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dang has a strong conflict of interest and loves playing favorites. He is not neutral. This site is not neutral. This site is a joke.
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Comment · 20 days ago
Given now bad things are, for those who don't eat too much meat, if you don't correctly supplement every single essential nutrient, and even many conditionally essential ones, you could be in a sea of trouble. Even then they won't get you sufficient phytonutrients. To make things worse, food is packaged in harmful plastics, and contains toxic pesticides, also PFAS containing pesticides.
Comment · 20 days ago
It is problematic that the ingredient label doesn't list which types of HFCS are used in the product. It could be HFCS-90 for all I know. The manufacturer could also keep shifting the formula. 90% fructose would be disastrous to one's health.

In fact a 2014 study found 60% fructose, not 55% as is expected with HFCS-55. This suggests a blending of HFCS-55 and HFCS-90 in a ratio that yields 60% fructose. This thuggery by hiding it from the label is bad for health. As a consumer, I am within reason to make the pessimistic assumption of HFCS being up to 90% fructose via HFCS-90, which for all practical intents and purposes is fructose. In any event, your claim of the product containing up to merely 55% fructose is falsified.

Fructose content in popular beverages made with and without high-fructose corn syrup (2014) doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2014.04.003.

Comment · 20 days ago
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Comment · 20 days ago
In fairness, some of those older styles could alienate a reader, whereas mid-20th century style is practically like our own. To emphasize, this is narrowly about applying the style from an era, not the English from an era.
Comment · 21 days ago
> Your body can't tell the difference.

That's not metabolically true. Fructose by definition doesn't have glucose which is present in sucrose. Metabolically, your body absolutely reacts differently.

A core issue is that isolated fructose and its derivatives, e.g. HFCS, don't sufficiently trigger satiety. In contrast, regular sugar and glucose trigger satiety. This has been known for over a decade:

- Dissociable Behavioral, Physiological and Neural Effects of Acute Glucose and Fructose Ingestion: A Pilot Study (2015) (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130280)

- Attenuated hypothalamic response to fructose via a dedicated gut-brain pathway (2026) (DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2026.05.013)

Comment · 21 days ago
I don't think you realize the prompt actually works. The word "style" does it. I guess you like clickbait too much.
Comment · 21 days ago
Neither one of the two databases you mentioned are open source. There is too much talk and nothing to see here.
Comment · 21 days ago
Why is it hard? Ask it to write professionally in mid-twentieth century style English, and without resorting to the clickbait style of writing.

In any event, other LLMs may not automatically have the problem, and don't even require such a prompt. This is a Claude problem.

Comment · 21 days ago
Comment · 21 days ago
Are you imagining an alternate reality where LLMs go away from usage? Because that doesn't make any sense. Sure, other forms of AI will come to exist, but LLMs are not going away. Moreover, progress in AI is very much expected for the time being. The personality defect in the aforesaid is real. The denial of reality is par for the course.
Comment · 21 days ago

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