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exr0n | 3 months ago

Super interesting! That would make sense, because a lot of the nose is presumably dedicated to smelling evolutionarily-relevant smells, most of which are "smells bad, avoid this". The method is very crude right now, but maybe with more fine-grained targetting we could better tune the smell profile.

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simsla|3 months ago

Good / bad / unclassified.

It makes sense for unclassified to smell worse than good, and it'd probably be the biggest category by a long stretch.

(Pure speculation.)

big-and-small|3 months ago

And even good / bad is sometimes subjective and brain can adjust to it depend on whatever you like the taste for instance. Tell you this as a big fan of durian. Since there a lot of chemicals responsible for smell brain override reaction to fruit once you love the taste.