On the deep bio-history of hacking. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/19/maybe-your-zoloft-stopped-working-because-a-liver-fluke-tried-to-turn-your-nth-great-grandmother-into-a-zombie/ …
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... "I always assumed God just hated psychiatrists and wanted them to be miserable. But another possibility is that extreme individual variability in neurosignaling pathways is a defense against parasite manipulation." -- Both are probably true.
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... "People always talk about the body as a beautiful well-oiled machine. But ..."
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... "... sometimes the body communicates with itself by messages written with radioactive ink on asbestos-laced paper, in the hopes that it’s killing itself slightly more slowly than it’s killing anyone who tries to send it fake messages."
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... "There are a few parasites that can manipulate human behavior – rabies definitely, toxoplasma maybe – but overall we are remarkably safe." -- This is almost certainly the most cordycepted statement Scott has ever made.
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you're really going to enjoy Aristillus 3 and 4
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