http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6493 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:28:21 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6493 Hideous, or less prejudicially, and as Dave might put it: truly Burroughsian.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6486 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:35:58 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6486 See also canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), a disease affecting dogs, descended from dogs. Yudkowsky’s nightmare is humans evolving lower intelligence – CTVT takes devolution to a different level.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6478 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:54:50 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6478 The human microbiome is certainly out on the frontier. When the aliens get spliced into ‘your’ DNA, though, you’re talking a whole new level of intimacy.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6474 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:34:38 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6474 http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/11/medical-and-psychological-studies-for-june/

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6473 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:34:05 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6473 Also, obesity can be caused by what’s in your gut (I don’t mean food).

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6463 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:09:36 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6463 Lemurs, viruses, madness… it’s WSB’s world; the rest of us just live in it

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/the-madness-within/#comment-6425 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:08:36 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=638#comment-6425 A truly fascinating theory. I wonder if any other of our modern inexplicable soft-epidemics (allergies, obesity, autism, etc.) could be explained through these sorts of unconventional infections. On the other hand, I remember when prions were all the rage and were once speculated to have radical explanatory power, and that hope proved overoptimistic.

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