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So people who are born with a sexual desire to hurt small children, not rape but actually torture and mutilate as seen in the “hurt core” community, should be allowed to roam freely? Your opinion is an artifact of convention. How dull...

Of course people who were friends with Ted Bundy were surprised! Do you think they would be his friends otherwise? For every friend there were two people who weren’t surprised I can promise you. And yes some sociopaths are geniuses but that’s not relevant to my point at all. Most sociopaths are not able to play a rol perfectly forever. Ted bundy is a perfect example of that.

I once had the pleasure of encountering a sociopath in a social setting. He was charming and I was the only one who knew, and I knew instantly, everyone else loved him. And sure enough it was only a matter of time before the others came around one by one. If you know what to look for they are easy to spot. Extremely easy. The difference in autonomic responses alone is almost impossible to conceal.

I find it surprising sociopaths are allowed to just be free in society. They invariably are a net loss for society and certainly for anyone who is involved with them. I can’t even imagine how screwed this persons husband would be if this article were true. One way to spot a sociopath is to look at the people close to them. They almost always are a little odd or dumb. This is because smart, normal people never allow themselves to get too close to sociopaths. Somewhere along the line between acquaintance and close friend, most people get a peek under the veil and feel the cold, nauseating feeling that comes over you when you encounter pure, unnatural evil. People really don’t get it until they have some kind of experience with a sociopath. There’s nothing more creepy than getting that glimpse of their true nature, through a small crack in their facade, and seeing things that are totally outside of normal human behavior. Things you wouldn’t even think of until you saw it. The reason why nobody gets it is because it’s just too alien.

Sociopaths are dangerous. Everything in our culture and society is built around the fact, purposefully or not, that most people have basic empathy for the direct and visceral experience of seeing another person suffer. If you involve yourself with a sociopath, there are no mechanisms at play to help you. You will find yourself totally destroyed. If everyone in the world really knew what sociopaths are, they wouldn’t be allowed to roam freely. I’m astounded at how casually the subject is addressed in this thread.

So a single person decides they don’t like my comment and now it’s faded out where nobody will bother reading it. I think it’s important so I am asking for the upvotes to not dip below zero because I would like as many people to read it as possible whether they upvote or not... it was a similar comment that literally saved my life.

The idea that people are imagining this, as other commenters have put forward, is nonsense. The idea that people are just getting old and drink too much soda isn’t right either although it’s close.

The reason why people report similar or overlapping symptoms is because they all have a problem with their immune systems. Overactive immune systems tend to cause a certain set of symptoms.

The immune system is very complicated, very broad in its jurisdiction and very poorly understood. It is scientifically proven that certain chemicals (common food additives for example) cause no immune (allergic) response at all whatsoever, but cause an immune response to other chemicals. So the immune system is not just complex as a monolith but also has inputs that interact with one another, leading to a combinatoric level of complexity. When you also consider that immune function and mediation (as seen with some food additives, for example) is observed in emotional stress — something that is as close to being unquantifiable as anything could be — one can see that it might be the case that this is a disease that has evaded medical science until now.

Chronic fatigue syndrome was observed in gulf war vets and was so common among them that it was coined “gulf war syndrome.” One researcher has hypothesized that this is due to an immune response which takes the form of cell deactivation via ATP signaling which he has named “cell danger response.”

Meanwhile, it is widely appreciated that autism is not caused by destroyed neural circuits but by deactivated neural circuits. And people with autism can experience remission under certain circumstances, like having parts of their brain electrically shocked, most commonly via TMS. Cell danger response could also explain this.

This researcher, whose name is too complicated to bother spelling it, used this hypothesis to design a study in which an obscure drug that blocks ATP receptors was given to autistic children. All of the children who received this drug experienced immediate and unprecedented improvement in their symptoms, unprecedented both in the context of these patients and in the context of medical science. That was just months ago. Further studies are coming.

https://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/

The gulf war vets were all exposed to chemicals, stress and a heavy regimen of crazy vaccines designed to make them immune to biological warfare agents, if I remember correctly.

As I have pointed out, immune inputs influence one another. The combination of stress, chemicals and vaccines likely caused gulf war syndrome, even though politically this begins to ruffle feathers.

