SoullessAutomaton comments on Akrasia and Shangri-La - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 08:53PM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 11 April 2009 12:28:16AM 5 points [-]

The first paragraph alludes to the fattening of America in the recent past. Something has changed.

It's worth noting, in the context of this whole discussion, that the increasing homogenization of Americans' eating habits because of franchise restaurants and mass-produced supermarket food is a possible change that is consistent with the theory behind the Shangri-La Diet.