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Oden

@odense.bsky.social
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Cognitive scientist, AI and human intelligence researcher. Ph.D. student in computer science. Against All Authoritarians. 🇸🇪

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15m
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 6h
This is getting a lot of quotes, so I feel I should correct this a bit (sorry @anildash.com!) “AI” was 100% born toxic! The first AI workshop was born from the field of “automata studies”, and…1/ (Pictured: the folks who convened for the first workshop. Notice anything notable here?)
A group of white men, sitting on the grass and smiling at the photographer. Black and white photo (1956).
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 2h
C'mon, doggos! They are full of food. Go get them robotors!
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2h
Donate the $500 bribe to a public library and post widely about it.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h
The world has nearly burned through its oil stockpile buffer, executives say reut.rs/4sa0MMN
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The world has nearly burned through its oil stockpile buffer, executives say
The amount of oil in storage that is accessible to the global market is running low, ‌industry executives said at a forum in London this week, making the market more fragile and putting upward pressure on prices.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11h
Former German spy chief arrested for treason ft.trib.al/vePDUVk
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Former German spy chief arrested for treason
Former intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to a foreign power
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h
for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled.
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 23h
Yang wen-li, a character from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, saying in two panels "I believe that being ruled by the worst democracy is preferable to being ruled by the best autocracy"
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some day all the bad old ones will be gone. Unfortunately there will be new bad ones, but at least all the old bad ones will disappear.
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Nonso Obikili @nonsoobikili.com · 05/10/2026
"Gary Marcus, a prominent AI sceptic and professor emeritus at New York University, said Altman was “saying the quiet part out loud: suck it up, so you can make us rich and powerful”." Eish. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have been reading Gil's book. It is very good. I highly recommend!
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is very billionaire-brain coded to think that efficiency matters more than self-determination and the humanity of our species, as a whole and as individuals. IDGAF about efficiency. I care about anti-corruption, and outright waste, but not "extreme efficiency" at all.
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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reuters Editors Understood the Assignment.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jag ska titta på den!
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 05/10/2026
The film is also now available to audiences in Denmark, Sweden and Belgium. Denmark: www.dr.dk/drtv/program... Sweden: www.svtplay.se/sok?q=Killin... Belgium: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/k...
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DRTV - Dæknavn: Anna - jagten på en krigsforbryder
Hun risikerer alt for at afsløre sandheden om et af verdens mest brutale regimer. En syrisk akademiker i Amsterdam modtager en uhyrlig video af en massakre på civile begået af en ukendt officer. Hun b...
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇸🇪 Sweden has suspended the Russian Orthodox Church from the work of the country's Christian Council due to its ties to Russia, — Dagen. The main reason for the decision was the Moscow Patriarchate's ties to the Russian state and the security situation.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have made language models with public domain data. Sure, not giga-scale models, but models nonetheless. I never needed to steal other people's work. I think the way forward is teaching AI about the world directly, not about a meta-world of text-about-the-world. Nobody needs to steal to make AI.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I had some hopes for the Ford Lightning when it was being tested in Norway. But it maybe seems to have vanished?
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If I could buy an American BEV pickup here in Sweden, then I would, if I could afford it of course. My current American ICE pickup is more than 10 years old. Maybe by the time I can afford one they will be available here. I’m not kidding. I would buy one.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On X, mostly. From Grok, mostly.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is every cult also a sex cult? Or are there some cults that are just, like, death cults, but there is no sex involved?
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Details outlined by Chancellor Merz during the briefing confirmed that the €1 billion ($1.13 billion) military component prioritizes long-range standoff capabilities and advanced communications to allow Ukrainian forces to target Russian launch installations directly." www.kyivpost.com/post/86083
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Merz Unveils €1.3B Ukraine Aid Package, €8.5B in Deals
Berlin pledged €1B in military aid and €350M for energy repairs alongside plans for a trilateral Berlin summit with London and Paris.
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026
"unlike my main competitor I specifically believe our products justify some suffering" is not very good marketing
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places reut.rs/4zbUkqB
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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places
Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of ​AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without their knowledge.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You'd need like one 12' ladder from Home Depot to get over the wall!
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just looked it up, and I love that it is just like some 2-storey house in the middle of a field. Having lived in the shadow of a medieval castle for a substantial portion of my life, the KY castle is very tiny and cute and silly to me. Like, it is barely bigger than the mcmansion behind it!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026
I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We need to go back to the way things were.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, I am not upset at anyone. I just think it is funny.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Git em, New Mexico!
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More reasons to prefer LibreOffice over all the rest.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because I am tired of shaving? Yes, because I am tired of shaving. I will trim it with the hair clippers, and that is all.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism
Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Invoking the heresy that denies Jesus's divinity ("need to hear it from god", "you had no idea what was coming") is a sure-fire way to get all the Xians on their side! Maybe the Pope will see it their way now! (to be clear, I am an atheist; not stating this as my own belief; not that it matters)
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
German chancellor Merz has arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine this morning. At his arrival he made following statement: „Ukraine is facing decisive weeks. That is why I traveled to Kyiv today with the message: You can rely on us.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Would I have gotten wrapped up in all this EA/AI safety stuff? Who knows! I didn't, so that is evidence that I wouldn't. But I went my own way on AI. I went into maths, and then cog sci, and then comp sci, and now a Phd program. But I could imagine having been sucked into the other side of all this.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks for these, Frances. I am super interested in these as well. I used to be, like 20-ish years ago, I would say (damn, I was so young then), of OB with Hansen and Yud, and then a little on LW and SSC before going my own way. I can just imagine myself if I had not taken a different path.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I like that they are XL, for that XL-sized ass.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/10/2026
I think this does a good job of expressing my #1 problem with the effective altruist approach: the sheer hubris associated with a lot of how it presently operates. And modesty and humility are the cures.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nothing new here either, but I've personally been fascinated by people who looked at LLM generated text in 2022/2023 and saw AGI, and who look at LLM generated text today and...also see AGI.
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tante @tante.cc · 04/10/2026
Bluesky's head of trust and safety runs all replies through an LLM to decide who to block which leads to him creating a perfect sycophantic bubble for himself. Someone really does not understand his job. Bluesky Corp is a clown show.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love this humility as well: "grow artificial minds that could be smarter than we are ..." To me, this is an important perspective as a scientist. I am personally a reasonably strong believer that AGI smarts will surpass us some day, but so far it is 100% speculation and philosophical possibility.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Det var många fåglar vid Hornborgasjön idag. Lite svårt att se eftersom min kamera är inte jättebra. Det är underbart.
Hornborgasjön. Hundratals fåglar.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I watch very little TV, going back 20 years (not trying to be a snob, just never felt like I had time to). To this day, I think Neuromancer is one of the most innovative works of art that anyone has ever produced. I *truly* cannot wait.
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Oden @odense.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I truly cannot wait.
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