There are no strict rules at all :-). I strongly encourage that food brought to share with the group be paleo-friendly, but you can do whatever, and certainly you can eat whatever you want yourself.
OK, I was feeling very conflicted on this, until I realized this might just be an inferential distance thing. I tried to clarify my confusion....and realized:
I am not sure why the encouragement to bring paleo-diet exists. Do you assume most people attending would keep to paleo-diet? (That’s not my model, but perhaps I’m wrong) Do you want to encourage people to try paleo-diet? If so, is it because you assume most people haven’t tried it, and would subscribe if they tried it?
I’m sorry to be a pain about this...but I think we should be, at the very least, able to discuss snacks at a less wrong meet-up in a rational way :)
I guess the level of encouragement for paleo-food seemed to be more insistent than would be typical for a personal preference. Also, possibly it’s a case of a Typical Mind Fallacy, but no, it’s hard for me to consider the possibility that people actually like paleo food. But thanks for explaining :)
[My usual rule when telling people to bring food is: “Bring something you like. This way everybody has at least one thing they like.”]
When we were trying to sort out what dinners we could eat at the London meet in March, I thought of my blatantly faddy diet as specifically my problem, and that there was literally a single thing on the menu that I could have was not something it would have been reasonable to try to make into others’ problems. (Though I did get whiny about my self-inflicted angst. And the one thing- the chicken salad—was actually really nice and much better than the quality of food I’ve come to expect from that pub chain.)
There are no strict rules at all :-). I strongly encourage that food brought to share with the group be paleo-friendly, but you can do whatever, and certainly you can eat whatever you want yourself.
OK, I was feeling very conflicted on this, until I realized this might just be an inferential distance thing. I tried to clarify my confusion....and realized: I am not sure why the encouragement to bring paleo-diet exists. Do you assume most people attending would keep to paleo-diet? (That’s not my model, but perhaps I’m wrong) Do you want to encourage people to try paleo-diet? If so, is it because you assume most people haven’t tried it, and would subscribe if they tried it?
I’m sorry to be a pain about this...but I think we should be, at the very least, able to discuss snacks at a less wrong meet-up in a rational way :)
Did you consider the possibility that I liked paleo food better and wanted it at the meetup for that reason :-).
I guess the level of encouragement for paleo-food seemed to be more insistent than would be typical for a personal preference. Also, possibly it’s a case of a Typical Mind Fallacy, but no, it’s hard for me to consider the possibility that people actually like paleo food. But thanks for explaining :) [My usual rule when telling people to bring food is: “Bring something you like. This way everybody has at least one thing they like.”]
When we were trying to sort out what dinners we could eat at the London meet in March, I thought of my blatantly faddy diet as specifically my problem, and that there was literally a single thing on the menu that I could have was not something it would have been reasonable to try to make into others’ problems. (Though I did get whiny about my self-inflicted angst. And the one thing- the chicken salad—was actually really nice and much better than the quality of food I’ve come to expect from that pub chain.)