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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I find it surprising sociopaths are allowed to just be free in society. They invariably are a net loss for society and certainly for anyone who is involved with them. I can’t even imagine how screwed this persons husband would be if this article were true. One way to spot a sociopath is to look at the people close to them. They almost always are a little odd or dumb. This is because smart, normal people never allow themselves to get too close to sociopaths. Somewhere along the line between acquaintance and close friend, most people get a peek under the veil and feel the cold, nauseating feeling that comes over you when you encounter pure, unnatural evil. People really don’t get it until they have some kind of experience with a sociopath. There’s nothing more creepy than getting that glimpse of their true nature, through a small crack in their facade, and seeing things that are totally outside of normal human behavior. Things you wouldn’t even think of until you saw it. The reason why nobody gets it is because it’s just too alien.
Sociopaths are dangerous. Everything in our culture and society is built around the fact, purposefully or not, that most people have basic empathy for the direct and visceral experience of seeing another person suffer. If you involve yourself with a sociopath, there are no mechanisms at play to help you. You will find yourself totally destroyed. If everyone in the world really knew what sociopaths are, they wouldn’t be allowed to roam freely. I’m astounded at how casually the subject is addressed in this thread.
Comment · 6 years ago
So a single person decides they don’t like my comment and now it’s faded out where nobody will bother reading it. I think it’s important so I am asking for the upvotes to not dip below zero because I would like as many people to read it as possible whether they upvote or not... it was a similar comment that literally saved my life.
Comment · 6 years ago
The idea that people are imagining this, as other commenters have put forward, is nonsense. The idea that people are just getting old and drink too much soda isn’t right either although it’s close.
The reason why people report similar or overlapping symptoms is because they all have a problem with their immune systems. Overactive immune systems tend to cause a certain set of symptoms.
The immune system is very complicated, very broad in its jurisdiction and very poorly understood. It is scientifically proven that certain chemicals (common food additives for example) cause no immune (allergic) response at all whatsoever, but cause an immune response to other chemicals. So the immune system is not just complex as a monolith but also has inputs that interact with one another, leading to a combinatoric level of complexity. When you also consider that immune function and mediation (as seen with some food additives, for example) is observed in emotional stress — something that is as close to being unquantifiable as anything could be — one can see that it might be the case that this is a disease that has evaded medical science until now.
Chronic fatigue syndrome was observed in gulf war vets and was so common among them that it was coined “gulf war syndrome.” One researcher has hypothesized that this is due to an immune response which takes the form of cell deactivation via ATP signaling which he has named “cell danger response.”
Meanwhile, it is widely appreciated that autism is not caused by destroyed neural circuits but by deactivated neural circuits. And people with autism can experience remission under certain circumstances, like having parts of their brain electrically shocked, most commonly via TMS. Cell danger response could also explain this.
This researcher, whose name is too complicated to bother spelling it, used this hypothesis to design a study in which an obscure drug that blocks ATP receptors was given to autistic children. All of the children who received this drug experienced immediate and unprecedented improvement in their symptoms, unprecedented both in the context of these patients and in the context of medical science. That was just months ago. Further studies are coming.
The gulf war vets were all exposed to chemicals, stress and a heavy regimen of crazy vaccines designed to make them immune to biological warfare agents, if I remember correctly.
As I have pointed out, immune inputs influence one another. The combination of stress, chemicals and vaccines likely caused gulf war syndrome, even though politically this begins to ruffle feathers.
There has been no study so far that has looked for a connection between this wholistic idea of immune dysfunction and autism. That is to say, there are no studies looking at the combination of stress, chemicals and vaccines and autism. There have been no studies looking for a connection between the former and a collection of disorders that might include autism. Further, there have been no purely randomized studies looking for a connection between vaccines and autism. But as I have shown, even if there were, it might still miss the connection because the connection is not between vaccines and autism, it is between many immune system inputs and many possible adverse outcomes. And that is not even to consider the fact that autism might have multiple, totally separate and distinct causes besides immune dysfunction, which again none of the current studies look for. The issue is not settled and people who bark at me when I bring this up are stymying science...
Obviously, even if what I claim is true then it would still be in the best interest of society to administer vaccines. Please do not lose your composure.
Until very recently I had absolutely no inclination to believe that chronic fatigue was real or that there might be some sliver of truth to the vaccine thing. But then I was stricken by an immune problem myself, which is a huge story, but coincidentally I found that the ketogenic diet completely cured me which, because my illness fell into an established and unambiguous field of medicine, was totally inexplicable. So I went down the rabbit hole which led me to see that the ketogenic diet is extremely potent anti inflammatory, is useful for curing many other things, and that there is a medical revolution in the pipes regarding inflammation and metabolics, the implications of which I am not sure anyone is ready to reconcile with.
