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New comment by declan_roberts in "Grok's Traffic Is Mostly Driven by Adult Content"

declan_roberts — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:24:02 +0000

I highly doubt these figures. Grok is tightly integrated into twitter (sorry X.com) which had over 600 million DAU in 2025 and is probably much higher now. My guess is most of Grok's usage is actually "internal" and related to x.com.

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:41:55 +0000

Websites like Finnrick provide testing for gray market research peptides (including tirzepatide and retatrutide). There are no direct links to shops, etc., but you can at least see the current state of things, both good and bad.

Cremieux is a popular biohacker on Twitter who has a paid Substack describing the process.

That's enough to get anyone started.

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:52:07 +0000

Did it still plateau on the highest dose?

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:50:45 +0000

I can say the things I like, I like the same or even more (higher sex drive is one noted example). I can sit and program for hours now without thinking about other things. I assume this is what people who took Ritalin felt.

I do notice it makes it harder for me to get up and do certain harder, outdoor chores.

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:47:28 +0000

Some downsides:

1. They make you stop eating, which for most of human history kills you.

2. They are a life-long treatment and kind of expensive unless you go gray market.

3. Gastrointestinal issues especially when titrating up.

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:43:41 +0000

GRAY market is way undercounted in peptide use. Go to the gym and there's like 25% of the people there taking gray market peptides (some for weight, some for injury repair, etc)

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:42:29 +0000

I have to exercise and go to the gym for life already?

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:41:30 +0000

Gray market peptides are excellent. You can do you own independent lab testing, buy with a group who's testing, or buy from a reputable vendor who pre-tests before sales.

Even after all that it comes down to like $50 a month at the highest dose.

New comment by declan_roberts in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

declan_roberts — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:38:47 +0000

It's not just anecdotes. Eli Lilly is actively in trials with a glp-1 peptide brenipatide for treatment for certain kinds of addictions, such as alcohol, smoking and opioid addictions.

New comment by declan_roberts in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

declan_roberts — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:19:27 +0000

Nobody forced anthropic to go on a media blitz loudly proclaiming the dangers their new AI model. Serves them right honestly.

New comment by declan_roberts in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

declan_roberts — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:17:37 +0000

Access to everything every American company feeds into the AI is well worth it to the CCP.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

declan_roberts — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:38:04 +0000

I was getting a fat raise every year. I didn't think I needed it from a first principle.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

declan_roberts — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:52:25 +0000

Between AI and H1b, it might be too late.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

declan_roberts — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:51:50 +0000

I've been mostly resistant to unionization for my whole career, but I think now is the right time. Between AI and H1B, the pool of jobs available for engineers is getting smaller and smaller, especially at the low end.

When you destroy the entry level position, you also destroy the pipeline that creates senior engineers, a shortage of which is used as leverage to increase H1B in America.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

declan_roberts — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:45:55 +0000

It's true. We're getting the worst possible outcome. Police state surveillance that tolerates nearly every level of criminality. Anarcho-tyranny.

New comment by declan_roberts in "Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center"

declan_roberts — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:05:32 +0000

Even corporate ESG policies bend the knee to cheap Texas energy!

New comment by declan_roberts in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

declan_roberts — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:57:39 +0000

I built a new computer with lots of RAM and a nice NVMe drive about a year ago, and I feel like I hit the jackpot with timing.

But just like a low-interest rate mortgage, I'm going to be stuck with this thing for a long time, it seems.

New comment by declan_roberts in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

declan_roberts — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:55:01 +0000

Census data is extremely powerful. It's why some states lost house seats and why some gained house seats.

It must therefore be maximally transparent. Do you want president Trump or palantir to decide on the "noise infusion" algorithm?

New comment by declan_roberts in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

declan_roberts — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:11:21 +0000

You and I like Claude because it's the best for coding but the normies love chatGPT. ChatGPT has a huge market target.

New comment by declan_roberts in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

declan_roberts — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:18:32 +0000

Cult members regularly seek out negative sentiment for the cult. Makes sense.