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Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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EGreg wrote: post #121

Just because LLMs can write copy for webpages doesn't mean they should. A landing page should not warrant a tl;dr.

If you're going to mock me by repeating my own words on a different HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665394), at least make it make sense because this is not analogous other than the Claude-esque design (which to be fair could be better). There is human intentionality in terms of how the information is presented (e.g. using Astro.js) and wit and it is not verbose or the output of just telling Claude to output as much detail as possible, and per the comments from the author, fixing any Claudisms instead of embracing them.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

hermitcrab wrote: post #98

Interesting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normally an illusory door bell. It is very convincing. You rush down to the door and there is no-one there and my wife heard nothing. Maybe happens 2 or 3 times a year. I also get the occasional weird nerve shock.…

I get the doorbell too, super weird.

Headcanon: Cortisol spike right before you wake up. Brain goes, "something must have alarmed me", and cooks up phenomena: loud noise, feeling of falling/tripping, etc.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

RobotToaster wrote: post #88

Since you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite. Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu

The feeling that you haven't experienced something before, which should by all accounts feel familiar to you.

>A study by Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. He reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word.

I also like this poster:

https://files.catbox.moe/ejj1jl.jpg

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

hermitcrab wrote: post #116

Proctalgia fugax ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/proctalgia-fugax/ ), also known as "shooty arse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USB90D7ywiE

The video is oddly comforting. "Everyone gets it!"

I remember reading about the phenomenon, that it was colitis (inflammation of the arse, presumably due to gut flora imbalance).

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

ColinWright wrote: post #128
smusamashah wrote: post #124

I can move my ears. But it's not ears alone, whole scalp skin seems to move and ears get pulled from behind as a result. I learned it from my uncle as kid though by trying to do the same as him.

I can do each ear independently.

I was unable to do this, and was promptly angered by my own incompetence, and overcame it through sheer force of will.

(Made funny faces in the mirror for an hour.)

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

echelon wrote: post #62
VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What world are you living in where you’re okay with this? Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing. Code something yourself on neocities.

This is not slop. It took effort. This is not a one shot fire and forget project.

Value != Effort:

Infinite randomly generated slop + The Algorithm = Extremely personalized value delivered

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

vesterde wrote: post #36
adamgordonbell wrote: post #34

Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything. https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...

My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.

My mum taught me the ear popping thing, while we were traveling by air, to relieve the ear pressure.

I can do it on command but never paid attention to how before.

It's basically "yawning manually". There's a couple different muscles activating at the same time, most irrelevant to the popping, I can't control them individually yet. (Probably learnable, if I practiced I could probably get the pop more efficiently.)

But yeah, just yawn real wide, that should do it.

A lot of stuff is learnable, like I couldn't move my ears but taught myself how to do it because I was bored.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

bogwog wrote: post #115

It should be illegal to publish AI horrors like this: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/ Life in prison (at least) But more on topic, this site is a cool idea but with the lamest execution ever. Whatever effort you might have put into collecting these phenomenon is overshadowed by the lazy AI slop. It doesn't seem like you're earning anything from this, so you just donated money to Anthropic/OpenAI/…

Nah, it's cool.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

tompark wrote: post #47

I immediately looked up whether it had "piss shiver" and it did. It was disappointing when Cecil (Straight Dope) refused to investigate it. (Don't suppose you'd include orgasmic quiver?) Synesthesia is multifaceted. When I was a kid I used to feel a shape in my hand whenever I felt a certain emotion. That went away in my 20's. Later as an adult I guessed it was a kind of synesthesia.

>orgasmic quiver

very interesting google results for this one lol

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by andai »

SA9G wrote: post #15

They left out "autoheadslap", the sharp pain you get whenever anyone mentions Nvidia and you smack your forehead as you remember cancelling your massive buy order back when it was $110 and had not split yet!! It is often accompanied by uncontrolled twitching and repeatedly saying "fuuuuuuuuu" as you bite your tongue. Yes, a rare but real human affliction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE
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