Rolf Selås 🇧🇻🇪🇺
@Rolfsselas
System manager/archivist,hilarious comedian, squats/lifts the dead. Politics, technology, history, spirituality and more
youtu.be/XaiQy_DdNw0?si… Min favorittfilosof for tiden, #Bernardo #Kastrup Down to earth, en sober medisin for vår tid
A lot of political discourse is just toxic, messed-up individuals who blame society for their personal problems...but you already knew that.
"The Trouble With Wanting Men" - NYT Magazine This female author, who (a) was in open marriage and then divorced her husband after deciding she wanted to be with one of her other male partners who never wanted a committed relationship with her; (b) says that men are "what is…
Bingo. The EU miscalculated with its failed “wait & see” approach to the US while cozying up to China which will give nothing in return ahead of upcoming Trump-Xi Jinping meeting. Keep in mind that the price for the lack of EU-US deal won’t be paid by bureaucrats but all of us.
Trade deals with Japan, Philippines, Indonesia Why is the EU dragging its feet? It has the easiest trade deal. Do is what Draghi and others demand: lift the EU's trade barriers. Sometimes, politicians prefer tariffs to free trade because trade barriers provide them power.
The hottest new programming language is English
The big red flag? Someone who makes fun of your confidence.
When you think about it, Universal Basic Income is inevitable.
Sam Altman tells Federal Reserve conference that entire job categories will disappear due to #AI #RiseoftheRobots theguardian.com/technology/202…
People take things personally, that are not personal at all. Just move forward with a smile like most things aren't about you - because they're usually not. Makes life & work 100x easier.
Please, someone should forward this analysis to Brussels and the European capitals who still believe in the "free choice" between two system powers - China and America. The alignment with each of them has its price. The longer they wait, the higher the price with worse options.
Ishiba isn’t resigning because of bad poll numbers or party drama. He is resigning because he became the fall guy in a much bigger game, one where Japan’s entire economic strategy hit a wall, and the United States finally called its bluff. For years, Japan survived on a mix of…
Some billionaire sociopaths warm my heart more than others
Peter Thiel: world-class entrepreneurs are typically polymaths “I think that one kind of perspective for a lot of the world-class entrepreneurs is that they’re not specialists. They’re something closer to polymaths.” Thiel continues: “If you have a conversation with Mark…
This so-called cliché is pure gold: "Thicken your skin or lower your expectations."
dagbladet.no/kjendis/avvise… Faen så fett. Stavkirker er noe av det kuleste i norsk kulturhistorie. Miks av kristendom og lokalt fremvokst håndtverk. Bygg masse kopier, melk det for det det er verdt, sier jeg. Tydelig kulturell nasjonal identitet er hyggelig, både for turister og…
I operate under the assumption that every woman wants to be left alone.
Why are men scared to talk to women?
Ideas: Make the 20s primarily for home making A concerted effort between state and faith leaders A "new deal" for population increase. Halving of house loan after child nr. 4. Discriminate in the workplace against those who choose not to have children and have no medical…
Standard of living in Poland reaching the level of Spain, Japan, Italy and the UK is a true free market economic wonder. With fertility rate getting close to 1.0 Poland urgently needs smart pro-family, and immigration policies, otherwise Polish economy and society will implode.
i mean there is no going back now, we have crossed the event horizon of the singularity
Sociopaths like this make wonderful careers because they have no shame - you need haaard elbows to outcompete these creatures. Give yourself permission or they will completely dominate the earth
Huge protests erupt in Kyiv against Ukrainian President Zelensky as he is a dictator and refuses to make a peace deal and end the war. Good for the Ukrainian people! Throw him out of office! And America must STOP funding and sending weapons!!!
Sociopaths like this make wonderful careers because they have no shame - you need haaard elbows to outcompete these creatures. Give yourself permission or they will completely dominate the earth
Huge protests erupt in Kyiv against Ukrainian President Zelensky as he is a dictator and refuses to make a peace deal and end the war. Good for the Ukrainian people! Throw him out of office! And America must STOP funding and sending weapons!!!
It can be hard to “feel the AGI” until you see an AI master a domain you care deeply about. Everyone will have their Lee Sedol moment at a different time.
the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i…
AI has been chronically overhyped until about 4 years ago, but underhyped since then:
When will an AI win a Gold Medal in the International Math Olympiad? Median predicted date over time July 2021: 2043 (22 years away) July 2022: 2029 (7 years away) July 2023: 2028 (5 years away) July 2024: 2026 (2 years away) metaculus.com/questions/6728…
EU enlargement requires real commitment from Brussels, otherwise candidates will simply drift away. We saw this in Georgia, and after today's announcements I am increasingly worried that we are seeing the same in Ukraine. More thoughts below 🔗👇
This is the Real Valinor
At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.