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People sit 12+ hours per day (work, commute, at home) and eat processed foods. Living literally the opposite lifestyle from the one our bodies are made for. N

People sit 12+ hours per day (work, commute, at home) and eat processed foods. Living literally the opposite lifestyle from the one our bodies are made for. Not a surprise.

Aachen 3y ago
Our bodies were made for Africa afaik, and for outrunning prey across long distances using the revolutionary sweating method, and for having children at 14 years old. Anyone who isn't doing this can be argued to be unnatural. I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word. By this logic, we shouldn't be taking any mode of transportation because we didn't evolve to sail, drive, or fly. Heck, we shouldn't be writing on the Internet, let alone writing at all! Wouldn't it make more sense to argue the point itself, e.g. our bodies don't deal well with X because of Y, rather than citing historic evolutionary pressures?
- ifyoubuildit 3y ago
  > I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word. Just because you can use your impact driver as a hammer doesn't mean its going to last if you use it like one. It doesn't seem contradictory to acknowledge that you can do all sorts of things, but some of those things are going to have varying levels of consequences. There is a sense of optimism that I see in people that everything new is good. I had that same optimism for a long time. But so did people who were using leaded gas and xrays for fitting shoes. Now I reflexively don't trust anything that doesn't have a long history of successful usage.

People sit 12+ hours per day (work, commute, at home) and eat processed foods. Living literally the opposite lifestyle from the one our bodies are made for. Not a surprise.

Aachen 3y ago

Our bodies were made for Africa afaik, and for outrunning prey across long distances using the revolutionary sweating method, and for having children at 14 years old. Anyone who isn't doing this can be argued to be unnatural. I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word. By this logic, we shouldn't be taking any mode of transportation because we didn't evolve to sail, drive, or fly. Heck, we shouldn't be writing on the Internet, let alone writing at all! Wouldn't it make more sense to argue the point itself, e.g. our bodies don't deal well with X because of Y, rather than citing historic evolutionary pressures?

ifyoubuildit 3y ago
> I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word. Just because you can use your impact driver as a hammer doesn't mean its going to last if you use it like one. It doesn't seem contradictory to acknowledge that you can do all sorts of things, but some of those things are going to have varying levels of consequences. There is a sense of optimism that I see in people that everything new is good. I had that same optimism for a long time. But so did people who were using leaded gas and xrays for fitting shoes. Now I reflexively don't trust anything that doesn't have a long history of successful usage.