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micromacrofootlast Saturday at 11:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

yeah evolutionarily we gained all this power to survive, now that we've got that figured out the drive to survive has been turned in its head

now we need to figure out a way to survive our survival instincts in the world of abundance and safety we have created

imo we have to conquer our own biology because we are too amped up as a species to choose temperance


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agumonkeyyesterday at 12:40 AM

i don't know much but 90% of medical advice is basically, drop modern life on a regular basis (walk, stay outside, hug, lift, touch, eat raw, eat few)..

it would be weird if the complex biosphere environment that made our ancestor struggle was also a key balancer that we can't replace

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kingkawnlast Saturday at 11:31 PM

Nothing has been conquered. Technology is providing a behavioral selection process that is effectively self-culling the populace and is going to make the mass adaptation to the next century of climate change much more bearable for all

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