Hank: people will turn away from foods engineered to hack their brains (2025)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2025-06-27) · owner: Hank
In June 2025 Hank predicted that the long-term answer to engineered junk food would be people turning away from foods built to hack their brains.
About: hyperpalatable food
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-27 | predicted | Hank thinks the long-term solution will be a turn away from foods engineered to hack our brains, toward more food-shaped foods. | You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information 00:07:08 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank says we moved from food scarcity to ultra-abundance, with companies competing to make the most delightful, engaging, cheap food: better than malnutrition, but with new problems. — 00:03:07
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank: Cheap, hyperpalatable food has left many people with unhealthy relationships with food and health problems never faced before. — 00:04:42
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank: Information sellers compete to make it hyperpalatable, which often makes it worse for you: easy to consume only what you like, lacking what the brain needs for a useful model of the world. — 00:08:07