Are you really gone claim that this is not a good post:
Thesis: Intellectuals are naturally attracted to poop because it is causally downstream of everything and so ends up having unusually high mutual information with everything, despite not causally influencing much (compared to e.g. food).
Issue with judging the practitioners is that practicing it may be correlated with other things that are much more harmful. Like all the talk about how single parenthood is supposedly bad for you, but then it doesn't hold up to more careful scrutiny afaik.
Pathogenic bacteria aren't actually optimized to kill you, because they need to exploit you. The pathogenic element occurs in order to get you to spread the bacterion to other hosts.
Are you really gone claim that this is not a good post:
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