Soylent Month Three
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Soylent Month Three
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#2At the risk of stating the obvious - this is all good and the experiment he's running is very interesting, but - no. I really like eating tasty food. Not for the nutrients, but for the experience. Similarly to how I really like sleeping in a comfortable bed and taking a hot shower daily even though, technically, I can rest as well on a bare floor and shower once a week.
To each his own, but some things are just too unorthodox.
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#3> No one in the United States plows fields or hammers steel.
Wow. Talk about being disconnected from reality.
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#4"If people had more self-control obesity would take care of itself."
Obesity might be partly genetic.
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#5> No one in the United States plows fields or hammers steel. Wow. Talk about being disconnected from reality.
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#6> No one in the United States plows fields or hammers steel. Wow. Talk about being disconnected from reality.
Next sentence is "it has all been automated", so clearly he means "not directly".
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#7My son and I watched Star Wars a New Hope this weekend and when that exact scene hit I thought of Soylent. Spooky!
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#8At the risk of stating the obvious - this is all good and the experiment he's running is very interesting, but - no. I really like eating tasty food. Not for the nutrients, but for the experience. Similarly to how I really like sleeping in a comfortable bed and taking a hot shower daily even though, technically, I can rest as well on a bare floor and shower once a week. To each his own, but some things are just too u…
I don't think that's a fair comparison. What if sleeping on the floor and not showering made you think better and your body healthier? It's not simply a privation technique, he seems to be doing it to hack his body for better performance. Although kind of anecdotal evidence, the article mentions several mood and energy changes when not on the soylent diet (I think those things could just as likely be a change in environment/routine though).
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#9I get lost in my work/play quite a bit and often forget about meals. I'd definitely be interested in trying soylent simply as a meal replacement, especially if ingestion/preparation of it is quick enough not to break my workflow.
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#10> No one in the United States plows fields or hammers steel. Wow. Talk about being disconnected from reality.
The implicit "by hand" was pretty obvious to me, fwiw. I don't think that assertion is disconnected from reality at all.