I'v been heads down in building a foundation for how apps should made in the future. TLDR: Apps are ephemeral, created on the spot to solve a problem right now. What needs to remain is the data

I just tried OpenAI o1. I wanted to test its ability to reason about a genuinely new scientific idea. Although it was fun, it illustrated to me that o1 still can't think outside the box in the way that is needed to generate genuinely new understanding. The conversation was about panpsychism. I asked o1 to help me think about how hypothetical proto-consciousness features of elementary particles could be formulated to explain particle properties that are otherwise considered fundamental, such as mass, spin, or charge. proto-consciousness -> mass, spin, charge, etc In it's response, it kept falling back to wanting to derive proto-consciousness from fundamental principles, rather than the other way around, implicitly falling into emergentist reasoning. So, o1 is certainly great at exploring current human knowledge, but I doubt it is useful for generating new knowledge in the true sense of the word. Human creativity, inspiration, and genius still have a role to play - at least for now.

I am really afraid of the term "hate speech". It seems designed to fertilize the ground for censorship. Just like "verbal violence", and other such lingo.

Oh no! You didn't seriously write to Elon Musk and ask him to censor the live interview with Donald Trump? How could you do something so incredibly silly and destructive? In public and in the name of the EU trying to interfere with the presidential election in the US😳

Hvis DSB fløj med flyvemaskiner, ville du så flyve med?

The forgotten crook behind the rise of nazism? In 1919, the newly formed Weimar Republic adopted a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, assembly, etc. As the economic crisis deepened in the 1930s, President Hindenburg began to curtail these freedoms to suppress the growing support for communism and Nazism among the lower classes. He increasingly ruled by decree. People were jailed for their opinions, and the dissent and despair that fueled communism and Nazism were pushed underground. We will never know for certain, but I find it unlikely that the Nazi party could have done so well in 1933 without the authoritarian backdrop of Hindenburg's suppression of civil liberties.

With Ukraine's incursion into Kursk, Putin has achieved his goal of putting more land between Russia and NATO. Can we stop the war now, please 🕊️

On July 28 1997 the stock price of Intel passed $20 for the first time. It was the year the Pentium II was launched. Today, the stock price passed $20 once again. Which means that if you invested $100 in Intel 27 years ago, you would have $100 worth of shares today.🤨

On this one I'm with Elon. Electronic voting undermines trust in democracy, fraud or not. Let's *never* have electronic voting here in Denmark.

"Some experts argue that proportional representation has produced more social democratic politics in Wales and Scotland, but others say it could also be a pathway for extremist politics, as has happened in some places in Europe." - @guardian I guess we are supposed to be scared of one or the other. I just call that phenomenon democracy: Get as many people's voice heard in politics as possible. Proportional representation ensures that. The politicians will take a while to get used to power not being binary, but a balance. But in the long run, PR ensures an engaging and inclusive democracy.

Once upon a time in America