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Getting people to hate other people, that's easy, the us vs them is baked into human psychology. Getting people to eat less, not so much.
by deeviant 5y ago
Getting people to hate other people, that's easy, the us vs them is baked into human psychology.
Getting people to eat less, not so much.
- ethanbond 5y agoPeople wanting to feel good, be more sexually appealing, sleep better, and so on? The desire to achieve higher fitness is pretty ubiquitous, but that is always up against how hard it is to achieve. There are certainly things an org like NIH could do to make it much easier. Better tools, better information, deep subsidization of healthy alternatives all come to mind. The idea that we cannot make substantial improvements to people’s decision-making context and instead should spend all this money trying to hack the genome is obviously ridiculous.
- manwe150 5y agoAre you honestly believing that fat people don’t enjoy life and food, have bad sex, and and stay awake at night worrying about it? I think you will find instead that overweight people are of typical happiness. I think someone has mislead you with false advertising, and done a better job at sharing information than the NIH could ever hope to manage.
- ethanbond 5y agoWhat a remarkable straw man argument you’ve defeated! My actual claim is that all other things held equal, people in general prefer to have higher fitness levels over lower fitness levels.
- manwe150 5y agoI think you underestimate my laziness. All else being equal, I would likely binge watch TaskMaster.
- deeviant 5y ago> The idea that we cannot make substantial improvements to people’s decision-making context and instead should spend all this money trying to hack the genome is obviously ridiculous. Except piles of cash per year ARE spend trying to change people's habits for the healthier, and it's obviously falling in the US. You're idea of, "Don't throw a pile cash at medical research, that's stupid! No, spend it on advertising, but healthy stuff!" seems like the obviously ridiculous idea.
- ethanbond 5y agoWhere did I advocate for advertising or PR campaigns? There is very little funding of behavioral science research compared to pharmacological.