Last month I posted about humming as a cheap and convenient way to flood your nose with nitric oxide (NO), a known antiviral. Alas, the economists were right, and the benefits were much smaller than I estimated.

The post contained one obvious error and one complication. Both were caught by Thomas Kwa, for which he has my gratitude. When he initially pointed out the error I awarded him a $50 bounty; now that the implications are confirmed I’ve upped that to $250. In two weeks an additional $750 will go to either him or to whoever provides new evidence that causes me to retract my retraction.

Humming produces much less nitric oxide than Enovid

I found the dosage of NO in Enovid in a trial registration. Unfortunately I misread the dose- what I original read as “0.11ppm NO/hour” was in fact “0.11ppm NO*hour”. I [...]

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Outline:

(00:45) Humming produces much less nitric oxide than Enovid

(03:28) Reasons to not write off humming entirely

(03:59) Conclusions

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First published:
June 6th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dsZeogoPQbF8jSHMB/humming-is-not-a-free-usd100-bill

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Humming is not a free $100 bill” by Elizabeth

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