Knut Åbjørsbråten

Small lump of cells in a large universe. To be frozen when dead (http:/kryonikk.no). Developer, M.D., scientist. Shot lasers at cells. Make things. Plays games.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

Breaking physics news: source of all entropy discovered

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@theo This @AnthropicAI

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

Friendly reminder that the real star of the show is in machine learning, compute and scale. The thing that builds your children’s first house will not necessarily be made by OpenAI or Anthropic.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@valvesoftware / @Ubisoft : AC Black Flag Resynced does not appear to work on the Steam Deck? After logo video audio plays but screen is black. Hotfix/experimental proton does not work. WindowMode=2 and 1 does not work. Latest OS.

100% not Steam Deck verified after all?

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@BatsouElef https://t.co/q7Ltae4WD1 👀

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@tomorrowbio It has a surprising number of fans

[Emil Kendziorra, M.D. @emilkendziorra]

Roughly half the people who read about what I do think I'm a visionary. The other half think I'm selling expensive hope to people afraid of dying. I'd like to hear from both today.

The facts first. At Tomorrow Bio we preserve people at the time of death by cooling the body within minutes, replacing the blood with a cryoprotectant so ice doesn't shred brain tissue, and storing it at -196°C. Our scans show around 98% of the brain stays largely ice-free.

Now the part critics seize on, and they're not wrong to: I cannot promise any of them will ever wake up. Reviving a preserved brain requires technology that does not yet exist and may never exist. To me that is still a chance greater than zero, against the zero that cremation and burial offer. To others it's spending a fortune on a story.

So tell me which camp you're in. Is this a rational hedge against a permanent end, or wishful thinking dressed up as science?

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

You need to reduce the cost of your premium model and make it viable to use on the Max plan. I’m surprised to find myself trying other models and harnesses. I’ve stayed with you since you had the best model and it was within reach financially. Now Opus has real competition at lower price, and the Max deal is no longer good.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

We’re getting towards a point where the AIs are getting scary. I already feel it in bouts – looking at it when it reaches super human is staring in the face of something as mighty as the sun.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

The Fable 5 cost and removal from Max plan made me look at alternatives to Claude Code. Turns out OpenCode work ok too, actually. Thanks @AnthropicAI, I guess?

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@MaximeRivest It's well worn, because it's true: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Clarke's 3rd law (https://t.co/HsWCvtFgqg)

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@Tascharoe If we meet England next, think the whole rowing thing will go down better with them this time than the last? 👀

Been a while though. Maybe they forgot.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@nickchapsas Wonder if that rowing thing will go down better in England than the last time 👀

[Framework @FrameworkPuter]

If you think Windows is a pain as a consumer, try working with it as a computer maker…

We’re very happy to see Linux (and BSD) adoption continue to grow as a % of new users picking up Framework Laptops and Desktops, even as our sales volume continues to increase.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Why @AnthropicAI might not sustain this price level. The peri-Opus 4.8 space now has cheap models from many providers. The reason to stick with Anthropic would soon be Fable/Mythos (given they are better). If priced beyond the Max, plan *many* customers will start to churn out.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@tomorrowbio They are obvious into longevity

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

Choose: sing it for 2 hours and wait, or nearly as good a model (Opus, or it's competitors?) for twice that, which means I never have to stop. It's mariganlly better, but it doesnt fit the workflow. Critically, competiition heats up in the peri-Opus 4.8 space, so unless @AnthropicAI offers Fabel at lower cost, I cant justify Claude.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@elonmusk

[Tomorrow Biostasis @tomorrowbio]

Did you know that the average human lifespan is 73.8 years?

Life extension works on the years we have.
Cryonics keeps a door open for the ones we might not.

[Knut Åbjørsbråten @knutsi]

@FrameworkPuter Linux is in a good place. Thinking nostagically about how it has changed since I installed RedHat CDs back in the day, but if I was just starting out with computers today, id find it such a treat.