The study [0] finds that because mongooses don't know which offspring belong to which moms, all the pups are given equal access to food and care - brilliant example of ignorance promoting fairness in a mammal society.
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Regardless of what the official statement is, the most obvious reason for this move has to be because weight loss is an area that is riddled with misleading claims and scams, thus it makes for bad user experience.
When I find myself caught deep in the struggle of trying to change my own mind, I sometimes end up feeling totally blocked and frustrated. It may sound absurd and counterintuitive, but I find that backing away from that struggle frees my mind to then naturally start seeing a more wholistic view of things and resolve such feelings.
Go easy on yourself and remember such resolutions can take time.
Start working on solving it yourself. Publish your findings. Be open to feedback and critique. People who are interested in working on similar problems or have something to share will find you.
Having said that, I agree that we perhaps may need a platform for something like this, since solving problems in my opinion is all about points of view and options. An open platform with simple rules that lets everyone participate in solving all kinds of problems will be a huge step for mankind even if only less than 1% of all proposed solutions make sense.
Some more thoughts on the subject.
Problems have a property of converging into patterns of similar types across different domains. I wonder what kind of solutions may emerge, if some of our unsolved problems[0] were dumbed down into simpler stories/relations (everyday metaphors) and then be openly made available for anyone to take a shot at.
But, building such a platform is going to be nearly impossible because that very desire is top-down in nature. Even if something like it does accidentally emerge and come to exist, will we act thoughtfully and utilise it like we should? [1]
Good luck!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems
And also 'Instant Zen' by Foyan (136 pages).
But I'm good with Firefox + uBlock Origin.
[0] https://math.hawaii.edu/home/pdf/putnam/PolyaHowToSolveIt.pd...
Also ideas can seem fascinating by themselves but only chasing ideas (without validation/trials) is an obsession you don't want to have. Please remember to strike a healthy balance between generating ideas and executing them. That infamous claypot anecdote from Art & Fear by David Bayles on quantity vs. quality comes to mind.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/technique-producing-ideas-simple-form...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJ3oy-rWUk
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
[4] https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Short-Cheerful-John-Cleese...
Academic circles often consist of some of the most close-minded people, with extremely rigid and archaic notions of things like how students ought to behave or think, what kind of questions they must ask etc.
I think this needs to be clarified to a large section of reddit and hn members more than any place else on the internet.