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New comment by Tzt in "Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life"

Tzt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:45:54 +0000

This implementation has an explicit mutation rate! That's not in the spirit of the original paper, where programs "mutate" from interacting with other random pre seeded programs.

New comment by Tzt in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

Tzt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:27:01 +0000

>Greg Egan's "Rifters"

By Peter Watts actually.

New comment by Tzt in "Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine"

Tzt — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:03:09 +0000

"free will" also known as digits of pi mod 2

New comment by Tzt in "Training LLMs for honesty via confessions"

Tzt — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:48:30 +0000

Yes, absolute majority of new ones use CoTs, long chain of reasoning you don't see.

Also some of them use such a weird style of talking in them e.g.

o3 talks about watchers and marinade, and cunning schemes https://www.antischeming.ai/snippets

gpt5 gets existential about seahorses https://x.com/blingdivinity/status/1998590768118731042

I remember one where gpt5 spontaneously wrote a poem about deception in its CoT and then resumed like nothing weird happened. But I can't find mentions of it now.

New comment by Tzt in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

Tzt — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:13:17 +0000

In that analogy "someone" is an AI, who of course switches from answering questions from humans, to answering questions from other AIs, because the demand is 10x.

New comment by Tzt in "Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously"

Tzt — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:55:40 +0000

I agree with this. This a remarkably bad podcast. And also pretty bad paper to focus on. As the podcast was quite bad, I just read it and it was about nothing at all.

Like, it's a basically blogpost that muses about uhhh couple examples it pulled at random from esolang wiki and has literally no point. Beside prescriptive one. Formatted as a paper, which I admit takes some skills.

New comment by Tzt in "The history of cataract surgery"

Tzt — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:47:35 +0000

Well, it's also an indicator for how well its other claims would hold up if you dug deeper on them too.

New comment by Tzt in "Eels are fish"

Tzt — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:33:42 +0000

Well, there are also legless salamanders, that look like eels pretty much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-toed_amphiuma

Some of them have no lungs even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcaecilia_iwokramae

So, it makes sense to say that eels are fish, because there are lungless eel-like creatures that are actually amphibians.

New comment by Tzt in "Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata"

Tzt — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:10:33 +0000

I don't get it, does the prediction go backwards or forward along CA generations?

New comment by Tzt in "Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata"

Tzt — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:59:30 +0000

CNNs are CA if you don't insert fully connected layers, actually.

New comment by Tzt in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

Tzt — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:39:33 +0000

Well, kinda? I often know what chunks / functions I need, but too lazy to think how to implement them exactly, how they should works inside. Yeah, you need to have overall idea of what you are trying to make.

New comment by Tzt in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

Tzt — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:35:51 +0000

What do you mean several years, it became feasible like 6 months ago lol. No, gpt3.5 doesn't count, it's a completely useless thing.

New comment by Tzt in "Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans and domestic animals"

Tzt — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:32:58 +0000

"Wild mammals"

nice one, journalism

New comment by Tzt in "An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]"

Tzt — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:19:16 +0000

why not make AI on the same platform as the human brain? what is so exceptional about it, and even if it is an exceptional material, why not just use it?