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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 22 May 2013 08:58:07PM 3 points [-]

unless there's a reason why Soylent isn't in that reference class.

All of the other diets involve food?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 May 2013 01:18:50AM 0 points [-]

Yep.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 24 May 2013 07:29:41AM 4 points [-]

Have you not come across "meal replacement diet" (which may be partial or total) until now? There is a bunch of articles about it in Google Scholars, not to mention the popular media.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 May 2013 08:49:51AM -1 points [-]

The meal replacements I've seen look a lot more like regular food than Soylent does.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 25 May 2013 09:33:59AM 4 points [-]

I don't understand. Soylent contains maltodextrin, oat powder, whey protein from milk, olive oil, various vitamins and minerals, whereas, Slim-Fast, for example, contains milk, milk protein concentrate, sugar, maltodextrin, canola oil, various vitamins and minerals, etc. How is one more like regular food than the other?

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