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.
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.
Yep. And it's a very similar dynamic with algorithms getting into our brains' pleasure centers and hitting all the buttons.
It'll be like Wall-E. But for our minds as well as our bodies.
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!
Thanks for this beautiful post; again !!! 👍👍👍 🔥🔥🔥
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