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New comment by ablyveiled in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

ablyveiled — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:43:55 +0000

Viagra increases the effect of nitric oxide, which is bad stuff when it gets into cytochrome complex iv in the mitochondria (IIRC). I would personally suspect based on that, that its effects on brain health would be negative in spite of blood flow.

New comment by ablyveiled in "My techno-optimism"

ablyveiled — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:51:15 +0000

And I say in turn, it's a skill issue if your "website" or "app" could be made by a GPT in a few minutes. Is what you're doing actually valuable, then? It consistently fails to solve my problems.

New comment by ablyveiled in "My techno-optimism"

ablyveiled — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:31:54 +0000

While I can appreciate reasoning about AGI as a purely abstract thing (I loved Nick Bostrom's book, Superintelligence), it seems out-of-touch to believe it's at all likely to happen. Do these people even use GPT-4? Do they connect the dots of its capital to the dots of its performance, and see how we're already hitting a huge wall? All while losing MSFT cash and routinely failing to do even basic tasks?

I can't help but feel like I'm being marketed to. I've grown to completely distrust anything in this vein, since the reality of the system I see before me is so drastically inferior to how people appear to be reasoning about it. It's not like how a Model-T car differs from a modern one in safety, power steering, and so on -- it feels like an error of categories.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers"

ablyveiled — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:30:01 +0000

I wonder if internet access and instant-entry is /necessarily/ a distraction or impediment to deep thought, or it could be stomached to the effect of great productivity with an especially sharpened mind.

It saddens me that the most accessible repositories of information are those that, allegedly, dumb me down.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Smart riot gun refuses to fire if aimed at someone's head"

ablyveiled — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:59:10 +0000

Print out .pngs of heads and plaster them all over your body. Riot cop defeated.

New comment by ablyveiled in "U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021"

ablyveiled — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:16:23 +0000

Counterpoint: Try munching on some pure cane sugar. Observe that it is not very addictive at all.

New comment by ablyveiled in "U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021"

ablyveiled — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:12:57 +0000

Yes, this is what I put forward at the end.

New comment by ablyveiled in "U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021"

ablyveiled — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:45:07 +0000

Added sugar is not necessarily problematic, but consumption of anti-thyroid substances like high amounts of PUFA (especially seed oils), chlorine, bromine, fluoride (in absence of iodine) can make it so, by way of increasing energy supply which is not properly consumed. Industrial pollutants like PFAS and hexane byproducts also play a role.

There's a very good reason why sugar is so "addictive" -- it's good for you! It's an obscenely easily digestible source of energy, whose products are used very easily by the cells. In the case of fructose, its consumption is relatively more insulin-friendly than the glucose-heavy starches. Sucrose is half glucose and half fructose.

Seriously "addictive" sugary foods are psychologically problematic usually for other reasons. Pure cane sugar is not very addictive when consumed alone. Try it.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

ablyveiled — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:39:46 +0000

Graduating from college in December, looking for an entry-level job. Interested in Backend and Systems. I consider myself self-motivated and a quick learner.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Soon to be back in New Haven county, Connecticut.

Remote: Yes, and strongly preferred.

Willing to relocate: Leaning against, I would like to stay near family. I would need a very good reason to relocate.

Technologies: Linux (for hosting, as a daily driver), NixOS, Docker, Python (incl. FastAPI, Flask, Django), C/C++, SQL. Also have experience in Rust, Java, mild Web frontend.

Résumé/CV: https://leonid.belyaev.systems (especially, click on resume)

Email: belyaev.l@northeastern.edu

New comment by ablyveiled in "Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?"

ablyveiled — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 23:11:50 +0000

This was the message I got with alcohol. Over a glass of wine, hey, don't drink, like ever. For what it's worth, I followed the advice.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web"

ablyveiled — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:13:45 +0000

I think it's just poor value for money and time. One should focus instead on ways of eliminating the brain energetics disorder to obtain true freedom.

It's like being sober versus being attached at the hip to Narcotics Anonymous. Sure, it helps people, but it's much better, if possible, to not even need it.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web"

ablyveiled — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:09:27 +0000

In the interest of brevity, here's a good summary video of Peat's nutritional ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb2F8xLQMvw

New comment by ablyveiled in "Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web"

ablyveiled — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:39:17 +0000

>Where does this come from?

The book "Mind and Tissue" by Ray Peat, available on LibGen (and amazon, for $200 used).

>Are drugs like Adderall or Ritalin sufficient based on this view?

From the text,

> the observation that drugs which stimulate the sympathetic or adrenergic nerves (ephedrine or caffeine, for example) will relieve the symptoms,

So yes, stimulant drugs can treat ADHD insofar as they cause a greater supply of energy to be delivered the frontal lobes. Needless to say that stimulants wear you out over time though. A more sustainable solution is to optimize for brain/body bioenergetics generally. You can read more on his website, raypeat.com.

I'm not a shill, the man is dead, I just think this information is far too important not to share vigorously. It's how I resolved my lifelong depression nearly effortlessly.

The somewhat higher rate of mental illness among higher-IQ people (according to some studies), to me, also points to an insufficiency of brain energy as the principal cause. A more energy-hungry brain will fail more readily under an even slightly faulty energy supply.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web"

ablyveiled — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:33:29 +0000

The same.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Bard, can you make an ASCII picture of a brain?"

ablyveiled — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:30:39 +0000

You are aware RLHF tends to make models dumber, though, right?

New comment by ablyveiled in "Career advice for young system programmers"

ablyveiled — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:37:24 +0000

It makes sense given that systems programming is more in the realm of cathedrals like Universities, whose whole M.O. to begin with is having you do free work, underpaid work, or even pay to do work

New comment by ablyveiled in "$HOME, not so sweet $HOME"

ablyveiled — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:51:18 +0000

Seeing as I cannot control all the software I have on my computers, I just gave up. Everything in $HOME that I care about is in ~/my. $HOME itself is anarchic, and that's okay with me. I have better things to do than micromanage this.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues"

ablyveiled — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:13:28 +0000

I am personally skeptical of the role of omega-3 and omega-6 in dementia, at least, one should never take these as supplements. It is a medical fact that they are highly unstable and basically worthless after only a day or so on the shelf, if not harmful.

One should only look to studies of genetically identical populations (you should be able to find one about nigerians in america) that acquire dementia at a high rate to observe that something about our capitalistically engineered environments is principally to blame.

raypeat.com

New comment by ablyveiled in "Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues"

ablyveiled — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:09:07 +0000

It's all a google away.

New comment by ablyveiled in "Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues"

ablyveiled — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:36:50 +0000

My unprofessional opinion is that these are both explained by a third variable, excessive consumption of carbohydrates, starches especially. (It also explains the correlation between poor dental health and dementia).

Myopia is known to be promoted by excessive carbohydrate consumption.