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New comment by krzat in "Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior"

krzat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:12:18 +0000

Oh, the irony of writing an angry post about benefits of anger.

New comment by krzat in "The room the economy can't see"

krzat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:14:03 +0000

Many open source efforts seem to belong to this category as well.

New comment by krzat in "Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML"

krzat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:16:07 +0000

Some time ago I stumbled onto a bizzare "Peter Thiel on Political Theology" Tyler Cowen episode. Of Course Cowen is on this list.

New comment by krzat in "Midjourney Medical"

krzat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:07:57 +0000

If this argument was as solid as you say, then all routine checks would be pointless.

I don't know about traditional blood testing, but a permanent implant which checks HR, pressure, glucose, temperature & oxidation would be pretty useful, not necessarily to diagnose anything, but to provide data for doctor when patient has actual symptomps.

New comment by krzat in "Making 'food out of thin air' (2024)"

krzat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:57:51 +0000

Coal margarine, this protein powder and some vitamins, I wonder how long human could survive on such "diet".

New comment by krzat in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

krzat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:24:06 +0000

Not to mention that you can also ask LLM to summarize any of his books, and get the gist.

Reading an entire book may be more beneficient for habit forming, but most readers probably don't care about this.

New comment by krzat in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

krzat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:09:12 +0000

What makes us conscious anyway? As I write this sentence, my brain generates words and contracts specific muscles in my hands to type, but I don't really understand how. I'm just aware that it happens. Apparently I'm no aware of every single neuronal activity, so what I am aware of?

New comment by krzat in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

krzat — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:06:26 +0000

I agree about definition confusion. I like to define consciousness as "capability to suffer".

Can cow/dog/spider suffer? - very important question, even if not answerable.

New comment by krzat in "Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined"

krzat — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:18:53 +0000

Yeah, it's not immediately obvious, but if we created perfect utopia where conditions are ideal, perfectly matched for given individual, heritability would be 0%.

New comment by krzat in "I'm scared about biological computing"

krzat — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:57:01 +0000

It's intriguing that some parts of brains are conscious, some are not. What's the difference?

New comment by krzat in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

krzat — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:52:15 +0000

Sounds right. I wonder why it is so hard to notice in regular everyday consciousness.

New comment by krzat in "Men who stare at walls"

krzat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:20:42 +0000

DMN starts when you are doing something trivial and start thinking about something completely unrelated.

It's kinda like falling asleep, except more coherent.

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.