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Okay. I will just make a new account. Welcome to the internet, newb.

My final thought before I leave you is that you are likely emotionally vested in this issue and so your limbic system is blinding your neo-cortex. Perhaps you or someone you care f…

"Your central thesis -- molecules that taste like sugar have the same shape -- is unalloyed horseshit." Wow you are so smart! Yay!!! You use big boy terms like "central thesis." Co…

Well then you are getting better at applying logic blindly.

Again, you are cherrypicking any flaw you see and then attacking. For a logically-trained person you are misusing it. Being overly logical can become a negative when it is used to …

You are easy to read. You admit a small error so that you can feel justified on your larger point. Hard to explain, but it is like reading the body language of a younglin. Sometime…

LMAO. Did I say that analogy is the end of the road? You are one entertaining dude.

Very correct. Cooking also breaks down starches into sugars. And we are the cooking species. It helped drive our evolution forward. It all seems to be about balance.

What I am trying to say is that if we close our minds right away then we will miss obvious answers. We will tend to overcomplicate things and reach for our most-expensive tools. I'…

The French also don't snack all the time, and also cook many of their own meals.

I get annoyed when people stop a discussion dead in its tracks by asking for references like this, especially when they can easily look it up themselves if they actually cared abou…

We evolved near the equator. There are more sweet things there year-round. Don't forget about honey. Fiber, fiber, fiber. Sugar seems to be okay when it is packaged together with i…

"People basically evolved without any sugar (fructose) except what they could get in fruit" What about honey? Edit: don't forget that sugar is in every plant that makes use of phot…

Oh come on.. Nutrition is not that complicated. It only looks complicated because we are looking too closely at the details, resulting in myopia. We are overthinking it. For hundre…

So what you are saying is that we should censor who we are when we are on the web? For some reason that sounds wrong. The web should adapt to us, not the other way around. That is …

Yeah well Paul Graham is also losing touch. A massive policeforce doesn't scale.

There are extremes on both ends. Somewhere in the middle the truth lies.

Over many hours of awareness and training I would agree. But at the end of the day the elephant calls the shots, not the rider. Unless we learn to influence the beast more and more…

All people are immature. Maybe we should stop trying to hide that, acting all proper. I talk that way as well, it's better than censwhoring your thoughts 24/7. All people are also …

Because they're philosophy professors..

Does that include the episode on Top Gear that was scripted into breaking their Tesla down in the middle of a test run? According to your logic, 3 percent of scientists deny global…

Yes. Everyone does from time to time. Perhaps if we learned to speak in a less authoritative way more people would take our views seriously..

I think you need to have a better understanding of how to talk to people without sounding like a dick.