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Failing the smell test.

This feels more like someone trying to sell you something than help you find satiating foods.

There really is only one study in the field of satiety: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15701207_A_Satiety_...

Which to the articles credit, it links in reference '3', but then fails to use the data within.

The journal article cites potatoes as having a Satiety Index % of 323+-51. The next highest is Ling Fish with 225+-30, yet TFA omits mentioning potatoes and chooses rather to harp on about protein protein protein which is very faddy diet advice across all major social media platforms at the moment.


Focusing on reducing carbs and maximizing protein doesn't really seem faddish anymore. You don't have to go full Keto, but the carbs do spike your glucose and prevent your body from canabalizing fat for weight loss. At least reducing your carb portions is really effective. It took my clinical dietician 4 meetings to get that into my head at least.


The effectiveness or viability of protein maxxxing in diet is tangential to the stated goal of TFA: satiety.

My point was more to say the 'protein all the things' angle of TFA has more to do with the popularity of this diet advice right now than anything informed by satiety research.


Sure, I hope I didn't state otherwise. Prefer protein over carbs when you are hungry, if you have to eat carbs, consider really small portions so you don't spike your insulin too much. You basically eat all the veggies you want, and your protein budget is pretty generous as well although you still need to watch calories on it (150 calories for 40g of protein is ok, but stay away from almonds).

My problem was that I was still eating large bowls of what I thought was a healthy cereal, but even if the calories looked good on paper, the insulin spike was killing weight loss.


Correct. People get mad about the low carb thing because they have come to believe, via habit, that the insane number of carbs on their plate is normal. It's not. There's hidden sugar and carbs in almost everything. Moreover most carbs people consume are highly processed.

People don't get fat eating brown rice. They get fat eating cereal with hidden sweets. 'healthy' oatmeal that's laden with sugar. Fried potatoes, etc.


Brown rice and wheat based carbs are better than processed, but they are still carbs and will spike your insulin if you eat too much. I’ve pretty much given up eating them, but I had a small bowl of cereal tonight so can’t throw them off completely. You get a few carbs in your meat, veggies, fruit, etc…so it’s not like avoiding staples means you get no carbs at all.


Don't eat too much?


> People get mad about the low carb thing because they have come to believe, via habit, that the insane number of carbs on their plate is normal. It's not.

It's not normal, it's Nixon!


Yeah it's the substitution of low density carbs for calories with high density fats that really makes the difference in satiation. It really only works while in keto (because you are fully burning fat for fuel) otherwise you are just going to end up storing the fat as excess and your body will go after your own protein as a calorie source (which is very very bad).


Also none of their satiety scale illustrations show the humble white potato.


These current llm companies will be unable to "crack AGI".

Some independent researcher will, and it will require ridiculously less compute then the embarrassing things these llm companies produce.

Unfortunately, these current llm companies will still be in the best position: liquid capital, relationships with more capital, access to hardware; to productize the discovery.

At that time I hope these resources will be nationalized and handed to the public.


Ah yes, there's that craven willingness to abandon your own best interests to your oppressor that HN fosters and loves so much.

Demand better protections. Demand better pay.

Demand your rights. Demand accountability for oppressors.


The goofy thing is to think that you're the first person to have made a "demand" and that anyone cares about your "demand." The reason people are oppressed is not because they have failed to make a request not to be.

Real "let me speak to your manager" activism. You have to have been sheltered in a really extreme way not only to say things like this, but to listen to it without laughing.

Here's some unrequested advice: the way to make simple people follow you is to make them feel like leaders among people they feel superior to, and to make them feel like rebels among people they feel inferior to. Keep this in mind and introspect when you find yourself mindlessly sloganeering.


> The goofy thing is to think that you're the first person to have made a "demand" and that anyone cares about your "demand."

Unsure who you are addressing, but clearly its someone other than me.

Did you see where the OP implied that any activism is useless? Got any harsh words for that philosophy?


You know what, pessimizer, you're right. We should all bow down and submit to our lord Sam Altman right away. We should shove everything we produce into his meat-grinder because there's nothing we can do about it.

The LLMs are harmful to the business of creating software. Full stop. Either we can do something about it (like expose the futility of licensing in general), or we can just die.

While I think this licensing effort is likely to be ignored, I applaud it and hope more things like this continue to be created. The silicon valley VC hose is truly evil.


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