Or this:

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I got asked why I’m reading papers in a way that contradicts the abstract

Very fake. Asking why the cited studies straight up said “no effects on humans” got me a block. One paper was by an author better known for the God Helmet and the main harm papers come from two guys who cited themselves for years.

Yes I do think developing new detectors is excellent. I think it would be really cool to be able to “see” with infrasound. But there isn’t any way to connect it to harm that has a causal link.

Exactly! I thought there was something special about the data centers in the video. But then I went through the papers and the way he was amplifying the the signal to the detectable range after reading the blog post and felt duped. And then, when I asked about it, got blocked.

Basically. Other option is using a thing like a theragun or sitting on/in a tractor with no seat suspension.

The only way it would make sense is if the human was physically being shaken by the machine.

When asked, he supplied several more papers that did not support any harm from infrasound; one paper said that “harm is possibly a thing that can be measured perhaps”. Yes it was that unclear. Really sad, since I was a fan too.

And just pointing out that the papers did not say what Jordan said they did earned me one too.

Oh there’s so much more. For a while on Twitter he was doing multiple takes a day and another user posted screenshots each time of their interactions.

I chuckled when I saw the account

That’s the thing: this kind of stimulation is studied in physiotherapy as percussive therapy. It requires actively striking the body, like a massage gun. So it’s not really understudied as a healing mechanism either

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Yep I skimmed it and it is not good evidence for anything.

honestly no. It's also a pretty bad paper. Guess what its references are for bad effects: God helmet guy and the VAD people.

Honestly I think current GPT pro would do better. So I don’t think it’s GPT. Perhaps a local LLM paper parser? Qwen 3.5?

This is in the abstract!

That’s hilarious! The paper is about HEALING! It looks at other papers slowing healing effects!

They are also things we know how to mitigate. Loud sounds are bad but have known fixes.

Yep. I remember watching it when it came out. No effect whatsoever. (I miss mythbusters)

The paper on data centers in Virginia cites a successful audible noise mitigation effort and a paper about how green spaces are good. There’s nothing there about infrasound and not even much about data centers being bad in general? Just that we should think about effects. That’s all

How do just a few joules of energy vibrating a distended belly give humans nausea, while not being instantaneously dissipated by taking a step or sitting on a cushioned seat?

And the physics teacher thing is wild. Almost all energy in a data center is being dissipated as heat. Some small fraction is sound (which is noise pollution and a known problem). An even smaller fraction is infrasound. So what mechanism explains the build-up of infrasound energy in human bodies?

Also wtf is that stuff about the resonance of the body? The human body is soft! For a resonance to build we would need to have stiffness! Every micro-movement and stretch would prevent a resonance.

Yep it’s awful. He added a paper discussing “pathways for humans to hear infrasound” that uses, and dismisses, literature that found no effects at 90 dB!

Can’t say I disagree

I do think the people who should be removing flocks are the people who installed them. I know he was trying to push for that, going to town halls etc. I thought that was good of him.

Amazing!

And this is the problem. I went through the papers he sent and also the ones he replied to me and Masley with. They do not support the effect of infrasound being bad; one of the meta-papers straight up says that there are no effects from infrasound on humans.

Yeah I looked it up and I don’t see a way to control the way it acts as a dac. Product pages say no driver needed.

Might have a driver? I know FiiO has a specific driver when used on windows, but I dunno if you’re using that or if the sub-brand uses the same software