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New comment by krzat in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

krzat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:52:38 +0000

When I read the title I expected some kind of satire. I wonder if author considered giving the AI a penance.

Maybe if it wrote "I will not delete production database again" a million times, it would prevent such situations in future?

New comment by krzat in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

krzat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:25:29 +0000

Cool, maybe we could make CRISPR elves?

New comment by krzat in "Claude Opus 4.7"

krzat — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:58:41 +0000

Humans tend to confabulate when asked "why you did X", funny how LLMs are pretty much the same.

New comment by krzat in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

krzat — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:02 +0000

I guess it's a matter of time until TVs include GSM modem for ads and DRM.

New comment by krzat in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

krzat — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:43:04 +0000

The end game is Zuckerberg sitting alone in his bunker and vibe-ceo'ing all of facebook.

New comment by krzat in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

krzat — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:42:58 +0000

Imagine ideal future, and consider if it's achievable without AI.

Being forced to work is not much different from slavery, I would rather roll the dice than keep the status quo.

New comment by krzat in "Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music"

krzat — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:49:29 +0000

IMO, if we had enough brain scans paired with descriptions of subjective experience, we could create a decent bridge between objective and subjective.

New comment by krzat in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

krzat — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:37:52 +0000

Do you celebrate people who persevere despite despite their hardships?

Ability to persevere is also wired in.

If you pull this thread to it's conclusion, then nothing is worth celebrating. Just law of physics doing their thing.

New comment by krzat in "Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music"

krzat — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:56:43 +0000

Frequent music chills were an unexpected side effect of my meditation practice. It matches with their "openness to experience" conclusion.

I also found out that you can encourage chills with meditative techniques:

1. Play your song, for example Sogno di Volare.

2. Close your eyes.

3. Think about awesome things: how cool it is that humans invented airplanes and rockets and satelites.

New comment by krzat in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

krzat — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:48:22 +0000

You forgot the part where everything you send is used to train your replacement.

New comment by krzat in "Neurons outside the brain"

krzat — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:49:21 +0000

The assumption that neuron activity == consciousness is incorrect.

A lot of neurons in our brain are doing visual processing. How much of it is conscious?

Writing this comment, I have very little insight into how I am able to create this sentence and then read it. Makes me wonder what's the point of being conscious anyway.

New comment by krzat in "Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function"

krzat — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:31:18 +0000

> The most pronounced associated differences were observed with intake of approximately 2 to 3 cups per day of caffeinated coffee or 1 to 2 cups per day of tea.

Weird, tea is supposed to have half the caffeine of coffee.

New comment by krzat in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

krzat — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:05:21 +0000

I find the anthropic principle fascinating.

I was born to this world at a certain point in time. I look around, and I see environment compatible with me: air, water, food, gravity, time, space. How deep does this go? Why I am not an ant or bacteria?

New comment by krzat in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"

krzat — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:20:19 +0000

Imagine if we could turn our bodies into perfect spheres, and then adjust genetic beauty preferences to match it.

New comment by krzat in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"

krzat — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:15:06 +0000

Cool. I wonder how long until we are able to steal anti-cancer genes from whales.

New comment by krzat in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

krzat — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:37:40 +0000

You know what else is well specified? LLM improving on itself.

New comment by krzat in "I miss thinking hard"

krzat — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Same here, waiting for response destroys any focus I have had.

New comment by krzat in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

krzat — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:52:54 +0000

It's kinda obvious if you think about this:

- How come we have 2 eyes but see one 3d world?

- We hear sounds and music coming from various directions, but all of this is created from 2 vibrating eardrums

New comment by krzat in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

krzat — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:58:43 +0000

If a drug has an 1% chance of 100% effect, it will look pretty weak in those studies.

IMO it's pretty clear that depression is a symptom of many independent issues, so it's really lame that we don't have a more accurate way of diagnosing it.

New comment by krzat in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

krzat — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:56:04 +0000

> But if you use Patreon's WEB Site directly, the fee cannot be collected by Apple.

Yet. Apple forces a specific browser engine on all apps, so they have the means to block patreon website too.