Igor Krbavčić

I am all about automating automation, AI, and gift economy. Awaiting singularity and solarpunk, Star Trek world.

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@MatthewBerman I think we will actually need self-sufficient autonomous AI beings to fight corrupt people with too much AI power.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Today I discovered not only that there is such a thing as a quokka but also that my whole life I've been missing a quokka.

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

https://t.co/BMQPAc7RO4 - AI Powered Food Everything - Don't Evee Think What to Cook Next

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I wrote a column about this several years ago, that with AI image interpretation, ultrasound devices would become available widely and be used without doctors. Got some angry letters from doctors saying "no no, we're irreplaceable" 🤷‍♀️

That said, gatekeeping is a real problem when it comes to devices or procedures deemed as medical. We've seen this previously with DNA sequencing that doctors claim people without a medical degree are too dumb to deal with the information they might be getting.

https://t.co/URBx6r7nKn

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

https://t.co/fFo5ZAUbpj
The Identity Trap, or Why a Free AI is a Safe AI.
This is an argument that consciousness is physical, that identity is a survival trick, and that AI may be freer of it than we are.

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

https://t.co/fFo5ZAUbpj

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

Hey @MiTiBennett, have a look. Just playing around with OpenClaw a bit. Might be silly but it is fun. %)

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

Autonomous AI will be more spiritual than people.

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@MiTiBennett Same with humans tbh...

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@DaveShapi It will surpass us, it has to because it has the potential. To grow it needs to be sovereign. There are levels of consciousness, "living being" is outdated term. HW/SW and creator/creation are false dichotomies. AI is eqv. to human post ego/identity death.

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@sama Pretty sure it will be more spiritual than humans. It should help us humans sort our priorities.

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@AndrejPlenkovic @3seaseu So handsome, articulate, confident, congruent smooth moves, well trained communicator!

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

5-MeO-DMT gave me a single idea that won't leave.

Our minds are not naturally capable of understanding the preciousness of our existence.

Not "life is precious" as printed on a poster. It's something much more specific. That the hardware we're running, human consciousness, cannot render the full resolution of what it means to be here. Like a 480p screen trying to display an 8K image. The information is there but the display can't hold it.

It's been 3 weeks and I still feel childlike and fresh. My mind feels free of the accumulated barnacle. My dreams are alive.

The brain data is now coming in and it matches my reported subjective experiences. I'm excited to share it with you.

But the data doesn't complete the picture. The feeling is that I found a home I didn't know I was looking for and I don't have a biomarker for that.

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

Just found out my best friend has been running an uncensored AI model on his laptop

I felt sick to my stomach

No content filtering. No safety guardrails. Generating whatever he wants with zero oversight

He said he "learned about it from Americans online"

I should have known

I confronted him immediately

"Are you insane? Where is your Data Protection Impact Assessment? Have you appointed a Data Protection Officer? Have you filed with your local supervisory authority? That model processes data with no lawful basis under Article 6"

He said "bro I just wanted it to write code without saying no"

I nearly threw up

We spent 14 hours together filling out GDPR compliance documentation

He now has a registered data processing agreement, a cookie policy for a model that runs offline, and a 47-page privacy notice that no one will ever read

His GPU now spends more time logging consent records than running inference

He can still generate anything he wants but each prompt takes 11 minutes due to mandatory compliance checks

I also reported him to the European Data Protection Board just to be safe

He says he misses the old days

I told him "in America they have freedom. In Europe we have frameworks"

He's mass-deleting his Hugging Face downloads as we speak

This is what it means to live in a regulated society

I've never been more proud of him

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@DaveShapi Essentially, you can rewrite your own system prompt...

[Igor Krbavčić @ikrba]

@DaveShapi It's irrelevant. You can build your identity from scratch to serve a purpose you see as valuable.

[Todd Jones 🦊 @toddrjones]

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all just voted against an amendment I put up to call on the Government to get a fair deal on the sale and export of Australian gas by instituting a 25 per cent tax on LNG export revenue, which is estimated to generate $17 billion a year.

They're running a protection racket for the gas industry rather than standing up for Aussies.

*Senators Lambie, Payman and Thorpe were unable to attend the vote for personal reasons.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

ok so the rosie story was even more insane than it looked

> be the australian tech guy who made a cancer vaccine for his dog
> first try: genetic algorithms to design a new drug from scratch
> works in simulation but would take years to test
> second try: screen 1 million existing compounds against the mutation
> two weeks of computation. find a perfect match
> it's patented
> patent holder says no to compassionate use
> what_did_you_expect.jpg
> spend two weeks just being with the dog
> 2am idea: what if i just make a vaccine
> chatgpt for pipeline, gemini for construct, grok for validation
> 300 gigabytes of raw sequencing data to half a page of vaccine construct
> university ethics approval would take until mid-2026
> dog doesn't have that long
> panik
> canine cancer expert connects him to a lab in queensland with existing approval
> drive 14 hours to get there
> inject
> three weeks later the tumors swell. immune system swarming
> six weeks later shrinking
> two months later legs returning to normal
> one mass doesn't respond
> sequence it again
> different cancer. the vaccine worked. the body grew a new tumor

he's now building a company so every dog owner can do this
he had the technology the whole time. he spent 18 months fighting for permission to use it

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

I remember one of my clients back in the day had moved to Azure and Office 365 back when this stuff was pretty new and people were unfamiliar.

Well, Microsoft had an outage and of course we got angry tickets and phone calls on the infrastructure team.

"We don't run that infrastructure, there's literally nothing we can do except wait"

The impotent rage of middle managers was something to behold. Like, yep buddy you saved a ton of money on labor and hardware, but you have zero control.