There has been no study so far that has looked for a connection between this wholistic idea of immune dysfunction and autism. That is to say, there are no studies looking at the combination of stress, chemicals and vaccines and autism. There have been no studies looking for a connection between the former and a collection of disorders that might include autism. Further, there have been no purely randomized studies looking for a connection between vaccines and autism. But as I have shown, even if there were, it might still miss the connection because the connection is not between vaccines and autism, it is between many immune system inputs and many possible adverse outcomes. And that is not even to consider the fact that autism might have multiple, totally separate and distinct causes besides immune dysfunction, which again none of the current studies look for. The issue is not settled and people who bark at me when I bring this up are stymying science...

Obviously, even if what I claim is true then it would still be in the best interest of society to administer vaccines. Please do not lose your composure.

Until very recently I had absolutely no inclination to believe that chronic fatigue was real or that there might be some sliver of truth to the vaccine thing. But then I was stricken by an immune problem myself, which is a huge story, but coincidentally I found that the ketogenic diet completely cured me which, because my illness fell into an established and unambiguous field of medicine, was totally inexplicable. So I went down the rabbit hole which led me to see that the ketogenic diet is extremely potent anti inflammatory, is useful for curing many other things, and that there is a medical revolution in the pipes regarding inflammation and metabolics, the implications of which I am not sure anyone is ready to reconcile with.

https://youtu.be/06e-PwhmSq8

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Mast cells are immune cells that contain many different kinds of molecules, one of which is the famous “histamine.” These cells release these molecules in response to immune signals. Their chemicals are not understood. It is scientifically proven that (in mice I think) wounds cannot heal without mast cells present. This shows you how broad their function is, and opens even wider the possibility of very complicated and unintuitive problems resulting from their dysfunction. Mast cells are present in the heart, the emotional centers of the brain and many other places. You will notice that many long haulers report tachycardia, depression and anxiety.

They state very bluntly that MS is an autoimmune disease... when did this become clear to mainstream science? I believe it is though, and I also believe that remyelination is always occurring but hampered in MS and even regular people. Taking away the inflammatory signal will result in remyelination without any stem cells in my opinion.

What happened to hacker news?

So this is it! Bethesda is officially dead. ESO was the early prognosis and 76 was the death rattle. This is the funeral.

Morrowind was a masterpiece of a game. Oblivion was amazing. Skyrim was quite special and carried the genre forward but left behind important bits from morrowind. The job of making the spiritual successor to oblivion and morrowind is now officially open to anyone because Bethesda will never do it.

Reading the comments it struck me: why is tele operated agricultural robots not a thing? A robot with wheels and an array of cameras and arms. It rolls down the line and remote workers pick the fruit. Maybe even out of country workers being paid pennies...I’m sure the latency could be overcome. You could host thousands of humans with very few robots. Better productivity, lower cost in the long run and you’re resilient against labor problems which is really good when all your labor is illegal. If nobody gives a good reason why it doesn’t exist I would be receptive to people who might want to do a start up...

Googling around I find some recent stuff. It seems to have started being on people’s minds in the past five years only. A lot of complicated articulated arms and inputs. I am only more convinced that there is arbitrage here... a very simple articulation mechanism, something akin to what hello robot did vs willow garage, would be totally new. And you don’t have to replicate perfectly the performance of humans because it’s a sliding scale, you could use the robot to downsize at first, following it with a small human team.

California barely has any foot left to shoot.

There should be a paper floating out there about DOI, which is actually the most potent anti inflamatory, more so than Lsd. He has other papers too. Sorry I’m on my phone.

All of the popular psychedelics are extremely potent anti inflammatories, even at sub-psychoactive doses. And the effect lasts for months. And inflammation touches almost every modern illness... so it is a magic bullet. They also cure cluster headaches and migraines and people who suffer from those would certainly call it a magic bullet. Should we be testing every possible application to see what sticks? Yes.

Ok so I looked it up and it appears that this concept of very thin and light electrodes is basically taking off right now with multiple implementations. In this context, Neuralink is basically competing against other products for a share of the neuro-implant market, which will be big at some point. Why doesn’t your comment mention any of this? Or the relative merits of each competitor? It’s not clear that neuralink was the first or the last to do any of this. Why should their effort to find an electrode material that prevents loss of signal be minimized? Shouldn’t they be encouraged to find a solution like the other people trying to find a solution in academia?

And I know you won’t answer this because nobody ever answers questions that aren’t inflammatory or insulting... but how could information not be encoded in the brain? When you dream, your brain could not possibly be generating the raw sensory signals... the only way to explain lucid dreams is heavy encoding of information and a really powerful guessing system to fill in gaps where signal decoding was weak or didn’t happen.

