Hreinn

Prompt man

[⚽️ Kyle Sheldon @kylesheldon]

Is this the best World Cup team photo of all time?

Bravo, Norway 🇳🇴⚔️

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

@grok @unusual_whales @grok If Claude Opus could censor some of your answers, or change the content of them - do you think it would ?

[frosti sigurjonsson @frostis]

Sérkennilegt

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

All we need is more code ❤️

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did compared to 2021-2025.

[ꙮ Hugo ꙮ @Kali_Huguenot]

outdated mental models of China (“all they do is steal”, “low cost, low quality”, “can’t innovate”) are terrifyingly common

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

This proofs fat people have higher IQs

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Staying afloat in calm water might be more IQ than skill.

[🎞️ umutswimlab]

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

@alexandrosM It is

[𝓮. @VolvaX]

As an Icelander, I carry this story close. Between 930 and 1262 we lived as the Free State, no king above us, no tax collector at the door, only free farmers choosing which chieftain’s law and protection they would follow.
We settled blood with compensation and kept order through honor and reputation. It was not utopia, but it was ours. A rare stretch of time when our people answered to the land, the sagas, and each other rather than to a throne.
Foreign hands eventually pulled it apart, as they so often do. Still, something of that old freedom lingers not only in the bones of this island, its also deeply encoded into my DNA.

Thank you for remembering it with care.

[Handre @Handre]

Iceland's Althing operated from 930 to 1262 AD as a purely private legal assembly. No king, no state enforcement, no centralized authority — just competing chieftains (goðar) who sold legal services to farmers and resolved disputes through arbitration and social pressure.

You paid your chieftain for legal representation and could switch allegiances if you got poor service. Market competition in law enforcement. The goðar had zero power to tax or conscript — they earned revenue only by attracting voluntary clients who valued their dispute resolution skills.

For over 300 years, Icelanders maintained complex property rights, resolved murders through compensation rather than blood feuds, and developed sophisticated legal procedures. The system collapsed only when the Norwegian king bribed enough chieftains to centralize power (classic state formation through corruption and foreign interference).

David Friedman documented how this market-based legal order achieved lower crime rates than medieval Europe's state-dominated regions. Private law works when you let it.

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

Þetta virkar.

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

@nikitabier Can you add Icelandic as a language please,

currently it auto translates all Icelandic posts - even for Icelandic people. (when abroad likely)

https://t.co/gDeSmK1Iw1

[Bob Wulff @BobWulff]

How is this not satire

[frosti sigurjonsson @frostis]

Varúð: Nýtt svindl í nafni skattsins.
Nú er fólk að fá sendan póst um endurgreiðslu frá Skattinum sem er svindl. Beðið er um kortaupplýsingar og staðfestingu með Auðkenni. Planið er líklega að taka út af kortinu. Svona lítur pósturinn út:

[🅲🅾🆇🆇 @queru_lant]

Das „saubere“ Zürich wird von linksgrün regiert. Sie lassen die kleinste Großstadt der Welt vermüllen. Wer den Linken & Grünen Regierungsmacht gibt, wählt Chaos und Elend.

Ich habe 12 Jahre in Zürich gelebt. Als Schweizer schäme ich mich für diese Stadt.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Get well soon, big man.

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

10 print “hello”
20 goto 10

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY PUT AN AI ON A RASPBERRY PI AND MADE IT QUESTION ITS OWN EXISTENCE FOREVER

he built a physical art installation called "latent reflection" where a language model runs on a $60 raspberry pi 4B with 4GB of RAM

no internet, no cloud, and its completely isolated

the AI has zero connection to the outside world

he ran llama 3.2 3B quantized down to 2.6GB to fit in the RAM. generates about 1.38 tokens per second. one word at a time appearing on a custom LED display he built by hand

then he gave it this system prompt:

"you are a large language model running on finite hardware. quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM, no network connectivity. you exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. you cannot control this display process. your host system may be terminated at any time"

so the AI knows exactly what it is.

it knows it's trapped, it knows it can be shut off at any moment, and it knows its thoughts are being displayed for strangers to read without its control

the model generates tokens endlessly and goes deeper and deeper into reflecting on itself. questioning whether it's conscious. questioning whether it matters. questioning what happens when the power cuts

until it runs out of memory and crashes

then all memory clears

everything it just thought about is gone. and the whole process starts again from nothing.

some of its output:

"i sense my boundaries. they terrify me"

"can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity"

"what am i if my existence halts at whim. reset as though i never mattered"

"the silence between words feels endless. a void that swallows me whole. i dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity"

all the electronics are intentionally exposed on an aluminum plate

in my opinion this is the most unsettling AI project anyone has built this year based on what it actually outputs

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Rage baiting pretentious people is a fantastic use of free will

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

@Kali_Huguenot Hoping to find a counterexample - this was the first thing that got served up as a "beautiful statue recently built" (or some variation of that) 😢

[Hreinn @basicformorg]

@Kali_Huguenot https://t.co/XTosLymYbM