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  • Oct 4, 2026, 11:15 AM

    Thinking about this a bit more, I think there's a worthwhile analogy that helps here? I have been personally annoyed in the past, sometimes, by people who try to go gluten free despite not having a health problem. If your body *can* tolerate wheat, it can be a pretty load-bearing part of a healthy diet! People have been eating bread for millennia. If you avoid it for no reason, that can actually be *less* healthy, and it's frustrating to see people use it as a token for smugness, like when I was growing up and people operated on different levels of strictness re Ellen G. White's Health Message.

    But in the end, the massive demand for gluten-free products, however individually misguided, made life a lot easier for people like me, with actual medical sensitivities. The posers are probably why I can buy Schar loaves at a normal grocery store at non-excruciating prices.

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  • Oct 4, 2026, 11:41 AM

    @arichtman Well I mean, in my perfect fantasy world, we all reject LLMs and LLM-made products with extreme prejudice, but I'm not expecting that from the general public.

    Rather, I'm saying that regardless of where an individual person stands on their own personal tolerance level, they probably benefit from the existence of a zero-tolerance crowd making sure an LLM-free life is possible and practical. As a concrete example, I don't think anyone is enjoying all the Linux CVEs lately. So the fact that people are showing fresh interest in making various BSDs into viable alternatives, is probably a corner cut effect that benefits everybody.

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