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derektanktoday at 1:39 AM1 replyview on HN

I think this is a great analogy, but it’s not exactly an optimistic one. We haven’t really done a great job managing hyper palatable food up until this point tbh. The best solution we’ve found involves paying hundreds of dollars a month for a pharmaceutical that helps the people most at risk to the harms of hyper palatable food manage their cravings for it. I hope we find a better alternative for the people that get addicted to hyper palatable socializing, but maybe individual cognitive tinkering is the best tool we have.


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intendedtoday at 9:34 AM

And we came up with this after DECADES of increasing life style illness, obesity related illnesses and mortality and a plethora of other issues.