Re:The drab stupidity of Soylent
by fnordfnordfnord on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:43AM
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Alternate title: "Shooting Ducks In A Pond - It Is So Much Easier To Snipe From The Weeds Than To Actually Create Something Valuable"
What is this guy's argument? That doctors and nutritionists had to study hard, and if none of them decided to do it then it must be a bad idea? Rhinehart's idea isn't even new, he just managed to get it in front of the right audience.
>Unfortunately, such idealism doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Maybe Rhinehart will fail. So what? It is a pretty low-risk project. I don't think anybody is going to drop dead, and if anyone does manage to hurt themselves, they will probably only do so after ignoring some warning signs. OTOH, if he is in some way successful, he will have advanced nutritional science where domain experts failed to do so.
What is this guy's argument? That doctors and nutritionists had to study hard, and if none of them decided to do it then it must be a bad idea? Rhinehart's idea isn't even new, he just managed to get it in front of the right audience.
>Unfortunately, such idealism doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Maybe Rhinehart will fail. So what? It is a pretty low-risk project. I don't think anybody is going to drop dead, and if anyone does manage to hurt themselves, they will probably only do so after ignoring some warning signs. OTOH, if he is in some way successful, he will have advanced nutritional science where domain experts failed to do so.