[ExI] The perfect steak recipe

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2015-09-22 06:21, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> So here is my perfect steak recipe: Have a medical provider puncture 
> your veins every other month to lose a pint of blood. Once they say 
> your hemoglobin level is low and stays low, a sure sign of iron 
> deficiency, go to a Texas Roadhouse, or another cheap steakhouse and 
> order a medium rare ribeye, with blue cheese crumbles. Enjoy!

Yummy!

I guess we could use this in a lot of other domains. I noted that beer 
(something I normally do not care much for) tastes amazing after a long, 
hot walk. Same thing for salty food, of course.

As a neuroscientist I would of course go for whatever 
hypothalamus/brainstem receptors detect the iron, salt, whatever 
deficiency and add something that messes with them in the amuse-bouche. 
By the time the main course comes along, we will be craving it (and not 
just because the kitchen is slow).


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University