Nick Szabo  🔑

@NickSzabo4 The generic advice "drink milk!" is obviously wrong, considering lactase nonpersistence. …

@NickSzabo4 … But the generic advice "eat no carbs!" is not obviously wrong.

@zooko Ppl w/low-carb ancstrs ~ maladapted to carbs, low-milk ancstrs ~ maladapted to milk. Ppl w/low-cholesterol ancstrs? #MuchYetToLearn

@NickSzabo4 I'm arguing that *even* descendants of early farmers improve health by cutting carbs. Perhaps others improve even more.

@zooko Where's you're evidence for that claim? (Studies that include non-early-farmer descendants obviously aren't good evidence for it).

@NickSzabo4 I will provide some evidence. But first, I'd like to argue that the burden of proof should be in the other direction. …

@NickSzabo4 … Even absent some specific measurements or experiments on some modern strains of human, I think the default assumption …

@zooko No, it's a terrible assumption. Even simplest carb digestion genetic difference gives factor of 8 different risk of obesity.