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Dan Elton

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Dan Elton

@moreisdifferent

@MetascienceObs, @RADVACProject, and @GeneWizardX. "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes". Leave anonymous feedback here: admonymous.co/delton137

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Joined October 2010

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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Jun 4
Some people jump to the conclusion I'm one of those nuts who think Long COVID is all psychosomatic.. Nope! I put together this list of potential causes along with tests and potential treatments. Any given Long COVID patient is likely to have multiple of these at once, also.
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Aug 16, 2023
😍Very impressive work! This is the final nail in the coffin for #LK99 - no point wasting any more time trying to replicate the Korean paper at this point! "Pure crystals of LK-99, synthesized by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany"
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Oct 20, 2024
List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:🧵 #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he had to resign from Stanford Presidency, but can still run lab and do research.
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Apr 7, 2022
Sam Altman: "..predictions about AI are very difficult to make. A decade ago, the conventional wisdom was that AI would first impact physical labor, & then cognitive labor, & then maybe someday it could do creative work. It now looks like it’s going to go in the opposite order."
Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Sep 8, 2023
He really is starting to look younger. Someone once said that as soon as people are able to see the effects of age reversal therapies, that’s when the public interest will hit an inflection point.
Bryan Johnson
@bryan_johnson
Sep 7, 2023
headed to @raadfest
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Apr 1, 2024
I’m at #AICures .. many doctors and medical professionals here. There’s probably 400 people here and I’m the only one masking. @maosbot #LongCOVID
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Apr 1, 2024
So I am a bit ashamed to discuss this, but, for those who don't know: The first time I got COVID-19 was during the Omicron wave. I was on a 10 day trip in the SF Bay Area in June 2022. I know exactly how I got COVID-19. The one time I took my N95 mask off during the trip was
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Sep 11, 2024
BREAKING! @francescagino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against @DataColada from last year has been dismissed by the court! This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Feb 18, 2023
1/ Trying to signal boost w a short 🧵 Amateur Go player Kellin Pelrine can consistently beat "KataGo", an AI system that was once classified as "strongly superhuman". Strikingly, the strategies employed to beat the AI do not foil other amateur players. ft.com/content/175e53…
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Apr 1, 2024
The following can all be true at once about #COVID19 (this is scary): ➡️ Getting COVID-19 now feels like getting the flu or less, for almost everyone. ➡️ About 5% of people will get sick for a year or longer with Long COVID. 2-3% will have life-deranging illness for multiple
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Oct 24, 2023
Replying to @eLife
What do you think firing someone over such a nothing-burger will accomplish?
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Sep 2, 2021
I recently learned that in orthodox Judaism it is customary for people to study in pairs, reading a text together and discussing it. In fact, they often require that everyone have a study partner (chavrusa). Why isn't this practice more widely adopted in higher ed?
Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
May 25, 2023
New talk from @ylecun: "auto-regressive LLMs are doomed" Errors accumulate exponentially. "This is not fixable with the current architecture... the shelf life of autoregressive LLMs is very short-- in 5 years nobody in their right mind will use them." youtu.be/mViTAXCg1xQ?t=…
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Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
Oct 20, 2024
Replying to @moreisdifferent and @tab_delete
#2 - Sylvain Lesné His 2006 Nature paper has 3515 citations and greatly affected the direction of Alzheimer's R&D, leading researchers & companies to focus on targeting Aβ*56. It took 16 years before the fraudulent images were found by @schrag_matthew. Lesné remains a Professor.
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