There is way too much serendipity — LessWrong

As we all know, sugar is sweet and so are the $30B in yearly revenue from the artificial sweetener industry. …

x There is way too much serendipity — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2024 Biology Progress Studies Chemistry Nutrition World Modeling Curated 401 There is way too much serendipity by Malmesbury 19th Jan 2024 8 min read 59 401 Crossposted from substack . As we all know, sugar is sweet and so are the $30B in yearly revenue from the artificial sweetener industry. Four billion years of evolution endowed our brains with a simple, straightforward mechanism to make sure we occasionally get an energy refuel so we can continue the foraging a little longer, and of course we are completely ignoring the inst

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