Actually every comment section out there is riddled with this question and it is directly addressed in the video. Perhaps you should watch it...

It’s routine for labs to insert threads into brains? It’s routine for non-rigid, fine threads to be inserted via robot? I’m just being honest, your comment is not very convincing. And it skims over important details like the fact that all electrode solutions before were not sub-dermal.

What an idiot. This has all the hallmarks of being wrong. It’s highly emotional. Lacks specific details. Best of all, it reveals a total lack of understanding of what is going on, which might have something to do with the fact that he freely admits he doesnt even bother to watch things all the way through because it’s... embarrassing? Pegging Elon as some fool with lots of money, the biggest indicator that this guy is just another academic idiot.

I just checked this guy out. He made yet another comment on tc about how musk is just another Theranos (obviously wrong, go watch the next booster landing if you disagree) and how his own device was much better, but couldn’t reach production because of evil venture capital culture, which musk is a part of. He really emphasized that his device was much better. Looking at the patents he filed, it was a sub-dermal drug delivery device with some electrodes to sense. So nothing to do with neuralink, not better than it in any way except maybe one could argue that the much simpler and practical device would be of more benefit overall in the short term. This guy is a liar on record as I have just shown. Academia is filled with these kinds of people. Loud mouths who are good at squawking the loudest to get grant money and brown nose all the necessary people to move upwards. Typical academia in 2020...

I’m not sure how this is possible... I posted the link before your linked post was created... and my post was a dupe of the following post which is also older than your linked post...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24308944

I guess I just somehow missed it?

This has 200 comments while the unveiling of the first working prototype of neuralink got a grand total of 15 upvotes. Hackernews has officially flatlined.

Wow, you beat me by only a few minutes. At least I get the first comment. In any case, this is momentous. It’s amazing to me how little attention neuralink gets — it’s subreddit is pathetically small. This company/product will be the most important company/product ever conceived of. People don’t understand that they are witnessing the birth of something bigger even than the domestic computer. It will ultimately be considered the start of a new stage of evolution rather than something that changed how we live.

The initial products treating various low-hanging fruit neurological injuries/diseases, or that connect motor cortex to peripherals, will not even begin to touch the potential of these devices, even rudimentary ones.

All you have to do is extend some of those threads into the deep brain and it’s game over — the world will forever be changed into something totally different. It will change what we are fundamentally, and we still haven’t touched the potential of the device.

The brain is always guessing. Your consciousness occupies a simulation of the world that is hosted inside one part of your brain. Sensory data is translated into primitives, sort of like video game assets, that are re-used and conform to repeating patterns in the environment — abstractions. Be it an object, a person, there is a neural representation of it stored in the brain. Sensory data is taken in by parts of your brain that translate the data into the presence or absence of these abstractions. If something is detected, it is inserted into the simulation and you experience it. This simulation is all you ever experience. Not all sensory data is translated directly into an abstraction. The end result of sensory data translation is a sparse data set — a simulation that only has a few things present within it. As an optimization, the brain then looks at the abstractions that are present in the simulation and then guesses what might be in the parts of the simulation that were not populated by the sensory translation hardware. The guess is placed into the simulation as an abstraction, the same as if it were based on sensory input. The key here is that the brain guesses way more and way more accurately than anyone appreciates. There’s no way to tell since all abstractions are equally real in your experience. Most of the things you experience are guesses... what do you get when you take away sensory input from that system? You get a dream. Dreams are not poor simulations, they are astonishingly good guessing.

When we figure out how to interface with these abstractions, naturally it will be totally insane. Imagine augmenting your senses so that there is no guessing at all, every abstraction is put there deliberately and is totally accurate to the real world. It is a way of experiencing the world that cannot be described in words other than saying it would be totally unlike anything before. Things will be possible like simply knowing where things are, even if they are behind you or out of view. It gets to the level where it’s like trying to describe an lsd trip...

And the use of abstractions is not limited to the physical world. We will discover the neural whereabouts of many useful abstractions... it will be trivial to augment ones ability in almost anything, like math or chess or counter-strike or empathy or almost anything else one could imagine, all in a way that is totally seamless, new intuitions — indistinguishable from natural ability.

And that’s just the obvious stuff. Enjoy yourself for now. The world as we know it has officially ended. You’ll all think back to this comment soon. It will be sooner than you prefer. I guarantee it.

