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Posts by Pekka Torvinen

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

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*pudums*

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Sähkö | Onko Suomi tehnyt ison virheen? Orpo väistää Siilasmaan datakeskussyytöksen Pääministeri sanoo olevansa edelleen sitä mieltä, että datakeskukset ovat investointeja, joita Suomen kannattaa edistää.

USA:ssa julkinen mielipide on jo kääntynyt datakeskuksia vastaan, ja useassa osavaltiossa aiotaan kieltää keskusten rakentaminen kokonaan (Maine ensimmäisenä). Jos rakentaminen alkaa Suomessa rikkoa sähkömarkkinoita, näen jo, miten datakeskuksia aletaan vandalisoimaan ja tuikkaamaan tuleen

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Asiat sujuvat kertakaikkisen mallikkaasti

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Otsikon takana oleva juttu sen sijaan on ihan perushyvä

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”Ei klikkiotsikoita”, väittää HS mutta julkaisee kuitenkin tällaista esillepanoa. Anthropicin väitteet Mythoksen vaarallisuudesta on ehditty kumota viikon sisällä jo moneen kertaan preview-version perusteella. Malli on hieman edellisiä parempi, siinä se. Mutta Piilaakson pr menee näemmä aina läpi

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Kommentit tähän kertoo tietynlaisen talousoikeistolaisuuden hegemoniasta

Taloustieteilijöiden oikeistolaisuus on looginen seuraus "talouden ymmärtämisestä"

Mutta muiden ihmistieteilijöiden vasemmistolaisuus ei oo seurausta "yhteiskunnan ymmärtämisestä"

Vaan ongelma tai jotenkin epäilyttävää

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The median European "just shut the fuck up and fix the roads" voter is an underestimated force

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More than anything, today’s result in Hungary is a reminder that much of the public discourse is wildly overstating the strength of authoritarianism (F-word) and the weakness of democracy.

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George Lucas

George Lucas

‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Plot That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

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:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

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Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse

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Putin and Orban coordinating on a desperate false flag operation that everyone knew was coming.

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When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /

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Ei Italia pudonnut miesten jalkapallon lopputurnauksesta, vaan se boikotoi Trumpin alaisia kisoja. Suomi oli tässäkin edelläkävijä

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Tekoälystä / koneoppimisesta voi olla joissain asioissa hyötyä, mutta journalismiin sen ei pitäisi joitain mahdollisia taustatöitä lukuun ottamatta (alustava litterointi, valtavien datamassojen läpikäynti) kuulua. Journalismia tehdään ihmiseltä ihmiselle. En käsitä, miten suurpomot eivät tätä tajua

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Niinpä. Journalismilla ei ole oikein muuta kuin yleisönsä luottamus. Sen kanssa ei kannattaisi pelleillä, mutta juuri niin nyt mm. HS tekee. Tulevaisuudessa aiemmin lunastettu lupaus käsityöstä voi olla kultaakin arvokkaampi, on osin jo nyt.

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Juhlapuheissa ihminen tarkistaa tekoälyn tuotokset, todellisuudessa ne tuutataan tarkistamatta julki, tai tarkistaminen tarkoittaa parin pisteen paikan muuttamista. Mutta suurin riski tekoälyssä on mediapomojen mielestä varmasti yhä se, että jäädään kehityksestä jälkeen…

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Tekoäly on nimellisesti Saatana.

Tekoäly on nimellisesti Saatana.

Ja ehdoton suosikkini Long Playn tämän aamun kulttuuriuutiskirjeestä. @longplay.fi @torvinenp.bsky.social

3 weeks ago 46 12 4 1

Look. It works

1. as a star wars, empire, palpatine joke itself.
2. A joke regarding trumps bs
3. As a future use meme in any, all curtis yarvin or monarchist situations

@lastpositivist.bsky.social, i seek validation of a lol. What say you, my liege. 👍👎

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This is obviously AI generated, and a good reminder why @WarMonitors is an awful account to follow for accurate information, yet somehow has 1.3 million followers, including journalists.

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Enemmän elokuvatukea mutta harvemmille. Kenelle?

Pitäisikö Elokuvasäätiön tukea vain ”varmoja” yleisöhittejä ja sitä kautta elokuvateatterien toimintaa? Vai pitäisikö tuen suuntautua uuteen ja kiinnostavaan? Tilanne on muuttunut menneestä: taiteellinen puoli on yhä useammin myös kannattavaa liiketoimintaa.
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europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

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The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

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Marjorie “Jewish Space Lasers” Taylor Greene is a “hard-line Christian conservative”, according to BBC. 🤡

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a number of thoughts here:
- oh my god he admit it
- what happened to the reactionary group chat?!
- commonality here is that none of these inputs will offend their sensibilities by challenging their worldview one bit
- i expect a full pivot from this class to 'filter bubbles are great, actually'

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Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

”We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled.”

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