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akira250110/12/20241 replyview on HN

Are chemical interventions designed with the best outcomes for the patient or the best outcomes for society? I suspect it's the latter. It's cheap and if you're lucky it's effective. When it goes bad it can ruin lives and families. As a _default_ it's a moral weakness.

Is this a solvable problem? Yes, but it's monumental, encompassing everything from the way we structure our civil society and work life from the forms of food and entertainment that we incidentally or directly subsidize.

We accidentally built something gross. It moves really fast, though.


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kelseyfrog10/12/2024

Just some notes. This would be a lot easy to take this seriously if it wasn't seeped in moral purity. It is rhetorically unappetizing.

Re-wording it so that you say your end goal was better outcomes for people and restructuring society to achieve that is a noble goal. It's easier for people to want to agree with than being a moral policeman.