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Mast cells are immune cells that contain many different kinds of molecules, one of which is the famous “histamine.” These cells release these molecules in response to immune signals. Their chemicals are not understood. It is scientifically proven that (in mice I think) wounds cannot heal without mast cells present. This shows you how broad their function is, and opens even wider the possibility of very complicated and unintuitive problems resulting from their dysfunction. Mast cells are present in the heart, the emotional centers of the brain and many other places. You will notice that many long haulers report tachycardia, depression and anxiety.
Comment · 6 years ago
They state very bluntly that MS is an autoimmune disease... when did this become clear to mainstream science? I believe it is though, and I also believe that remyelination is always occurring but hampered in MS and even regular people. Taking away the inflammatory signal will result in remyelination without any stem cells in my opinion.
Comment · 6 years ago
What happened to hacker news?
Comment · 6 years ago
So this is it! Bethesda is officially dead. ESO was the early prognosis and 76 was the death rattle. This is the funeral.
Morrowind was a masterpiece of a game. Oblivion was amazing. Skyrim was quite special and carried the genre forward but left behind important bits from morrowind. The job of making the spiritual successor to oblivion and morrowind is now officially open to anyone because Bethesda will never do it.
Comment · 6 years ago
Reading the comments it struck me: why is tele operated agricultural robots not a thing? A robot with wheels and an array of cameras and arms. It rolls down the line and remote workers pick the fruit. Maybe even out of country workers being paid pennies...I’m sure the latency could be overcome. You could host thousands of humans with very few robots. Better productivity, lower cost in the long run and you’re resilient against labor problems which is really good when all your labor is illegal. If nobody gives a good reason why it doesn’t exist I would be receptive to people who might want to do a start up...
Googling around I find some recent stuff. It seems to have started being on people’s minds in the past five years only. A lot of complicated articulated arms and inputs. I am only more convinced that there is arbitrage here... a very simple articulation mechanism, something akin to what hello robot did vs willow garage, would be totally new. And you don’t have to replicate perfectly the performance of humans because it’s a sliding scale, you could use the robot to downsize at first, following it with a small human team.
Comment · 6 years ago
California barely has any foot left to shoot.
Comment · 6 years ago
There should be a paper floating out there about DOI, which is actually the most potent anti inflamatory, more so than Lsd. He has other papers too. Sorry I’m on my phone.
Comment · 6 years ago
All of the popular psychedelics are extremely potent anti inflammatories, even at sub-psychoactive doses. And the effect lasts for months. And inflammation touches almost every modern illness... so it is a magic bullet. They also cure cluster headaches and migraines and people who suffer from those would certainly call it a magic bullet. Should we be testing every possible application to see what sticks? Yes.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ok so I looked it up and it appears that this concept of very thin and light electrodes is basically taking off right now with multiple implementations. In this context, Neuralink is basically competing against other products for a share of the neuro-implant market, which will be big at some point. Why doesn’t your comment mention any of this? Or the relative merits of each competitor? It’s not clear that neuralink was the first or the last to do any of this. Why should their effort to find an electrode material that prevents loss of signal be minimized? Shouldn’t they be encouraged to find a solution like the other people trying to find a solution in academia?
And I know you won’t answer this because nobody ever answers questions that aren’t inflammatory or insulting... but how could information not be encoded in the brain? When you dream, your brain could not possibly be generating the raw sensory signals... the only way to explain lucid dreams is heavy encoding of information and a really powerful guessing system to fill in gaps where signal decoding was weak or didn’t happen.
Comment · 6 years ago
Actually every comment section out there is riddled with this question and it is directly addressed in the video. Perhaps you should watch it...
Of course people who were friends with Ted Bundy were surprised! Do you think they would be his friends otherwise? For every friend there were two people who weren’t surprised I can promise you. And yes some sociopaths are geniuses but that’s not relevant to my point at all. Most sociopaths are not able to play a rol perfectly forever. Ted bundy is a perfect example of that.
I once had the pleasure of encountering a sociopath in a social setting. He was charming and I was the only one who knew, and I knew instantly, everyone else loved him. And sure enough it was only a matter of time before the others came around one by one. If you know what to look for they are easy to spot. Extremely easy. The difference in autonomic responses alone is almost impossible to conceal.