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0 pointswolvesechoes3d ago0 comments

> To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient

Life is not an optimization problem.

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However, had we not tried optimising, Malthus would be right and we'd all be dead.

So let's hear it for optimisation.

No, but staying alive is, and food is for staying alive.

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0 pointswolvesechoes3d ago0 comments

> To be fair, growing your own food is incredibly inefficient

Life is not an optimization problem.

However, had we not tried optimising, Malthus would be right and we'd all be dead.

So let's hear it for optimisation.

No, but staying alive is, and food is for staying alive.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse