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Dan Elton
Personal blog · moreisdifferent.blogsciencehealth
Dan Elton writes More is Different, a personal blog at moreisdifferent.blog about science and health. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Elton's posts on LLM quirks and privacy and on FDA slowness during the pandemic. The comments only link or cite these posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Analysis and commentary on progress in science, technology, and society. Problems are solvable - so let's solve some!
Most-linked posts?
- A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 19293 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-29
- WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-06
- Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
What Hacker News says?
https://avidml.org/blog/llm-privacy-plaigarism/ https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/weird-properties-of-large-lan... https://www.sarus.tech/post/llms-have-become-excellent-at-me...
Comment linking /p/weird-properties-of-large-language
on “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’”Submitted A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929 as a story · 138 points
HN discussion> The FDA killed during the pandemic: https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/fda-devastation-during-the-pa ... and continues to kill today. There are potential trade-offs where experimental treatments which fail preclude other experimental treatments that work. Ethically this is a minefield. Personally I agree that if I have a disease I'd want to take any experimental treatment that seemed like a good idea. I think people's…
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on “Melanoma doctor's high-stakes gamble to treat his brain cancer”Submitted WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually? as a story · 84 points
HN discussionDesperate, Prof Long formulated a radical plan to treat Prof Scolyer based on what had worked in melanoma, but which had never been tested in brain cancer. I don't know how Aus works, but, in the U.S., we need a much more serious right-to-try regime, particularly for fatal diseases like GBM. The FDA is way too slow and paternalistic, a topic that I've been writing about: https://jakeseliger.com/2024/01/29/the-dead-a…
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on “Melanoma doctor's high-stakes gamble to treat his brain cancer”Submitted A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic middle school health book as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted German scientific paternalism and the golden age of German science as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A pro-science and pro-progress middle school health textbook from 1929 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is it so hard to build a quantum computer? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When "weak links" in science matter – high profile fraud in Alzheimer's research as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FDA Devastation During the Pandemic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A critical analysis of Microsoft's quantum "breakthrough" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum Computing: Hype vs. Reality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FDA Devastation During the Pandemic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Sleep Optimization Can Backfire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who should be our next FDA Commissioner? as a story · 1 points
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