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kelavaster··on ChatGPT can't output certain names, anyone has any idea why this happens?
I searched "Jonathan zittrain right to be forgotten" on a hunch. Guess he's actually a professor who published a book, "right to be forgotten".. It's a shame that US companies censor models based on EU rules.
kelavaster··on A dozen eggs and a dozen bullets: Ammunition hits US grocery stores
Walmart always sold ammunition!
kelavaster··on The Anti-Autism Manifesto
...and then the author talks about his autistic son.
kelavaster··on Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with Chinese police
They work with US police too...
kelavaster··on 4 in 5 Americans think 'words can be violence'
Assault is nonviolent affront, compared to battery which is violent.
kelavaster··on How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
Journaling just enhances sleeplessness about serious urgent issues...
kelavaster··on Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free
have you seen some of the nasty non-organic pesticides in use? Organic isn't meaningless.
kelavaster··on A Surprising Window into the Growing Pains of Older Adults
Most men are ignored my lazy family and dignity spouses who turn out to be abusive because of their own familial loneliness. People whose families show consistent concern for them are far from most.
kelavaster··on Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes
Fans
kelavaster··on What went wrong with autism research? Let's start with lab mice
Most autism researchers are rampantly biased in their discrimination against autistic people. It's a national crisis.
kelavaster··on UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay
Homeless due to not having roommates like college students.. Too bad that he though he was in a higher caste of profession...
kelavaster··on Why Google search is falling apart [video]
They're all doing proprietary work for LLMs.

The question is how you can be useful enough to the public without being so useful a LLM maker will snap you up

kelavaster··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Do a reality check that leas-frequent cannabis consumption with your target activity and intake levels doesn't also lead to weight gain .....
kelavaster··on The Illusion of Moral Decline
Moral decline is mediated epigeetically through 5ht3 receptors. It takes vile, bigoted, disgusting rulemakers to ignore people with different 5ht3 receptor activity..
kelavaster··on Nursing Homes Overuse 'Chemical Restraints' on Dementia Patients
Patients are underresourced to conduct citizens' arrests on criminal nursing home providers. Often badly discriminated against by bigoted law enforcement.

Second Amendment's Rights activists and snti-racketeering judges need to crack down networks of crooks who defraud disabled adults by chemically assaulting and medically tricking them.

kelavaster··on New study casts doubt on loneliness as a cause of many diseases
The hacks who created this study don't seem to realize that rodopsin/purple family receptors mediate light hypersensitivity as well as sexual activity.
kelavaster··on Israeli Spies Penetrated Hizbollah
Really makes you wonder how much Israel learned about Hamas's attack against Israel and abetted for political gains...
kelavaster··on FDA Approves Drug with New Mechanism of Action for Treatment of Schizophrenia
It's effectively a partial agonist with different subreceptor affinities.
kelavaster··on FDA Approves Drug with New Mechanism of Action for Treatment of Schizophrenia
It's interesting that "The M3 muscarinic receptor regulates fear and learning.." and "M3-muscarinic receptor knockout mice show a deficit in fear conditioning learning and memory".

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0914801107

"We demonstrate here that M3-muscarinic receptor knockout mice show a deficit in fear conditioning learning and memory."

It's interesting the Mucinex antagonizes the M3 receptor. Behavioral effects of Mucinex are very understudied.

M3 receptors also classically handle lung "learning" and response to allergens. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8441331/ - "Muscarinic receptor subtypes in airways"

kelavaster··on Why do obesity drugs seem to treat so many other ailments?
Guggul, a GLP-1 agonist via farnesoid receptor X antagonism, has been used as an Ayurvedic broad-spectrum cure for millennia. It's part of triphala too..
kelavaster··on "World-first" indoor vertical farm to produce 4M pounds of berries a year
Good application of indoor farming. Strawberries are labor or capital intensive to harvest. Hard on workers and hard on fields. Leave the fields for crops that need more space and microbiome.
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Bogus title. This is advertisement.
kelavaster··on Demographer's work debunking regions of exceptional lifespan wins Ig Nobel Prize
Why did he get an ig nobel prize for catching fraud..
kelavaster··on Random Endangered Animal Generator – Discover and Learn About At-Risk Species
This should turn into Extinctthob from Oryx and Crake
kelavaster··on The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
And check out The Obesity Code by the same author