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The more that I think about it, the more that I like the idea. It could actually be a relatively amusing cliff notes on various facets of rationality, a kind of who's who to the memes around here (e.x. "Luminosity Bella consults her notes on how she liked what she had last week, seeing what kind of impact her introduction of cougar blood is having").
Or it could just be like one of those angry essays Eliezer does sometimes, with such lines as "and they just THROW THE BUTTER ONTO THEIR POTATOES like it's a friend of the family", in which case healthy eating would be a metaphor for cyronics.
Butter's a friend of my family.
This would probably be exactly the kind of thing that would be being opposed -- i.e. that we have deep sentimental attachments to things like butter, partly due to their nature as superstimuli (although as superstimuli go, butter is pretty mild). And even if butter feels like a friend of the family, a sentimental attachment is probably not paying a ton of rent.
Eh, a sentimental attachment doesn't necessarily have to be irrational or untested. My attachment to butter thoroughly pays rent every time it correctly predicts that butter is delicious.
And awesome.
You'd better just stay away from the bacon subreddit.