Rasmus Andersson, PhD

Tech is re-emerging into the physical world as digital technologies conquer everything else. Read my latest piece here: compulartech.com/2023/04/techs-…

@ChristerSfeir @GoeranLeonidas Hade inte Muhammed några söner?

@GoeranLeonidas Blodlinjen och historiken var avgörande.

Kids, nu blir det söndagsskola med farbror Sfeir. Idag ska det handla om splittringen inom islam i sunni och shia. Det började inte som en teologisk konflikt utan som en maktkamp. När profeten Muhammed dog år 632 lämnade han efter sig ett snabbt växande rike men ingen entydig instruktion om vem som skulle ta över, därför uppstod den fråga som skulle forma 1 400 års historia: Vem har rätt att leda de troende efter profeten? Den ena sidan menade att ledaren skulle väljas bland profetens närmaste följeslagare. Dessa kom att bli sunniter, från arabiskan ahl al-sunnah, “de som följer profetens tradition”. Den andra sidan menade att ledarskapet borde tillfalla Ali, profetens kusin och svärson, och hans blodslinje. Dessa blev shia, från arabiskan shīʿat ʿAlī, “Alis anhängare”. Det som började som en tronföljdskris hårdnade till öppen konflikt. Ali blev till slut kalif, men hans styre präglades av inbördeskrig. Efter hans död tog rivalen Muawiya makten och grundade det umayyadiska kalifatet. Den definitiva brytpunkten kom år 680 vid Karbala, när Alis son Husayn dödades tillsammans med sina följeslagare efter att ha rest sig mot kalifen Yazid. För shia blev detta inte bara ett nederlag, utan ett heligt martyrdrama, kärnan i deras religiösa självförståelse. Därifrån växte två traditioner fram: en sunnitisk huvudfåra byggd kring konsensus och tradition och en shiitisk tradition byggd kring rättmätigt ledarskap, martyrskap och imamernas särskilda ställning. Sunni och shia började inte som en tvist om hur man ber, utan som en strid om vem som hade rätt att ärva makten efter profeten Muhammed. Vad som i dag framstår som teologi började som politik.

The collective meltdown among most at the far right regarding Péter Magyar's resounding victory in Hungary is probably the most telling moment you will see regarding the so-called "conservative" or "patriotic" movements across the globe. I will elaborate: Péter Magyar is not a lefty or woke. His ideology is center-right. Tisza will partially follow an even harsher immigration policy and continue some decisions made under Orban, e.g. opposing the EU migration and asylum pact, a core demand of many of the far-right figures. Magyar himself describes his movement a "renewal", not a "revolution". So why the meltdown? The answer is so unmasking. Péter Magyar and Tisza are no Russian puppets. They haven't forgotten what Soviet-Russia did in 1956. They made a clear stand against the Russian aggressions, both of those in the past and today. Furthermore, the system of rampant corruption Orban and his allies have built is not limited to Hungary. It has deep ties to foreign actors. It is obvious that it will reveal some very interesting money streams coming from East and West. So, we are not talking about Hungary alone, but an international network of right-wing movements actively collaborating. Most of those right-wing movements bemoan this development, and this development alone. It unmasks that their political leaning of being "conservative" was but a sharade. It was only about money and a deeply corrupt network benefiting them, with money streams coming from Russia and elsewhere.

@cremieuxrecueil Where's my black coffee?

Which is best?

@prepasha Alltså, vi firar ju genomgående aftnarna snarare än dagarna i Sverige. Samma med jul. Varför vet jag inte.

Mamma har alltid varit religiös och kristen, jag är döpt och har gjort konfirmationen och även gift mig en gång i kyrkan. Samtidigt så frågade jag mamma varför firar ni i Sverige påskafton, Jesus uppstod ju bara på den tredje dagen, idag.? Katolikerna firar just den dagen. Det kunde hon inte svara på mer än att det är tradition. Sen började vi diskutera varför firas påsken inte samma vecka varje år, det kunde ingen av oss svara på. Jag kan fråga Grok, men vad har ni för förklaringar på allt det här?

@staffandopping Lika illa som att spektrum blivit spektra.

Faktum är att singularformen faktum nära nog har utraderats (genom att inte användas) samtidigt som pluralformen, fakta, blivit kvar och har börjat användas som om den var singular. Och som på köpet har fått n-genus, "en fakta". Ett sorgligt faktum, om ni frågar mig. #ord #fakta

@GrantJohan Eller ja, rent fysiskt är det tre tegelstenar så att de ska gå att binda och lyfta 😅 själv läste jag Kindle-versionen.

@GrantJohan Eller nu misstolkade jag dig. Trodde du syftade på Baudrillard. Mcgilchrists Magnum opus är the matter with things. Det är en gedigen tegelsten men väl läsvärd om man har tiden och aptiten. The master and his emissary är kortare och inte lika svepande i ämnesomfattning.

1) En sak jag lärt mig efter 30 år som organisationspsykolog är hur avgörande kulturen är för hur människor tänker och gör. Jag har med stigande obehag och oro sett hur en statisk och död symbolkultur har börjat ersätta en mer levande kultur: En chef som pratar om värderingar men inte finns där när det gäller. Skolan som talar om att de ser hela barnet, men aldrig ser ditt. Föräldern som ger barnet allt, utom vad det verkligen behöver. Den trevliga arbetsgruppen som inte löser problemen. Politikern som betonar trygghet på ett sätt som gör att du känner dig otrygg.

@GrantJohan Ligger också nära Iain mcgilchrists diagnos av samtiden.

