TIL that when you burn fat the majority of waste products are exhaled as CO2 🤔

Adding this to the list of things i thought i knew about the human body but really didn’t. The systems complexity in biology is insane. There is so much we don’t know. I mean just look at the immune system, that alone is more advanced than any piece of software i’ve even seen.

I think ai researchers will be the ones that start making large advances in this field. There is just too much going on and too much data. Anthropic ceo (claude, etc) suspects AIs will be doing phd level research by 2027…

This is going to be an interesting century.

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Studied biology and yes, it is amazing indeed! 👍🏼

Conversely: have you ever seen how much can grow with mostly co2 and water?

* a plant

the thing that blows my mind is how each system, while complex,

is also simple in the way unix os simple, but on steroids. and each system overlaps into the next, seamlessly 🤯

and that same integration spiral is seen in nature at the micro, and the macro.

I can't say that about neuroscience or endocrinology. There's a lot of "code reuse" that really shouldn't have been reused, and a lot of "memory accesses" that really shouldn't be allowed.

Bones, and their maintainence and remodelling, though, that is just poetry. Natural selection does good work if it has time to iterate through a hundred million generations.

I just saw a headline that AI progress is stalling and they can’t make it much more useful

Also this

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The people building state of the art models don’t seem to think so:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000676542285

Need to listen 🎧

Its long but good

Weight loss will be outlawed by 2030 under the guise of climate laws prohibiting CO2 production 🌍

lol

Egg whites have all 23 branch amino acids the brain needs to function. Your body can also completely digest egg whites. Plausibly you could get one hour of physical exercise a day and eat only egg whites, And stop pooping. A completely efficient human.

Truth. Best-absorbed protein there is. Caesin in dairy milk is next, at 99%.

Know that when you exercise, you are greening the Earth and fertilizing plants with human produced co2. This is a yuge positive.