androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
It’s ironic that we’re simultaneously acknowledging the downsides of plastics and promoting GLP-1 meds It’s the hubris of a materially advanced society — we can’t fathom how engineering our materials and our bodies could be bad for us Though the negatives of GLPs will likely be discovered sooner (spoiler alert: muscle loss)
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phil
@phil
at the margin, probably better to have a skinnier society and then solve for the issues that arise once we've cured obesity
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
I think this is flawed logic though Until you face the underlying problem, all you’re doing is distorting it and shaping it into something unseen What is the long term effect of a population that has eaten its own muscle mass (including cardiac muscle)? I imagine courage and the ability to tackle problems will be lacking
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phil
@phil
this feels anachronistic to me. look, at an individual level i agree with you. but societies are messy. obesity is a symptom of our food supply being fucked up. the food supply is fucked up because of incentives that are very hard to change without compromising a free market. in a perfect world we could snap our fingers but we have a coordination problem, and on the margin i'd rather continue chasing down the symptoms rather than waiting for a deus ex machina.
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androidsixteen
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Which part is anachronistic? I’m suggesting root cause analysis and solving that Consider obesity as societal “tech debt” — what you’re suggesting is what legacy software orgs do. Keep shipping patches because it’s too expensive to do a full rewrite because they lack the will It’s not always correct to rewrite code, and you need to ship. But we all know how kicking the can down the road goes
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