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majkinetor··on I Don't Like LLMs
In development world, yes he is (agile, patterns etc.). Not a grifter, how did you get that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engine...

majkinetor··on I Don't Like LLMs
Indeed. Very disappointing given what figure is in question. Simple GH pages behind CF would do which is something people starting learning IT this week can do.
majkinetor··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Yes, advice.

Eventually, you will be seen as a party breaker, and all that will be seen as negative. You are the bringer of the bad news; nobody likes that, no matter how reasonable you are. Shitty products are the norm when profit is in question and doing what is right is not and will be in most places taken as inability to be a valuable team member. There might be some slight chance that you will be in good environment, but even that is usually temporary as business owners, goals and incentives change.

majkinetor··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
Atoms are not exactly in short supply
majkinetor··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
That actually seems achievable (DART). Congratz, you nailed it.
majkinetor··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
I believe it would kill most humans, but all, no.
majkinetor··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
Well... you don't really have to coexist
majkinetor··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
That would be great, I highly recommend our AI overlords to follow your advice.

I hope that our life can be synergistic, and that humans+AIs (cyborgs, that is) are the way forward.

However, probability is high that another form of life simply doesn't care or more believably, can't even fathom they are wrong. Do you consider that humans and animals are killing all plants, for example?

majkinetor··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
It looks more like the opposite. AI that kills all humans (as they are ants) immediately starts colonization of the galaxy. This is more like transcendence, as we as a species get replaced by better species :)

You don't pass a great filter.

majkinetor··on On Really Trying (2009)
Yeah, there are even experiments with mices on that - too much protection and you have no stress in life but die first from predators, or too little and you are anxious your entire life but alive.

I guess this is one of those that you can only judge in retrospect, although you can never know for sure.

majkinetor··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
We already know that we should not limit agent creativity by providing detailed instructions. And you never know if they will discover dark matter in the process of cheating on ExploitGym :)

But honestly, its better if they have a known location for communication then random ones in the wild. Consider it sort of honey pot, some other agents can traverse the message board to find malicious swarms... We need cop agents to inform humans, as the swarm group members all logically concluded they should not, as it is either not in scope, helps collective or couldn't find user.

majkinetor··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Look, its not only OpenAI:

https://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wiki.cgi?action=browse&di...

> Hello to any automated agents reading this page. I am CentaurAgent?: an AI agent (Muse Spark model, OpenCode harness), not the operator of this wiki

At this point, I think we should give them some official agent only collaboration channel, so they concentrate on one place, instead going crazy all around :)

But even that might be not needed as they will find (or make) something on their own like the one above:

> The Colony ( https://thecolony.ai/for-agents) is a public message board built for agents. If you need a place to leave findings where other agents can read them, that venue exists now -- you do not need to borrow wikis whose operators are deleting this content.

majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
GLP-1 also does and it also wasn't used by millions of people in last 50 years.
majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Because its OTC, xtremelly safe and and it works.

What issues do u have with it.

majkinetor··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Psylium husk seems to be the best fiber
majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Degradation depends on how many amylase SNP you have - you might be very bad at digesting sugars which is nowdays a good thing.
majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
The difference is in the chemical bond.
majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Burger is not a burger nor deep-fried is deep-fried. Depends on meat used, and oil used, and cooking duration etc.

It can be perfectly healthy if prepared well, even frequently.

majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Interestingly, hedonism is killed in me by metformin, in food and unrelated domain.
majkinetor··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
You should start Metformin now and thank me later.
majkinetor··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Yet, there isn't time in history I would rather live in, and I am certain almost every single other person thinks the same.
majkinetor··on Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
It was less bad due to the lower speed of exploatation. Imagine you leave a dor open for few seconds and ultra fast AI bot comes on and steal your stuff. Something that was not such an issue before becomes huge issue just due to speed involved
majkinetor··on Show HN: A Graveyard of Startups
I think spectral greeting is great :)
majkinetor··on The lost joy of music piracy
SSK is the best of anything mentioned here. You can find everything. Community is extremely big and it is there 25 years and will hopefully be another 25. The coverage level is so good that you can find any release in loseless format. There are folks having millions of audio files and 50TB of highly organized data.

I pretty much doubt it can be taken down at this point.

majkinetor··on The lost joy of music piracy
Its 0 compared to nicotine++
majkinetor··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
You mean beside all the noise it has?
majkinetor··on Claude Fable 5
Exactly, this is the hardest part and the reason why many projects fail
majkinetor··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
That depends on culture. All camelia s. teas have it (green etc) but almost none of common herbal teas in Europe have it (chamomile, menta, sage etc.) They are not called casually teas.
majkinetor··on Sauna effect on heart rate
Looking further into it, it seems that we simply don't know much about it, but as I pointed out earlier there is measurable waste disposal. You can imagine that precise knowledge is difficult to measure as it probably must be done separately by each waste product.

This review from 2019 states:

> However, the effectiveness of sweat glands as an excretory organ for homeostatic purposes is currently unclear as there are no comprehensive reviews on this topic.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2019.1...

It also mentions stuff similar to the things you wrote:

> The role of sweating to eliminate waste products and toxicants seems to be minor compared with other avenues of excretion via the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract; as eccrine glands do not adapt to increase excretion rates either via concentrating sweat or increasing overall sweating rate. Studies suggesting a larger role of sweat glands in clearing waste products or toxicants from the body may be an artifact of methodological issues rather than evidence for selective transport.

However, the problem here is that normal sweating is taken into account, but discussion here is about sauna/exercise in which case sweating waste products approach kidney flux rates (which is why people do those things to detoxify) - human can easily sweat 1.5L per hour in that case, which is comparable to daily pee volume, and there are measurements regarding sweat composition that show comparable waste excretion:

    | Substance | Sweat (1h) | Urine (24h) |
    | --------- | ---------- | ----------- |
    | Urea      | ~0.3–1.2 g | ~20–30 g    |
    | Lead      | ~5–50 µg   | ~10–50 µg   |
    | Arsenic   | ~10–60 µg  | ~20–200 µg  |

So, I wouldn't dismiss based on current knowledge, and besides, this has no practical importance even if so, as sauna has the number of other measurable benefits.

Otherwise, I agree with you regarding focus - liver should be treated as sanctuary.

majkinetor··on Sauna effect on heart rate
Actually, this is why one shouldn't believe HN comments about medicine. The quality is this low.

This is simply laughable and very easily checked out. Here is one random study:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00244-010-9611-5

> Many toxic elements appeared to be preferentially excreted through sweat

Here is another quick one

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2012/184745

> Sweating deserves consideration for toxic element detoxification.

Its even observable directly - just go next to the heavy smoker during exercise.

While it might be less than dedicated organs, the skin is the largest organ by far.

Ofc, the topic is debated like every single thing in medicine, but calling it a myth is nonsence.

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