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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Food is so interesting because, today, it's designed to be addictively tasteful. We joke about Cheetos being dusted with Cocaine but it's not far off and that addiction is where they get into your brain. Literally hijacking ancient evolutionary traits to sell marginally nutritious calories.

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Andrew Perlot's avatar

Yep. And it's a very similar dynamic with algorithms getting into our brains' pleasure centers and hitting all the buttons.

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Jabberwocky's avatar

It'll be like Wall-E. But for our minds as well as our bodies.

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Andrew Perlot's avatar

Yep. I always viewed Wall-E as a bit prophetic.

But hey, at least the captain gets out of the chair in the finale. Maybe there's hope for us yet!

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Thanks for this beautiful post; again !!! 👍👍👍 🔥🔥🔥

Psychology and chemistry are both double-edged swords ...

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