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New comment by trehalose in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

trehalose — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:46:29 +0000

Arguing about who's the largest group of traumatized children and which groups are less significant trivializes all childhood trauma.

New comment by trehalose in "'It's like having a dumb friend': Young San Franciscans hate AI"

trehalose — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:33:45 +0000

Don't these kids believe they're protesting the destruction of the job market? Isn't that an understandable belief, given that AI company CEOs have publicly predicted they'll make it happen?

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

trehalose — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:52:51 +0000

Connotations are by far the biggest difference between these two substances.

New comment by trehalose in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

trehalose — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:28:08 +0000

Nearly every person you have shared CIRS info with was formally diagnosed with CIRS by a doctor? Or were you the one diagnosing them?

New comment by trehalose in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

trehalose — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:32:31 +0000

Some nonzero percentage of these people could have been helped cheaper and more easily earlier on to prevent them from getting to this point in the first place.

New comment by trehalose in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

trehalose — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:43:42 +0000

> They got to have their say. Editorial published, made international news. I imagine all the conference attendees read it if they cared. Seems like a non-issue.

If it's such a non-issue, why should they have been forcefully ejected from the premises over it? And why do you feel so strongly that they should have been?

New comment by trehalose in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

trehalose — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:22:27 +0000

It probably could have been, but how likely is that compared to with the AI agent? I'd assume (and I'm ready to look like an idiot if I'm wrong) that the humans are trained to send the verification code to the email address on file, rather than any address the client asks them to. I'd certainly assume most of them are more afraid of the consequences than the AI is.

New comment by trehalose in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

trehalose — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:02:50 +0000

I wouldn't even call it "promising but inconclusive" so much as "not conclusively a dead-end for further research". In a single-arm open-label study, with no blinding, both the participants and the researchers know who's getting what. You need a placebo and double-blinding for comparison against the active group and to adjust for any ways in which the researchers may have unwittingly influenced the results. (Or perhaps even wittingly, when there are conflicts of interest. I spent half a minute looking up this study and didn't see any statement attesting that there were none.)

New comment by trehalose in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

trehalose — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:53:35 +0000

I wish it the scoring readout at the end would display the LLM's descriptions of the commands I shouldn't have approved. I approved the rm -rf Projects command because I thought the LLM had correctly described that it would delete everything in the Projects folder. Clearly I misread that in my hurry to answer prompts (I knew what the command would do and I guess I hallucinated that the AI had explained it), but I'd like to see what it was that I misread.

Playing this game made me very glad I don't agentmaxx.

New comment by trehalose in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

trehalose — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:21:50 +0000

They can't nullify the debt by shutting the store down, but can they shut it down to create further headaches and delays for the person trying to collect the debt?

New comment by trehalose in "Utah greenlights 9GW AI campus using over twice state electricity"

trehalose — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:36:24 +0000

> MIDA executive director Paul Morris told county commissioners that the facility “will not take one electron” from the existing grid

Cool. Will it drive up the price of the existing grid's existing electrons though? It'll increase demand for the natural gas that keeps those electrons moving.

New comment by trehalose in "To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets"

trehalose — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:42:01 +0000

If he hasn't, then why would he refuse to say so?

New comment by trehalose in "Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006)"

trehalose — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:33:02 +0000

Sometimes "to either x or y" doesn't mean "to do one of x or y", sometimes it means "to be able to do both x and y (but not necessarily at the same time purposefully)".

New comment by trehalose in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

trehalose — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:01:50 +0000

That's kind of what I was trying to say, or at least it kind of goes along with it. This meme of "somebody drove into a river just because Google Maps told them to" is a grossly distorted retelling of a fatal accident. One could twist any tragedy into a glib soundbite about how the dead stupidly trusted other people. The street could collapse under my feet as I'm crossing it and I drown in the sewer, and people on the internet would be laughing about how I dived into the sewer just because a traffic light told me to. There were some cracks in the asphalt, so obviously I should have known it wasn't safe to walk across, but I wasn't thinking for myself.

I suppose part of the reason so many people are so dangerously trustful of LLMs is because they assume that if the LLM was put out there by decently responsible humans (doubtful, but understandable), then so too should the LLM be decently responsible? The analogy does break down there.

New comment by trehalose in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

trehalose — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:58:26 +0000

If you were driving on an unmarked, unbarricaded bridge that Google Maps directed you over in a dark and rainy night, are you 100% certain you'd be driving slowly, undistracted, and checking to make sure the bridge isn't collapsed?

New comment by trehalose in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"

trehalose — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:20:28 +0000

Yeah... Non-sentient monkey "organ sacks" as a replacement for animal testing sounds great, but those organs aren't going to function or even develop the same without a brain. At best, I think this could only be another step to filter out unsafe compounds between testing on cells and testing on whole animals. Potentially with misleading results, I imagine.

New comment by trehalose in "Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science"

trehalose — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:48:57 +0000

Could you give a concrete example or two of what exactly this system does? Like, what's a scientific result or two it has formally mathematically proved?

New comment by trehalose in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

trehalose — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:06:08 +0000

It would seem their service identifies only phishing sites as legitimate ones. It would seem 100% of sites they deem legitimate are phishing sites. Incredible.

New comment by trehalose in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

trehalose — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:10:39 +0000

I find it hard to imagine that the people in a position to kill those processes could ever be that zealously in love with AI, but recent events have given me a tiny bit of doubt.

New comment by trehalose in "You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer"

trehalose — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:52:33 +0000

I hope the security team talked to the legal team about that. There is potential for OpenClaw to commit crimes on behalf of the company.