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by mjamil 511 days ago
Goodhart’s Law in action. Targeting weight loss at the expense of overall health is a surefire way of guaranteeing early mortality.
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slt2021 511 days ago
reminds me of obsession of some politicians with GDP as a single metric to optimize the economy (while offshoring jobs and local population deals with stress via drugs/opiates/antidepressants)
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absolutelastone 511 days ago
A nonzero number of people will probably read this article and think "dangerous and gross.. but, exactly much weight loss are we talking about here?"
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