Agreed. Until I'm more confident that we've successfully learned all we need to learn, and reverse-engineered all we need to reverse-engineer -- and figured out

Agreed. Until I'm more confident that we've successfully learned all we need to learn, and reverse-engineered all we need to reverse-engineer -- and figured out which corners we can cut, and which we can't -- I'll take the whole foods wager when/if I can afford to. All of that said, I am not a Vitalist. I am pretty sure biology is reducible, and that it can be reverse-engineered -- eventually. I just don't think we're sufficiently there yet. In the meantime, I begrudge no one their choices, either way. And I applaud the Soylent team for its efforts. We should be doing more to reverse-engineer nature, so that we can get better at it. The best way to solve the problem is to keep trying and learning.