<div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/27 Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asa@nada.kth.se">asa@nada.kth.se</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There are other reasons too. Take the Atkins diet: if more people follow<br>
it, it becomes easier to follow for you too - more food is prepared that<br>
fits it, you don't get excluded as being weird etc. Diets with more<br>
ideological baggage will of course want to spread more loudly. But I think<br>
there is signalling even with the on the surface most utilitarian food<br>
fads. I vividly remember the flamewars I have seen over which weight-loss<br>
diet was best: people invest a lot of emotion and identity into their<br>
diet. And once your diet reflects your self image, then you are likely to<br>
want to promote it a bit.<br></blockquote></div><br>Not to mention the social angle, as when you whisper in the ear of your date: "Well, you know, be it as it may, carbohydrates are not really good for predators...". ;-)<br>
<br>Being carnivorous by now is even sexier than Anne Rice's vampires.<br><br>More seriously, I think that after all dietary ideologies have something to do with transhumanism. See under "biological self-determination & overcoming".<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>