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The difference between an eating disorder and a Silicon Valley fad is that people die of eating disorders quite routinely (look at anorexia or bulimia mortality
by gwern 8y ago
The difference between an eating disorder and a Silicon Valley fad is that people die of eating disorders quite routinely (look at anorexia or bulimia mortality rate estimates). How often do tech bros die from eating Soylent or keto for a few months?
- microwavecamera 8y agoWe'll know in the next 20 years or so. I think the underlying point the author is trying to make is that both compulsions stem from a negative psychological compulsion. Instead of the compulsion being driven by appearance and negative self-perception the compulsion is driven by the fear of mortality.
- gwern 8y agoAnorexia and bulimia - real eating disorders - don't take 20 years to kill. And the bad faith of OP is exemplified by the original version of this nasty little point-scoring BS where she claimed to diagnose Dorsey as starving himself to death by looking at a list of foods he ate once a day and assuming he was getting <2k calories a day (she had apparently never heard of intermittent fasting).