The Sloppification of Peptides

(henryaj.substack.com)

38 points | by henryaj 2 hours ago

4 comments

  • elliotec 30 minutes ago
    A robots.txt explicitly allowing LLMs has nothing to do with whether it was made for humans or not and is generally the right move assuming you want your site picked up and recommended by AI tools. No different than allowing search engine crawlers to pick it up and the authors focus on that is bizarre when the rest of the evidence is so stark.
    • xyzelement 3 minutes ago
      His point is that the goal of this site is to skew the knowledge of future models, to which this is a relevant point (though.i agree not smoking gun alone)
  • bamboozled 32 minutes ago
    But, what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ? Does it replace, Good Food, Sleep and an exercise ?
    • zemvpferreira 9 minutes ago
      Ozempic and Mounjaro are peptides. They are a silver bullet for obesity and orders of magnitude more effective than anything up to a gastric band surgery. Insulin is a peptide and keeps some 50 million people alive globally. You could go on and on.

      The real question is: Should you be putting novel, poorly researched and dubiously manufactured substances (which happen to be peptides) in your body via injection? To that I say, to each their own but I'll wait for the pharma industry to catch up. I'm not that bored.

    • victorbjorklund 7 minutes ago
      Clearly they have effects. Heck insulin is a peptide. And pretty sure it has a benefit for those with diabetes. Dismissing peptides outright is just as silly as thinking peptides are the solution to everything
    • fl0id 25 minutes ago
      You can feel like you have control of your life and body, without doing anything about sleep, exercise or food. If you like that control.
      • bamboozled 23 minutes ago
        I guess "feeling like", sounds like a placebo.

        From what I've read there is some real risks associated with using them. Sounds a bit like the marketing of steroids in the 70s.

        • victorbjorklund 7 minutes ago
          Insulin is a peptide. Not sure if it is really a placebo when a diabetic needs insulin.
    • TFNA 29 minutes ago
      I have seen so much talk of Bay Area "peptide parties", so at least there is some social benefit?
      • bamboozled 20 minutes ago
        I'm not sure I'd agree that a "bay area peptide party" has any real, useful social benefit. Sounds like hell.
  • Avicebron 30 minutes ago
    Tldr: the sketchiness of buying drugs online from china to inject has become sketchier.