Just as a look into a different world, ever since I can remember I have loved eating a lot, have wished that I could do more without consequence, and I have dedicated a lot of mental energy to try to figure out ways of maximizing the amount of eating I get to do at a minimum of effort and penalty, and conversely, eating less than I want to involves a considerable about of dissatisfaction and suffering.
If I could magically eat as much as I wanted to without suffering negative consequences to my health (or getting over full), I would basically be eating constantly and it would be one of the main sources of baseline hedonism I have, the same way others listen to music, take baths, etc. Even though it would be expensive.
Projecting my mind onto others, I think this is why a lot of fad diets exist, and there’s a disproportionately large amount of low quality discourse about diet and nutrition. A lot of people want the same thing to be possible and are coping hard to believe that it could be so.
Viewed in this light, the “growing a bigger liver” thing seems like a pretty straightforward idea, although I admit that it sounds pretty grotesque from a certain perspective. (Still, though, by comparison, some people do want to grow more muscle primarily so that they can eat more (something I explicitly did the calculations for), and on the grotesque side, people have taken some pretty nasty drugs or just gotten themselves infected with tapeworms just to stay thin.)
Just as a look into a different world, ever since I can remember I have loved eating a lot, have wished that I could do more without consequence, and I have dedicated a lot of mental energy to try to figure out ways of maximizing the amount of eating I get to do at a minimum of effort and penalty, and conversely, eating less than I want to involves a considerable about of dissatisfaction and suffering.
If I could magically eat as much as I wanted to without suffering negative consequences to my health (or getting over full), I would basically be eating constantly and it would be one of the main sources of baseline hedonism I have, the same way others listen to music, take baths, etc. Even though it would be expensive.
Projecting my mind onto others, I think this is why a lot of fad diets exist, and there’s a disproportionately large amount of low quality discourse about diet and nutrition. A lot of people want the same thing to be possible and are coping hard to believe that it could be so.
Viewed in this light, the “growing a bigger liver” thing seems like a pretty straightforward idea, although I admit that it sounds pretty grotesque from a certain perspective. (Still, though, by comparison, some people do want to grow more muscle primarily so that they can eat more (something I explicitly did the calculations for), and on the grotesque side, people have taken some pretty nasty drugs or just gotten themselves infected with tapeworms just to stay thin.)