if human heights have been increasing over time, we'd actually expect BMI to decrease over time. 

Comment by Rockenots (Ekefa) on Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient · 2022-11-01T03:58:57.595Z · LW · GW

Since molecular squiggle maximizers and paperclip maximizers both result in a universe-shard that's a boring wasteland, despite the fact that they maximize different things, what's the practical difference between talking about molecular squiggle maximizers instead of paperclip maximizers?