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No, the name is directly referencing the movie. It's a tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, much in the spirit of programming culture.
by luhn 9y ago
No, the name is directly referencing the movie. It's a tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, much in the spirit of programming culture.
- jcheng 9y agoIt's not, it's referencing the book that the (apparently very different) movie is loosely inspired by. https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201541809-Why-is-it-named-Soylent- https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201541809-Why-is-i...
- dragonwriter 9y agoGiven that Soylent in the book is an apparently commercially successful product that rides the wave of a Malthusian catastrophe, it's still an odd choice (or a revealing Freudian slip) given their early hype about solving world hunger.
- rdiddly 9y agoI wonder how many of its customers are too young to appreciate the reference or the irony. To them Soylent means one thing - this product. It'd be tricky to find out though, without spilling the beans. Kind of a quantum question in that way.