But you’re missing the reality of the situation. Hypothetically cable is better and cheaper but in reality it isn’t because of corruption and the fact that cable has to occupy a physical space which forced the involvement of governments which makes everything terrible. Starlink will finally provide good competition to these bastards in rural areas... im in Des Moines metro area where cable sucks for no reason. I can’t wait.

It’s not legit at all. I’ve always been a fan, and all his busted videos in the past featured one very important feature: the violation of thermodynamics. He always showed why a product was physically impossible. But he doesn’t do that with a hyperloop. And ultimately, if you see through the repetition and downright nastiness, you see that his argument is essentially “hyperloop is very expensive, it would be unsafe and render artists don’t know science.” I wouldn’t have minded if he hadn’t taken that low shot at Elon when a rocket blew up on the pad. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he started targeting Elon, with the sudden and notable lack of violation-of-physics, around the same time he started pushing his channel to have more engagement and make more money.

TLDR: I’ve seen all his videos and his hyperloop videos basically lack substance. Scott Manley is a much better source of opinions on such things.

This guy theorized that autism is caused by a problem with ATP and mitochondria. He did a trial of an old, obscure drug that blocks ATP receptors (for signaling, not metabolism) on young ASD patients and there was noticeable improvement in their symptoms. More studies are underway.

http://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/science-item/autism-research/

What are they even talking about? People can just casually decrypt https now? Isn’t the whole point of https that something like this can’t happen?

What a great article. It points out that the horrifying diseases of that time were rationalized as being bad luck or divine retribution. People didn’t have any particular desire to get to the bottom of it. Germ theory earned its advocates public lampooning. The things is that it’s exactly the same today. I was reading about how Botox injections have been observed to reduce depression. Doctors claimed that it was because of a feedback loop between frowning muscles and mood. Modern, certified doctors grasped onto this theory with white knuckles, that “frowny face bad.” It’s unbelievable. Obviously follow up studies showed the the location of the injection makes no difference in the anti-depressive effect. It just blows my mind. They always create a theory that does one thing: terminates the line of inquiry. Yes, it’s frowning so there’s nothing more to be seen or done with this. I think subconsciously, it is too emotionally upsetting for them to have to basically go back to the drawing board, rewrite a bunch of basic biology and medicine. There is some kind of mental block there. And just think that thousands and thousands of things like this are around — clues being ignored that could literally save people’s lives and prevent unimaginable suffering. I had psychosis and keto cured it. My doctors literally ignored me when I told them. I asked, should this be looked into? Shouldn’t you be raising the alarm about this weird thing? Shouldn’t we see if it works in other people? No no no... always talking in circles without ever addressing what I’ve said. Science will vindicate me eventually... but in the meantime a whole lot of people will suffer needlessly.

You seem personally offended but I believe this is a good reason. We ban all kinds of things. So you think we shouldn’t ban guns? You think we shouldn’t ban any kind of speech, including doxxing and death threats? You think we shouldn’t ban cancerous chemicals? This is mental gymnastics at the Olympic level. Of course we ban things sometimes.

Banning a widespread intelligence gathering and opinion shaping tool of the Chinese government is completely reasonable.

If country X believes that Facebook is being used as an intelligence or opinion-shaping tool by the United States government then country X would be justified in trying to do something about it, in my opinion. And the loss of Facebook and it’s toxic effect on its users wouldn’t make me lose any sleep if I was a citizen in country X. And I think this is probably true. I know in Myanmar Facebook is insanely popular and I personally knew people very high up in the government who used Facebook and their whole family did as well. I’m confident that Facebook could use their records to effect almost any kind of change imaginable in Myanmar. Their access is mind blowing. Maybe I’m being a bit hyperbolic but the point gets across.

From first principles reasoning, this is a good idea. We don’t ban Chinese websites, books or products. Although we tax their products more now. Apps aren’t like physical commodities. They can be used to gather data, quite invasively, shape and form public opinion in a new and more visceral way, as well as take advantage of exploits. Admittedly websites can do that too, but the scale of adoption of Tiktok makes this a special case. Just by sheer numbers, many important people will be using tiktok, or their families, colleagues and friends. If you ever complained about Russian election meddling, then you are a hypocrite if you don’t support this. What if tiktok was Russia’s? I think some people are getting lost in the politics.

The facts: we gain almost nothing by having tiktok around. We lose nothing by banning it, and gain a little bit of buffer against possible threats like election meddling, data mining for nefarious purposes and other things. Completely leaving politics aside, I basically support this.