Nick Szabo  🔑

@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.

@zooko Generic study shows at best that a diet saves slightly > than it kills, in pop studied. Almost no info on if will kill you or me.

@NickSzabo4 I don't know what you mean by this. Can you give me an example of such a study?

@zooko Practically all modern diet studies are examples of such fallacious generalization.