On: GLP-1 may slow biological aging

[flexagoon → 233mhz]

Since when is it bad to create technology that gives people an easier way to solve their problems and live a better life?

[233mhz → flexagoon]

Since we're selling them the disease and the cure, and society has to pay for both

What about all the other way to solve the problems and improve their lives? It's like people who think you cure depression by lifelong antidepressant treatment...

[chneu → flexagoon]

When people don't bother learning basic skills.

Our society is fixated on reducing friction or increasing convenience. We trade away a lot of our capabilities for this.

Making things easier for everyone often has negative associations.

[inglor_cz → 233mhz]

It is also harder to write paper letters by hand than e-mails on a keyboard.

Guess what we all here are doing. Using the magic keyboard.

[shermantanktop → inglor_cz]

Not me, my HN posts are all done by candlelight with a quill on parchment.

[inglor_cz → shermantanktop]

Finally a True Scribe.