See that's why I think it's basically just a marketing term. Calling coffee a 'biohacking tool' is just as meaningless as calling kale a 'superfood' - both terms are usually only used when someone is trying to sell you something
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And then you have the obvious issue of computer nerds trying to do medicine, with stuff like "take hormones+SSRIs+cocaine but at a low dose it's good for you" the insane result
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Replying to @GidMK
Before I was a writer I was in bioinformatics, and let me tell you there are SO MANY computer nerds who assume at first that biology is as logical as computers and thus fixing bugs/creating features is just a matter of throwing time and energy at a problem.
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Replying to @BethSkw
I wonder if the tech world would think fixing every non-computer problem was so easy if it wasn't composed of ~70% white men
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I suspect there would be more attention to ethics, but (if we're talking computer nerds) still just as much interest in oversimplification.
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Replying to @BethSkw
Lol yeh probably. I just find it fascinating that tech nerds are so amazingly confident that somehow looking at everything as a system will magically fix every problem. As if no one else thought of that and it's a totally new idea
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Replying to @GidMK
The industry often revolves around worshipping genius. Again, probably something diversity would mitigate, but they always believe "somebody who is smart enough could understand and fix this"
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Replying to @BethSkw
It's funny, because the tale of the gullible genius is so well-covered you'd think that people would've realized being clever doesn't make you good at everything by now
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Replying to @GidMK
"I won't get tricked like those OTHER gullible geniuses!"
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Yeh it's a sad story. I'm wrong all the time, you just have to realize no one's perfect and move on
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