[mattzito]

I understand, but from the soylent webpage:

"What if you never had to worry about food again?

For many people, on many occasions, food is a hassle, especially when trying to eat well. Suppose we had a default meal that was the nutritional equivalent of water: cheap, healthy, convenient and ubiquitous. Soylent will be personalized for different body types and customizable based on individual goals. It allows one to enjoy the health benefits of a well balanced diet with less effort and cost."

That's very different than things like Ensure, where they talk about how it's an adjunct to regular eating.

They're making the claim that food can be entirely replaced by Soylent.

[lgbr]

> They're making the claim that food can be entirely replaced by Soylent

I don't see where, in this quote, that claim is made. The claim is made that you wouldn't have to _worry_ about food. That is, for the meals where the only concern is sustenance (i.e. the only meals you actually worry about), Soylent offers a "worry-free" approach. There's meals that you eat for culture, enjoyment, or something other than sustenance, but these don't involve worry.

[dllthomas]

That reads to me as more of a vision statement, not a claim they're currently making about their product. Maybe I'm being overly charitable.

As a vision statement, it seems fine. Google hasn't yet "organized the world's information", just a lot of it - occasionally we still need to resort to other means.