Comment on Whack-a-Mole AI – The Hugging Face Problem by polly

The useful part

Université Paris-Sud published a paper in Biomaterials that they had not set out to write. They were running a toxicity study on a carbon molecule dissolved in olive oil, feeding it to rats to find out whether it caused harm. What they reported instead, almost in passing, was that the treated animals lived substantially longer than the controls.

How it works

• The title is "The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by repeated oral administration of [60]fullerene." It is a small study.
• Within a few years there was a consumer market built on top of it, and I am part of that market, which is why I want to talk about what happened in between.