iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 26/07/2025

Nykyinen valtava velanotto vaatii kovaa talouskasvua tai koko yhteiskunta kaatuu velkataakan alle. Jos haluttaisiin vähemmän kasvua ja samalla hyvinvointipalvelujen säilyttämistä, velkaongelma pitäisi ratkaista ensin.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 06/06/2025

At the current rate, you can recognize a text being written with AI from the fact that it has more than one sentence of text by next year.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 31/05/2025

Anthropic went from $1B ARR in December to $3B now. We are seeing completely new levels of growth for the winners in the AI race.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 15/05/2025

Jos lääkärit tekevät vielä tuollaista työtä, ei tekoälyä ole osattu tai haluttu ottaa käyttöön. Nämä ovat jo suhteellisen triviaaleja ongelmia ratkaistavaksi.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 15/05/2025

Kieltämättä kuulostaa erikoiselta, että vuonna 2025 jossain organisaatiossa on liuta täysipäiväisiä tekstinkäsittelijöitä duunissa 🤯

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 12/05/2025

WSJ comments on the Finnish government's effort to stimulate the economy to fund the defense budget. I fully agree that the 52% top rate is too high, and I also agree that it is applied at a middle-class level income, capping Finland's potential to attract top talent to work in Finland.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 12/05/2025

Well AI scales it to the next level!

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/05/2025

Updated state of AI cartoon. Accurate.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 06/05/2025

The AI coding wars are heating up! Anthropic has dominated the AI coding space for the past year, so OpenAI decided to get involved to guarantee a seat in the contest. What do you think, will OpenAI be able to catch up?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 05/05/2025

It has come to this: After Zuck literally owning the social networking market for the past decade and a half, people now have, on average, less than three good friends. Now he says we should make friends with a dozen bots instead to compensate for the lack of friends. futurism.com/zuckerberg-l...

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Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 20/04/2025

Pitääpä laittaa kuunteluun!

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 19/04/2025

Tästä samaa mieltä! Jokaiselle pitäisi myös antaa samalla ilmainen Y-tunnus ja ilmainen kirjanpito, jolloin kuka tahansa voi tehdä haluamansa määrän mitä tahansa työtä kenelle tahansa rahaa vastaan ilman että hänen tarvitsee pelätä pohjan putoamista.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 14/04/2025

Uskoisin, että Trumpin politiikka näkyy persujen kannatuksessa.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 08/04/2025

Incredibly stupid, but true: With the tariffs,Trump has also made it too costly to manufacture anything for export purposes in the US.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 08/04/2025

Kelan johtajien valintaprosessi on ollut aina mystinen.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

Veikkaan että Trumpin sekoilut laittaa äärioikeiston kannatuksen laskuun Euroopassa.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

USA represents less than 15% of all exports from China. It is entirely possible that CCP uses this opportunity to end trade with the US and invade Taiwan. They will then also cut the supply of rare earths to US, creating massive damage in the process. Trump clearly doesn't know what he's doing.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

I really like these predictions.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

Well, they are definitely on a trajectory toward both less money and less power.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

Agree, provided that there's some reasonable kind of rule of law left in the US then.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

Exactly. This is apparently too hard for the current administration to understand 🤦

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 07/04/2025

The actual tariffs already were reciprocal with most countries. The trade deficits existed because the US has more money than other countries, so it was inevitable that there would be trade imbalances. Now the US is trying to level the field by making itself poor.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 03/04/2025

Toistaiseksi Trump ei ole toteuttanut mitään mikä on Venäjän vastaista, hön on muutaman kerran sanonut jotain mutta tekojen puolesta en ole nähnyt ainoatakaan.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 03/04/2025

Venäjälle ei laitettu tulleja.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 03/04/2025

Corsaren on X figured out how Trump came up with the tariff numbers. He simply called the US trade deficit with each trading partner a "tariff" to make the US tariffs look reciprocal. Notably, Russia did not get any tariffs.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 01/04/2025

Hegseth thinks future wars will be won with bigger muscles 😂

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 30/03/2025

We Finns, like most Eastern flank countries, are both thankful and supportive to the extent of our abilities. We also invest aggressively on our defense capabilities. We specifically need the western and southern Europe to step up.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 30/03/2025

Europe should take the lead on progressing science now that the Trump administration is denying it from American universities.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 27/03/2025

Todella merkittävä osa kaikista sote-palveluista voidaan tarjota paremmalla laadulla ja murto-osalla nykyisistä kustannuksista tekoälyä hyödyntämällä. Palvelujen heikentäminen on siksi valinta jota ei olisi pakko tehdä.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 26/03/2025

Yes, and we will have to take charge of our destiny by becoming militarily self-sufficient and work together to win in Ukraine.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 26/03/2025

Love the complete non-existence of self-awareness from Witkoff.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 25/03/2025

Näin se on, valitettavasti.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 25/03/2025

He was likely getting Putin's approval for the attacks.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 24/03/2025

It's prudent to assume everything has already been leaked to Putin.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 24/03/2025

American leadership has proven to have animosity against Europe. They have also proven to support Putin's Russia. We live in strange times.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 24/03/2025

Recklessness doesn't even begin to describe this.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 22/03/2025

Toisaalta jos kaikki pienyritykset maakunnissa lopetetaan, koska jälkipolvella ei ole varaa jatkaa, varallisuus tippuu varmemmin.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 22/03/2025

We also need a sovereign European satellite internet to rival Starlink. The earlier the better.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 22/03/2025

Trump is making sure no country buys anything from the American military industrial complex anymore. Great sales pitch!

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 21/03/2025

Broad availability of studies in English language will definitely attract students from all over the world.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 20/03/2025

Who would have thought that European countries have to issue travel warnings to the US due to citizens being detained on the border for their personal worldviews?

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 20/03/2025

It's hard to fathom but it's becoming dangerous to visit the US. You may be detained at the border for no reason.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 20/03/2025

Minun mielestäni demokratia loppui Turkissa jo vuosia sitten, kun Erdogan järjesti false flag vallankaappaus-näytöksen jonka avulla hän heitti kaikki vastustajat pois pelistä.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 17/03/2025

Europe is behind, but today's state of AI allows us to catch up with the American and Chinese options quickly. We need to increase our ambition level and stop being dependent on others. Regulation can't be the only thing Europe leads in. techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/e...

techcrunch.com

European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local | TechCrunch

A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe's tech industry is calling for "radical action" from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance

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Ville Takanen @villetakanen.com · 17/03/2025

I've been thinking a lot about what might be the missing piece for the agentic AI. Which has led me astray from the key point @alasaarela.com seems to imply. The emergence of full AI agency is imminent. Too much money and time is spent trying to discover the missing bits, for it not to be.

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Mikko Alasaarela @alasaarela.com · 17/03/2025

Exactly. That is the right conclusion. AGI is inevitable, and it is going to happen soon. Missing the estimate a few months or even years doesn't change anything. Assuming it won't happen is just fooling yourself.

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