Hack your brain to make eating healthily effortless. Hack your body to make exercise effortless.
You’re thinking pretty small there, if you’re in a position to hack your body that way.
Yet these are actual ideas someone suggested in a recent comment. In fact, that was what inspired this rant, but it grew beyond what would be appropriate to dump on the individual.
I think you’re seeing shadows of your own ideas there.
Perhaps the voice I wrote that in was unclear, but I no more desire the things I wrote of than you do. Yet that is what I see people wishing for, time and again, right up to wanting actual wireheading.
Scott Alexander wrote a cautionary tale of a device that someone would wear in their ear, that would always tell them the best thing for them to do, and was always right. The first thing it tells them is “don’t listen to me”, but (spoiler) if they do, it doesn’t end well for them.
Yet these are actual ideas someone suggested in a recent comment. In fact, that was what inspired this rant, but it grew beyond what would be appropriate to dump on the individual.
Perhaps the voice I wrote that in was unclear, but I no more desire the things I wrote of than you do. Yet that is what I see people wishing for, time and again, right up to wanting actual wireheading.
Scott Alexander wrote a cautionary tale of a device that someone would wear in their ear, that would always tell them the best thing for them to do, and was always right. The first thing it tells them is “don’t listen to me”, but (spoiler) if they do, it doesn’t end well for them.