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Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture our diminishing attention spans.
Everything has to be distilled down to ~200 char chunks that can be understood on their own as well as within the wider context.
Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture our diminishing attention spans.
I am a fan of Carroll Quigley's style of writing (Georgetown University professor and ole Slick-Willie's mentor). I find having DeepSeek restate articles in his style to be much more enjoyably ingestible.
> alcohol spending fell 85% You've replaced one drug with another. Freud would be proud. > If you told someone in 1850 that air conditioning would reshape the global economy, they'd think you were crazy. This is incredibly misinformed. You've lived /with/ refrigeration and /without/ malaria for so long you have no Earthly idea how people in the opposite state lived their lives or saw the world around them. > We're di…
"you replaced this drug with hundreds of known downsides with one that has none"
Nice nonargument for the rest of your post. It's somehow misinformed to state the fact that the southern manufacturing industry simply cannot exist before air conditioning
Frankly your attitude is evil and you are a proponent of evil.
The article posits that 80% of the top income quintile will be on this medication. I have to ask, why? (I'm not in the US, I should add). Like, sure, is the average American overweight? Yes. Are 80% of the top 20% of earners? Seems pretty doubtful, plenty of the rich look to be in reasonable shape. That statistic suggests that 80% of successful people have such poor impulse control that they end up seriously overweig…
I would feel like an absolute failure if I need medicine to help create willpower. EDIT: under the assumption of an average person who is not under any medical condition that may result in lack of willpower
Is GLP-1 really changing general impulse control? But I do buy the argument. If impulse controlling drugs are going to be effective, the economic impact is basically not quantifiable... not only the economic impact but it would change society as a whole in extremely fundamental ways (e.g. dating)
So this drug would mess with my head – am I understanding it right?
I'm from the country of Ozempic and Wegovy and neither Novo Nordisk nor our media have been portraying these drugs as general purpose anti-addiction drugs. However there have been some international studies that reveal that it might actually be. Can Novo Nordisk extend their patent of their existing drug if they find new applications for the drug? Some of Silicon Valley's excess productivity over the rest of the worl…
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> Yes well your PCP / pharmacist should not have prescribed you an appetite suppressant when you have below average body fat %. Why do you think this? I agree that people who have associated risk factors should be prioritized, but if there's enough for everyone why wouldn't we give it to anyone who wants it?
People who don't need to be chronically medicated should not be. There are always side effects, and we don't even know for sure what the long term risks of these medications are yet. And crowing about saving $200/mo not buying food at Starbucks, well now Novo Nordisk is getting that. Toast a bagel at home for $0.50/day instead.
I do not agree that people who don't "need" to be chronically medicated should not be. I think you can decide to take whatever you want for your own reasons. I am not going to tell you what you can and and can't take - unless you're like...taking something that makes you destructive or generate externalities or whatever. But this seems like the opposite?
Lots of questions here around profit and the awful medical system in the US, but on a basic level I think people should be able to do what they prefer and is safe.