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The human body isn't a machine. It is a more complex thing that includes many machines. There are so many features of the human body that we can not examine a
by diydsp 13y ago
The human body isn't a machine. It is a more complex thing that includes many machines. There are so many features of the human body that we can not examine and that we don't even know where to look...
The real question is "Soylent is perfectly optimized... for what?" Soylent may be optimized for "meeting the models of nutrition that we have." Yet, those models may be like using an FAQ to run a nuclear reactor. I'm not trying to fear-monger. I think Soylent is a great experiment. I wish I had to guts to carry out the reporter's month-long experiment.
- lowboy 13y agoYup, agreed. I never meant to imply that it was a simple machine. I too see Soylent as an experiment, and a possible way to push our models of nutrition forward.
- VLM 13y ago"like using an FAQ to run a nuclear reactor." That sounds like a winning long term strategy if the opposition makes decisions solely to maximize short term profit. Don't overestimate the opposition. Bad money pushes out good.