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New comment by minifridge in "Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults"

minifridge — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:04:40 +0000

While the causative effects are not straightforward to prove, LLMs definitely have addictive qualities... This will definitely have some negative effects to people with certain predespositons.. Also, LLMs tend to isolate more people - many health professionals will confirm that isolation is going to be detrimental for people for mental health.

So the skeptiscism in the comments about the findings is a bit puzzling.

New comment by minifridge in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

minifridge — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:05:05 +0000

How AI will cure neurodegenerative diseases and cancer?

New comment by minifridge in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

minifridge — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:18:13 +0000

Some plastic silicone straps with the heavier overall weight make it a worse experience that traditional watches

New comment by minifridge in "Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI"

minifridge — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:37:44 +0000

I could not tell from the article whether the use of LLMs was allowed in the peer review. My guess would that it was not since this is unpublished research.

In general, what bothers me the most is the lack of transparency from researchers that use LLMs. Like, give me the text and explicitly mention that you used LLM for it. Even better, if one links the prompt history.

The lack of transparency causes greater damage than the using LLM for generating text. Otherwise, we will keep chasing the perfect AI detector which to me seems to be pointless.

New comment by minifridge in "Nobody cares"

minifridge — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:50:50 +0000

I think it is the direction of the situation, rather than the state of things, that is concerning. The general direction is that everyone is incentivized and rewarded to look after their bottom line and personal gain and then everything else.

IMO, not caring about the wider impact of our actions is something that will keep happening at an increasing rate.

New comment by minifridge in "Can a biologist fix a radio? What I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf]"

minifridge — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:05:18 +0000

Biological systems have also designs that emerged through evolution. Although the complexity may seem at different scales, the main difference is the measurements you can do. Both biological and electrical circuits are dynamic systems that have designs that gives them emergent functional properties.

As the article describes imagine having the list of radio components instead only instead of their topology (wiring diagram). The problem of figuring out how a radio works with this information, if youbknow little about their design, becomes quite similar with how figuring out how a biological system works.

The absence of a design diagram and our inability to measure components at the molecular level without disturbing the state of a system is the main reason bilogical systems are so challenging to understand.

New comment by minifridge in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

minifridge — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:15:28 +0000

If something causes cancer in mice, the curent consensus is that it is deemed unsafe for humans.

New comment by minifridge in "New research says blue zones can be explained by comically flawed data"

minifridge — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:31:27 +0000

It is definitely a bit fishy.

I am sure there are other places with bad record keeping which were not included in the study to deflate the pvalues of book keeping.

New comment by minifridge in "GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)"

minifridge — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:19:00 +0000

> I go to a bookshop, take a book off the shelf and start reading it, I am not infringing any copyright.

That's a false analogy. It is more like going to the bookshop and taking a photo of every page of the book.

Even so, if you use this content in any shape or form the source should be cited regardless of book ownership.

New comment by minifridge in "Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in human breast milk"

minifridge — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:30:41 +0000

Immunity does not mean mRNA molecules diffused across the body. The mRNAs are supposed to be translated and degrated yielding the antigen protein. This antigens cause inflammation at the area of injection and in theory only the protein antigen will be circulated by the immune cells to generate immunity.

New comment by minifridge in "Emacs on an iPad"

minifridge — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:21:13 +0000

Title is misleading. Emacs is on a VPS not running natively on ipad

New comment by minifridge in "Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice"

minifridge — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 14:18:45 +0000

Wrong, this info I posted is innacurate

New comment by minifridge in "A gentler, better way to change minds"

minifridge — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:12:57 +0000

I am trying to assess whether philosophers not changing their minds is something that is desirable or not. On one hand, they represent their theses after long periods of introspection and studying. On the other hand, their virtue signaling propensity may relate to various ego ambitions.

Definitely, debate for the shake of debate feels like an excercise for the philosopher rather than identifying why different views exist and where these fall short. In the long term, it may lead to change of the philosopher. Given everybody keeps an open mind, I don't think that this is necessary a bad thing.

New comment by minifridge in "Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice"

minifridge — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:12:34 +0000

ISRIB has toxic effects on the liver, afaik from presentations i have seen. So yeah, unlikely it is going to pass any clinical trial

New comment by minifridge in "Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study"

minifridge — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:40:46 +0000

Skimming through the article, it fails to mention that journals have some power to assess systematic reviewer biases based on their past history. If reviewers are systematically more permissive towards specific people's work, then good science is not their objective.

So, essentially it can be viewed as a diversity problem in the reviewer space. The journals have important responsibility on this and they can not present as neutral observers of this phenomenon where they say : "oh every peer reviewing model has problems " and blame reviewers ethos that they are choosing.

New comment by minifridge in "I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit"

minifridge — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:31:01 +0000

A pgtk build of emacs is what I have been using for quite some time without any significant problems (native Wayland build)

https://github.com/masm11/emacs

Pretty sure there are builds for the browsers you mentioned that run natively on wayland