Although acknowledging that there are some similarities between the Singularity and the Rapture (i.e., millenarianism, transcendence), Singularitarians counter that the differences are crucial (i.e., rationalism, naturalism, uncertainty of outcome, human-caused event, nature of the event contingent on human action, no insider privilege, no religious trappings, no revenge against non-believers, no anthropomorphism, evidence-based justification for belief).

Brian was talking Atkins. The key I think is not to eat carbs, carbs cause an insulin spike, and an increased uptake of nutrients. So theoretically you might be able to consume 3000 calories fat heavy and only absorb 2000. You starve your body of carbs and your body does not efficiently absorb calories.

Fat still has 8.5-9 calories per gram. It is not a rumor that eating a high calorie diet leads to fat (amount absorbed greater than amount burned off).

I strongly disagree with Brian. That said I don’t disagree with Atkins.

I slightly agree with Brian in so far as I think a 2000 calorie diet made up of say Olive Oil (close to pure fat, will cause you gain less weight than an equal amount of calories consumed as refined sugar.) 17 tbsp of olive oil about 2000 calories.

One thing that is cheating about this is that carbs bind to water, so you get more water retention eating the carbs…(if the metric is weight)

But if you eat 250 grams of sugar that is also 2000 calories. But the sugar will cause an insulin spike, and increased absorbsion.

But the increased absorbsion from the insulin spike short term, would not be enough to offset the caloric content of fat vs. carbs on a gram by gram basis.

You will get fat faster on a 250g fat diet vs. a 250g carb diet. But you won’t get as fat as the calories would suggest you would (measured on a scale), for one thing because the loss of carbs will decrease water retension, for another thing because the calories in the olive oil in a carb starved system will not be properly/fully absorbed.

In terms of survival if one person has a bottle of olive oil and the other has a 5lb bag of sugar they should share with each other, and to get the most of the calories they should always eat sugar about 3-4 minutes in advance of consuming the olive oil. In this way the body will absorb the 8.5-9 calories from per/g fat.

Is that a more legalistic version of Peter Lawler?