Kent Pedersen

@sama What is the obession about 4o?

i keep thinking i want the models to be cheaper/faster more than i want them to be smarter but it seems that just being smarter is still the most important thing

Thats why we need economic democracy now. Then we can finally pursue the higher goals of human life, instead of being slaves for the Epstein class. I salute the emergence of AGI. Finally we can see and end to the endless unnecessary suffering. Lets believe in the good of humanity, then it will all end up being good. And really Codex is soo good…

"post-AGI, no one is going to work and the economy is going to collapse" "i am switching to polyphasic sleep because GPT-5.5 in codex is so good that i can't afford to be sleeping for such long stretches and miss out on working"

Economic democracy is one of the central ideas in PROUT. Voting rights alone are not enough if economic power stays in the hands of a few. Real democracy must also mean guaranteed basic necessities, rising purchasing capacity, and local control over local economic life. A short visual explainer from a PROUT perspective. #PROUT #EconomicDemocracy #Decentralization #Democracy #PRSarkar

This is not a crisis. It is system behaviour. Another system is possible. Test it. Link: claritynchaos.com/Civilisation_C… #SystemChange #SystemsThinking #EconomicDemocracy #Simulation #FutureOfSociety #PROUT

open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… What is happening in Burkina Faso raises a question the world should not ignore. Not because it fits neatly into one camp or another, but because it brings into focus a question much of the world is trying to avoid. Can a country break from foreign domination without falling into repression at home? That is the real issue now around Ibrahim Traoré and Burkina Faso. I have put together a new article on this, not as a defence of the government, and not as a lazy condemnation from a safe distance, but as an attempt to face the contradiction honestly. The country is under real pressure. The insurgency is real. The anger at foreign interference is real. But if sovereignty comes to mean dissolved parties, silenced critics, intimidated journalists and civilians trapped between jihadist violence and state abuse, then freedom has still not arrived. That is the line I try to examine in this article. #BurkinaFaso #IbrahimTraore #Sahel #WestAfrica #AfricanPolitics #Sovereignty #HumanRights #AntiColonialism #Geopolitics #WarAndPeace #Freedom #Democracy

War Signal Clarity is now live. claritynchaos.com/#/chatbots In a time of fear, hype, and constant war talk, people need help separating real warning signs from noise. This chatbot is built to assess military headlines calmly and distinguish between: routine activity, signalling, active escalation, and genuine warning signs. #ClarityInChaos #WarSignalClarity #SignalNotNoise #Prout #Neohumanism

Back in 2003, a German film crew filming in the Gobi Desert captured an incredibly moving moment: after a tough two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn. A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos singing ritual passed down for generations. Once the song ended, the camel shed tears and finally accepted her baby. This powerful scene became one of the most memorable parts of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel.

Africa was not only plundered for land, labour, and resources. open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… Its knowledge was plundered too. Again and again, African medicinal, ecological, agricultural, artistic, and social knowledge was extracted without equal recognition, then turned into material for someone else’s archive, theory, laboratory, or profit. My new article examines this long theft of knowledge through the Asante case in present-day Ghana. #Colonialism #AfricanHistory #Asante #Ghana #IndigenousKnowledge #Bioprospecting #EpistemicJustice

I have just published an essay on a question that matters across all spiritual traditions: what happens when leaders become more attached to position than to principle? It is about office, moral authority, institutional integrity, rotation, accountability, and the difference between service and privilege. Grounded in scholarship and long personal experience, it reflects on how spiritual organizations function — and how they decline. Written with deep respect for genuine spiritual leadership. academia.edu/165566644/Offi… #LeadershipEthics #InstitutionalIntegrity #SpiritualLeadership #Ethics

Before taking a claim at face value - claritynchaos.com/Claim_Verifica… A rule-based tool, not an AI one, for spotting claims that may need more checking before you trust them. I made this because I got fed up with how often people say things in a way that makes them sound more solid than they are. A lot of claims are not clearly false, but they still should not just be swallowed whole. Some are weak. Some are vague. Some hide behind phrases like “experts say” or “people are saying”. Some are just dressed up to sound more certain than they really are. That is what this tool is for. Claim Verification Assessor looks for statements that may need more scrutiny before you take them as factual, reliable, or worth acting on. It can catch things like unsupported claims, vague sourcing, rumour framing, insinuation, overgeneralising, and other patterns that often slip through because they sound confident enough. One thing I like about it is that it is not AI-based. It is rule-based. So it is not just chucking out mysterious verdicts. It works from visible logic. The point is not to replace your judgement, but to help you use it a bit better. It is not here to tell you what is true. It is here to make it easier to stop and think, hold on, does this really stand up? That is really the whole idea. #ClaimScrutinyAnalyzer #CriticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #ThinkBeforeYouBelieve

open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… Not a fake veteran, something more politically revealing: a self-mythologizing public figure who turns service into spectacle, prestige, and coercive legitimacy. My latest on Pete Hegseth through a PROUT and Neohumanist lens.

First schools. Then hospitals. Then universities. Step by step, the unthinkable is being normalized. We are watching the boundaries of conscience collapse in real time. When places of learning are bombed, no slogan about security can wash away the stain. This is the corruption of power at its ugliest. #UniversitiesAreNotTargets #SilenceIsComplicity #TruthAgainstPower #HumanityFirst nytimes.com/2026/03/30/wor…

open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… New article: A Proutist Use of Blockchain: From Speculative Tokens to Cooperative Ledgers Not “how can blockchain create value?” But: how could distributed ledgers support local self-sufficiency, rational distribution, cooperative planning, and anti-exploitation in a PROUT framework? #PROUT #Blockchain #Cooperatives #Decentralisation #EconomicDemocracy #AlternativeEconomics #LocalSelfSufficiency #PoliticalEconomy #TechnologyAndSociety #Crypto

The barbarians did not disappear. They learned to govern. Small men with large weapons. Polished language. Clean hands. Dirty consequences. This is the age of respectable barbarism. #Power #War #PROUT #SystemChange

open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… Ghana has forced the world to name a historic truth. The transatlantic slave trade is now recognised at the United Nations as the gravest crime against humanity. But the deeper question is this: Did Africa’s exploitation ever really end? Today, wealth still leaves the continent through debt, trade structures, illicit financial flows, and global systems that favour extraction over development. I have written a thorough article exploring these connections between slavery, colonialism, and present-day economic realities. The chains changed shape. The system remains.

open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… I wrote this because too much writing on “Proutist Iran” is really just projection dressed up as planning. A serious approach must begin from below: local realities, ecological limits, and economic democracy. Iran, PROUT, and the Difference Between Planning and Projection Hashtags: #Iran #PROUT #EconomicDemocracy #Decentralization #RegionalPlanning #WaterCrisis #AntiExploitation

I have been building a PROUT-inspired interactive toolkit with simulators, a regional planning game, and offline community apps to make the ideas testable through direct experience. Here is what is new: open.substack.com/pub/karmeshvar… #PROUT #EconomicDemocracy #Cooperatives #SystemsThinking #CivicTech #Simulation #CommunityDevelopment #Decentralisation #Sustainability