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Technology ruins everything it touches doesn't it? I was recently thinking about this Ozempic fad and how it will lead to no one being overweight but just be d
by saturn8601 2y ago
Technology ruins everything it touches doesn't it?
I was recently thinking about this Ozempic fad and how it will lead to no one being overweight but just be dependant on Ozempic...until food producers that made everyone fat in the first place with their processed junk will produce Ozempic resistant foods...and then we are really in a world of hurt.
- bowsamic 2y agoNo, there are many things technology has improved, not ruined
- saturn8601 2y agoOf course I don't have a tally on how much things it has improved vs not improved but there are many things I can think of which are considered good but also resulted in bad: (social media providing connection while causing depression, cars providing freedom of movement vs pollution etc.) so its probably not something that can be truly decided one way or the other.
- okal 2y agoWhat incentive do they have to make Ozempic resistant food? Ozempic resistance seems like an odd thing to optimize for. Or are you suggesting it will happen accidentally?
- choeger 2y agoOzempic reduces appetite, right? So food producers cannot be happy about it.
- N0b8ez 2y agoI love the idea of the comic villainy of someone who deliberately chooses to organize a team to find ways to circumvent Ozempic in order to keep their buyers unhealthy and addicted. Could such a schemer have an internal monologue, and what would it consist of? What do they see when they look into a mirror? Their experience of reality must be utterly fascinating and alien.
- Sander_Marechal 2y agoJust ask an MBA focused on short term profit.
- lucianbr 2y agoRead the blog post that this blog post talks about - the one that says "we use AI to spam people, isn't it great?". It will be something like that. As long as there is money to be made, the internal monologue is just "hope this works and I get more money". > What do they see when they look into a mirror? A person deserving of riches, that is about to get them. Nobody sees themselves as the villain. Well, maybe some, but vanishingly few.
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, see the tobacco industry.
- immibis 2y agoThey already did this pre-Ozempic - a lot of foods are optimized to keep you eating, and that's why there's an obesity crisis. Low nutrients, high sugar and fat. In the post-Ozempic world there will surely still be things that trigger the continued appetite of Ozempic users. Especially with the FDA having just been neutered.
- DonHopkins 2y agoRead Philip K Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" (or see the movie). They're forcing overweight people in Ozempic rehab to farm the ingredients to make more Ozempic!
- mooreds 2y agoHere's an Odd Lots podcast on that exact topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-how-the-food-industry-is-preparing-for-a/id1056200096?i=1000658427155 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-how-the-food-i... Title: "This Is How the Food Industry Is Preparing For a Post-Ozempic World"
- pseudalopex 2y agoIs there a summary?
- mooreds 2y agoNot that I'm aware of, but I'm not a bloomberg subscriber.
- saturn8601 2y agoMan I was just talking hypothetical, now that they are doing something its even worse! :(