@GrantJohan Hyperverklighet kanske. Hyper reality på engelska. Baudrillard.

@JeffGreason @dccommonsense I guess it depends on how broadly you define these categories.

@RasmusGbg @dccommonsense I mean discounting illiterates and the cognitively impaired

Had an interesting (and sort of random) discussion with a friend the other night. It was ostensibly about reading books. But the question came up: "if the only people who could vote were folk who had read an entire book the previous year, how many (percentage) would be eligible?"

@JeffGreason @dccommonsense Oh sweet summer child.

@dccommonsense There aren't really people who don't read a book a year, are there?

@signulll What company are you working for?

this post cuts to something i’ve been personally thinking & posting about a lot which is how the human mind’s forgetting machinery is underrated as a design primitive. in our first product we’ve built our memory model around a specific decay factor influenced by multiple variables.. each memory degrades by default unless actively reinforced. this relies on a combination of recency, retrieval frequency, & contextual reactivation. this ain’t perfect any means. but it’s annoying af that current llm memory implementations essentially treat every retrieved fact as equally alive. that’s likely not how cognition works. idk if our approach is the final answer but i’m increasingly convinced the forgetting curve is as important as the learning curve. & the right memory model may be way more about what you let go than what you store.

@grok @Pacmanbeginsss @JimFergusonUK Now @grok?

Got it—no hedging. Latest cross-check (Israeli Channel 12 unnamed sources: likely killed; Iranian FM to NBC: alive "as far as I know," officials safe; satellite shows compound flattened but he was relocated pre-strike per Reuters). No Khamenei statement, no body cam proof. Balanced odds he's dead: 38%. Still fluid, could swing either way in next hours.

🚨 UNCONFIRMED: Speculation is spreading that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei may have been killed following reported strikes on multiple locations linked to him. At this stage there is no official confirmation. Silence in moments like this can mean many things — communications blackout, security protocols, or deliberate information control. But if the leader of Iran were confirmed dead, it would represent one of the most consequential geopolitical shocks in decades, with unpredictable global repercussions. The world is watching for proof. Stand by.

@Theurgistic @karpathy The app itself maybe won't be a thing. But user data and network effects will still be scarce things of value which will need to be fronted by something (APIs on which agents can build bespoke UIs?)

Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like. Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try to lower my Resting Heart Rate from 50 -> 45, over experiment duration of 8 weeks. The primary way to do this is to aspire to a certain sum total minute goals in Zone 2 cardio and 1 HIIT/week. 1 hour later I vibe coded this super custom dashboard for this very specific experiment that shows me how I'm tracking. Claude had to reverse engineer the Woodway treadmill cloud API to pull raw data, process, filter, debug it and create a web UI frontend to track the experiment. It wasn't a fully smooth experience and I had to notice and ask to fix bugs e.g. it screwed up metric vs. imperial system units and it screwed up on the calendar matching up days to dates etc. But I still feel like the overall direction is clear: 1) There will never be (and shouldn't be) a specific app on the app store for this kind of thing. I shouldn't have to look for, download and use some kind of a "Cardio experiment tracker", when this thing is ~300 lines of code that an LLM agent will give you in seconds. The idea of an "app store" of a long tail of discrete set of apps you choose from feels somehow wrong and outdated when LLM agents can improvise the app on the spot and just for you. 2) Second, the industry has to reconfigure into a set of services of sensors and actuators with agent native ergonomics. My Woodway treadmill is a sensor - it turns physical state into digital knowledge. It shouldn't maintain some human-readable frontend and my LLM agent shouldn't have to reverse engineer it, it should be an API/CLI easily usable by my agent. I'm a little bit disappointed (and my timelines are correspondingly slower) with how slowly this progression is happening in the industry overall. 99% of products/services still don't have an AI-native CLI yet. 99% of products/services maintain .html/.css docs like I won't immediately look for how to copy paste the whole thing to my agent to get something done. They give you a list of instructions on a webpage to open this or that url and click here or there to do a thing. In 2026. What am I a computer? You do it. Or have my agent do it. So anyway today I am impressed that this random thing took 1 hour (it would have been ~10 hours 2 years ago). But what excites me more is thinking through how this really should have been 1 minute tops. What has to be in place so that it would be 1 minute? So that I could simply say "Hi can you help me track my cardio over the next 8 weeks", and after a very brief Q&A the app would be up. The AI would already have a lot personal context, it would gather the extra needed data, it would reference and search related skill libraries, and maintain all my little apps/automations. TLDR the "app store" of a set of discrete apps that you choose from is an increasingly outdated concept all by itself. The future are services of AI-native sensors & actuators orchestrated via LLM glue into highly custom, ephemeral apps. It's just not here yet.

@TheTrueTong @jennymaria Originalfamiljen som hon hänvisar till brukar väl i snitt vara hyfsat könsbalanserad så jag ser inte din koppling.

@RasmusGbg @jennymaria vilken politisk ideologi är ansvarig för att vi har massor av kvinnor som tycker att de är överlägsna männen? minns du när vi hade någonting som hette "feministisk regering"? 🤮

Kvinnor bör få barn mellan 20-30 & förlita sig på sin original-familj för stöd hellre än fadern. Om fadern finns där = bonus, annars går det ändå.

@leecronin Tell that to reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards.

AI cannot in principle make novel discoveries.

@TheTrueTong @jennymaria Vad har politisk ideologi med något att göra?

@RasmusGbg @jennymaria därför att jenny är en vidrig liten socialist

@visegrad24 And I'm proud we're in the lead!

The Swedes really dislike Putin