The Effects of Sugar on Weight Loss

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If you have like any kind of complicated curve that's smooth, if you zoom in far enough, it just looks like a line. So basically, on the margin, if you're talking about just making small changes, it's like really is okay to think of it as just good or bad. It's just where when you were talking about making larger changes, that's where that model starts to break down and we have to be more nuanced.

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Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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