What would you like to see done differently? You mentioned the more thorough self-experimentation he could have done (really should have done), but there's still someone else who could step up to the plate and do some self-testing.
Thorough studies? Those might also be done some time in the future, whether or not they're funded by Rob (not sure about this point, there might not be an incentive to do so once it's being sold).
Sure, Rob jumped the gun and hyped it up. But most of the internet is already a giant circle-jerk. Doesn't stop people from generating real information, right?
Doesn't stop people from generating real information, right?
That's the damnable thing about these sorts of biases, it's not clear to me whether one can compensate for the biases. If you pay attention to the 'real information', you may wind up learning what we might call anti-information - information that predictably and systematically makes your beliefs worse than your defaults.
This is the problem of the clever arguer: how do you, and can you, adjust for the fact that all the reports coming out about Soylent are so deeply error-prone (and now with the ...
Rob Rhinehart's food replacement Soylent now has a crowdfunding campaign.
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