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I accidentally discovered cross-species microbiome colonization in my dog

12 points by kinderpingui 11mo ago

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knollimar 11mo ago
I don't want to accuse this of being AI generated, but what's with some of the graph choices? The behavioral changes one seems very unreadable.
- kinderpingui 11mo ago
  That graph is not very readable, you are right. Since I don't have a unit to measure the dog's behavior changes, this is reflected in the graph
  - knollimar 11mo ago
    Your solution to not having a unit is graphing it with an unreadable scale???
- ticulatedspline 11mo ago
  Yeah, they're mostly fluff. Based on the title I'm a bit disappointed there wasn't more actual science here, like measuring bacterial content changes in the stool. While I don't doubt the perceived changes and there is plenty of human research indicating that gut bacteria dictates more about us than we'd like to admit the graphs in this article definitely portray the results as having more rigor than they actually did.
- Cpoll 11mo ago
  Looking at the author's other posts: Very prolific, long articles, and weird outliers like https://lightcapai.medium.com/should-i-go-milan-211ef725bb71 https://lightcapai.medium.com/should-i-go-milan-211ef725bb71, https://lightcapai.medium.com/if-you-are-suicidal-read-this-05f3bbe91502 https://lightcapai.medium.com/if-you-are-suicidal-read-this-..., and https://lightcapai.medium.com/alpay-algebra-solving-the-unsolvable-or-just-changing-the-rules-4c3c71c3869f https://lightcapai.medium.com/alpay-algebra-solving-the-unso... (a weird take on the halting problem).
- gnabgib 11mo ago
  The last post was similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899331
TomJansen 11mo ago
So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics. I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it. And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.
- kinderpingui 11mo ago
  I realize your deep concerns & I want to indicate that I bear full responsibility for it.

12 points by kinderpingui 11mo ago

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I don't want to accuse this of being AI generated, but what's with some of the graph choices? The behavioral changes one seems very unreadable.

kinderpingui 11mo ago
That graph is not very readable, you are right. Since I don't have a unit to measure the dog's behavior changes, this is reflected in the graph
- knollimar 11mo ago
  Your solution to not having a unit is graphing it with an unreadable scale???
ticulatedspline 11mo ago
Yeah, they're mostly fluff. Based on the title I'm a bit disappointed there wasn't more actual science here, like measuring bacterial content changes in the stool. While I don't doubt the perceived changes and there is plenty of human research indicating that gut bacteria dictates more about us than we'd like to admit the graphs in this article definitely portray the results as having more rigor than they actually did.
Cpoll 11mo ago
Looking at the author's other posts: Very prolific, long articles, and weird outliers like https://lightcapai.medium.com/should-i-go-milan-211ef725bb71 https://lightcapai.medium.com/should-i-go-milan-211ef725bb71, https://lightcapai.medium.com/if-you-are-suicidal-read-this-05f3bbe91502 https://lightcapai.medium.com/if-you-are-suicidal-read-this-..., and https://lightcapai.medium.com/alpay-algebra-solving-the-unsolvable-or-just-changing-the-rules-4c3c71c3869f https://lightcapai.medium.com/alpay-algebra-solving-the-unso... (a weird take on the halting problem).
gnabgib 11mo ago
The last post was similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899331

TomJansen 11mo ago

So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics. I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it. And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.

kinderpingui 11mo ago
I realize your deep concerns & I want to indicate that I bear full responsibility for it.