I do have experience with trying to manage unsolvable food problems with low investable stamina and it being a huge burden to take on even one more constraint, while others are going "Oh why not be vegetarian!"
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I think people don't complain enough about being pregnant for cultural reasons, so it's hard to know how bad it usually is & how bad it can get if you're not close to someone who is both pregnant & complainy. But it's *very bad*, it's just that at the end they give you a baby.
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Maybe I'm just the type who's always trading the present away against the future, but I find it really hard to imagine that you're saying one should straight-up trade months of one experience for years of the other. I keep thinking you must be accounting for a discount factor.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @luminousalicorn and
Like, "Well, of course I'd figure out fake sweeteners for ice cream if that was the only thing I needed to do and it would certainly make my baby completely non-fat, but that's not the situation here" which I could nod along to.
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If it was just ice cream? Sure, probably. First pregnancy I managed to be paranoid about raw fish and unpasteurized cheese the whole time. I learned to home-pasteurize eggs! But it's not just ice cream.
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Replying to @luminousalicorn @ESYudkowsky and
A while back I thought I wanted a taste of spouse's milkshake while we were out to eat and it suddenly tasted VERY IMPORTANT. It feels *scary* to ignore a thing that tastes VERY IMPORTANT. What if it *really is* VERY IMPORTANT?
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Aside: My heuristic is to pay more attention to those feelings when they apply to relatively more natural foods, like "I want chicken!" or "I want avocado!" or "I want an orange!" and be more suspicious when it's "I want an artificially sweetened protein cookie!"
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @luminousalicorn and
But yeah, if I was pregnant and it suddenly felt incredibly important to me to have a swallow of milkshake, I'd probably do that in case it was incredibly important. Then I'd hire
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @C4C_Recruiting and
Oh, I didn't stop at a swallow, I stole half of spouse's and then ordered my own and was finally done after I'd had like 20 oz. If it really was VERY IMPORTANT then I'm covered.
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Replying to @luminousalicorn @ESYudkowsky and
Still need to read the study but I think I could restrict sugar while pregnant. The nausea is real — I had a lot of milkshakes because they were all I could eat (and just going without food makes the nausea worse, not better) but I could easily switch to homemade w/ fake sugar.
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There’s also Better Living Through Chemistry in the form of nausea meds.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ESYudkowsky and
Thalidomide was a nausea med, do we have ones we're sure of now?
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Replying to @luminousalicorn @s_r_constantin and
I assume you know about b6 + unisom because I won't shut up about it?
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