because if it did, the fat rats in this Scott Alexander blog could rationalize themselves into a healthy weight
A couple weeks ago, Scott wrote a blog discussing the availability of GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic and how the FDA's actions might price consumers out of the drugs they now depend on. Vaguely interesting, as are most of Scott's blogs on topics on the periphery of healthcare. But of course, being a topic about fats it also encourages fat logic.
One commenter named Bob gave the sage advice to consume less calories, which actually caused Scott to bite on the comment:
Buckle in, because now we're in longpostville:
Scott continuing to bullshit around what is being said and focusing on mass rather than calories
This person claims whether he goes over or under his caloric budget depends entirely on whether he licks his spoon clean of the last dollop of yogurt
This guy compares eating less to literal self flagellation. Surprisingly his comment was quite concise for an ACT post
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I'd rather whip myself every 30 seconds for eternity than being fat
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Thermodynamics is about energy you fricking r-slur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence
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Mass and energy are equivalent, so adipose tissue is literally the same as water weight.
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Are you even really fat if your stomach can't proton decay your food for energy?
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"Being hungry as a fat person while trying not to eat is the same as having to pee and holding your pee in!"
Not only does Scott frick up the Law of Thermodynamics comparison he fricks up the comparison between two biological systems as well.
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"Rationalist" btw
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I know this is probably a stupid comment, but I've recently been super hungry and eating more often. However, my weight has stayed the same at 98 pounds. I do not exercise and I despise water, except for showers. Can metabolism randomly increase even in one's early 30s? I am not pregnant.
Also, great post. You do a great job with these screenshots. Do you follow this guy? How did you find his writing?
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Yeah (you have cancer)
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Or does cancer have ME?
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Call me a tumor because I grow bigger when I'm inside you
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Scott Alexander has been pretty well known on the weird parts of the Internet for like a decade now. He used to post on slatestarcodex.com but abandoned it in favor of his Substack blog a few years ago.
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He's been a giant kitty after the NYT doxxed him
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Tapeworms
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The original Ozempic
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You could have a parasite. Lmk I might get tapewormpilled if it really works.
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NEAT energy and your body and mind compensating by eating less/moving more on other occasions happens frequently. Especially for those who have always been naturally skinny.
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could be an insulin thing. mindblowing fact but calories-in/calories-out has always been bullshit and you will just piss out ketones if your fat cells don't store them, which is controlled by insulin.
teen girls with type 1 diabetes can have eating disorders where they know that if they don't take their insulin, the calories will get pissed right out and they'll be skinny.
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Recently as in a couple of weeks?
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I only clicked on this because I thought it was about Jason Alexander.
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I wish rationalist blog posts could suffer from shrinkage
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Who said they can't? Next rationalist you see, shove them in the pool!
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The Drama Fund. Upmarseys for people.
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I AM EXPERIENCING A MILD DISCOMFORT, I'M GOING TO DIE
First worlders are like women, they have no frame of reference because of the privileged life they lead. Dieting is starvation, hunger is torture, four big macs is normal meal.
Kill all fatties and turn them into soylent green.
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They are rationalist until someone tries to rationally lose weight.
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Everybody
knows weight 
loss is impossible 
without drugs 
Chud. Here is 10 billion word essay on why.
I have over the years enjoyed some rationalist stuff, but it's really
funny 
to see their blind 
spots considering how much they want to "understand reality"
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Apparently the Harry Potter fanfic author is also fat and spergs out about fatness and calories
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Not gonna find the pic because its horrifying, but i thought he recently slimmed down.
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did he finally check his metabolic disprivilege?
well good for him
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I want to strangle him for his absurd self-serving metaphors
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Not only are his metaphors self-serving, they're wrong. His comparisons don't hold any logical weight, which is something very common amongst rationalist debatetards online.
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We've already seen her nudes so it's like... There's nothing to even work towards. She's absolutely mid -- not in a good way, not in a bad way. She may as well be my wife with how average she is.
Snapshots:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-ozempocalypse-is-nigh/comment/99826410:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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If they shit posted theyd burn calories. Laughter is also good for the soul.
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