Dave Baszucki: belief

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…Now, as you know, a lot of your philanthropic work, along with your wife, your family, it has to do with mental health issues. Do you think there’s today a mental health crisis amongst American teenagers, or it’s more or less at a normal level? I’ll put it in maybe the reference frame of what we work on. What we work on is mental health related to metabolic health, and the concept that, in addition to all of the other ways we work to combat a wide range of things, bipolar, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and one could go on, in addition to drugs and medicines and therapies, the actual balance of the food one eats, the protein, carb, fat ratio, has a surprisingly large impact on many, many people. Our own family history was my son got hit with really bad bipolar, went to the hospital several times. The story, I think, that millions of parents get hit with—many, many medications, many, many doctors. Being told by many doctors, “Yes, you’re just going to have to be on five medications continuously for the rest of your life.” What happened in our family, after years of research, is we ran into someone who was able to treat their bipolar with what is called a keto diet. A ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carb diet. For my son, that is the one thing that brought him some relief and some remission. There’s a lot of really interesting evolutionary and historic rationale for this. Keto means burning fat rather than glucose. Potentially up until 10,000 years ago in the agricultural revolution, that’s how a lot of us were operating. One could say with the agricultural revolution, more carbs in our diet, and then arguably over the last 100 years, more sugars and corn syrup in our diet. The diet itself that we’re eating is very different and could be contributing to mental health problems for many people. I would comment that I am concerned about the diet that many people eat. We fund a lot of research to really double-blind, full official survey so we can start publishing this. Do you worry about a scenario where, say, three-quarters of the players on Roblox are AI bots or agents, and the humans get disillusioned with the system because they want to play against other humans? Is that a fear you have, or you think it’s fine if there’s AI bots being a significant portion of the players, or you think you have a way to stop it?…

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