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Given a list of options of ways to achieve a goal, prefer the one which would have been most natural to a human throughout the last 100,000 years except for the
by SnowHill9902 4y ago
Given a list of options of ways to achieve a goal, prefer the one which would have been most natural to a human throughout the last 100,000 years except for the last 100.
Need to eat 3,000 kcal? Beef and vegetables would be more natural than a Big Mac. Need to go somewhere 3 km away? Waking or jogging would be more natural than cycling or using the car.
- californical 4y agoNeed medicine? Try bloodletting! In all seriousness though, it’s good to keep in mind human history and what’s natural, but unless you’re walking around barefoot on dirt paths, fasting for days at a time, and drinking unfiltered water from mountain streams, it seems kinda silly to arbitrarily draw the line there. There are plenty of modern things that work really well for humans, that may not have been natural 10,000 years ago
- SnowHill9902 4y agoThe paleo argument is not absolute, of course. It’s just a guideline for deciding. Drinking filtered water is a quantitative improvement over drinking stream water. Cycling is qualitatively different than walking.