Dirk de Vos

Musings. Building trust just as trust is ebbing away.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@FsTebza Okay, 2-3% voter support. Tragic

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@OfficialSethu Hmm...

[Nathan Beacom @Zheschool]

An organism is a self organized, self directed, purposive entity, irreducible to its parts. A computer is a mechanism whose organization is externally imposed and is entirely reducible to its component mechanisms

[Nathan Beacom @Zheschool]

The idea that Claude is conscious is so unbelievable that one is left to search for extraneous psychological motives on the part of the anthropic crew. Marketing? Hubris? A longing for family? A longing for God?

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@RyanCoetzee @dbbovey Ek het mos gesê. Despite Pollard's 3 penalties.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@RyanCoetzee @dbbovey Glasgow had better be more than 11 points ahead at halftime

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@electricfelix The incentives to have an EV as a private vehicle in Norway have been big for some time. The situation for LCVs & other commercial vehicles (with green number plates) is the opposite.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@rorysutherland Reversing cameras.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

I can't understand why more institutional investors have not taken a stand against the forthcoming SpaceX IPO. The valuation is bonkers and governance is about the worst. https://t.co/Bj7YtvHWa6

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

These 3 men won the Ice Hockey World Championship for Finland on Sunday.

Yesterday, the newly crowned world champions were already back fulfilling their military service.

That’s the beauty of our system, and part of why we are the happiest nation on earth

[Rendani (MBA - Wits) @Rendani666]

@1_Tsatsi They can go around selfie verifications easily as well

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

I long for a time when @SAFA_net becomes a serious, winning organisation. Its one thing supporting @BafanaBafana as a South African, its another thing supporting them & plotting a route to the knock-out stages of a tournament.

[Ben Pooler @benpooler]

Bafana World Cup visa bungle latest in long list of Safa snafus https://t.co/zfOtWjnTY3

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

There will be a period where humanity deeply regrets according the same copyright rights to artistic expression (musical score, poems, literature, poems, performances etc) as software coding. Deeply depressing here: https://t.co/0tZ6kRAvDF @atmoio

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@atmoio Shhhh.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@Microinteracti1 Completely agree too! Lived in Norway for 6 years. Two big problems, as you say: 1) protecting the Norwegian agricultural sector with support & tariffs. 2) Highly concentrated ownership (cartel) in the retail sector. Perhaps these two work together.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

@Thomashornall Yes. I lived in Norway for 6 years. Terrible grocery stores and hugely expensive. One would have thought that as Norwegians got richer and traveled more, that demand for something better would emerge. Some progress with immigrant owned stores.

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

Surely, there is something Norway can do to help?

[Thord Are Iversen @The_Lookout_N]

The Norwegian environmental organization Bellona is close to bankruptcy.

Bellona did a lot of great work on the Soviet nuclear waste legacy in Russia, including being the first to publish photos of the infamous Andreeva Bay in 1995.

https://t.co/zBlLo7f5Zs

[Thord Are Iversen @The_Lookout_N]

The Norwegian environmental organization Bellona is close to bankruptcy.

Bellona did a lot of great work on the Soviet nuclear waste legacy in Russia, including being the first to publish photos of the infamous Andreeva Bay in 1995.

https://t.co/zBlLo7f5Zs

[Dirk de Vos @DirkdeVos]

It's a struggle & so hard to understand but there are no shortcuts.

[Mo @atmoio]

I found the actual reason AGI isn't real

[Mo @atmoio]

I found the actual reason AGI isn't real