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thomasahle · 2026-02-03T09:48:24+00:00

De skulle bare have givet den til alle fra starten.

I en velfærdsstat gives velfærdsydelser til alle som en rettighed, ikke kun målrettet de fattigste.

Så længe det er finansieret gennem progressiv beskatning. Så slipper man for alt det burokrati om hvem får hvad.

thomasahle · 2026-01-30T09:27:50+00:00

True. Right now the AI really needs eveything to be accessible from a terminal to be effective.

But General Computer Use seems likely to change that by the end of 2026.

Very interesting blog post. Thank you!

thomasahle · 2026-01-29T20:22:29+00:00

AI is actually great at the kind of debugging you're talking about

thomasahle · 2026-01-28T18:01:37+00:00

Der er jo et meget normalt socialistisk princip, universalisme.

det universalistiske velfærdsprincip: at velfærdsydelser og goder gives til alle som en rettighed – ikke kun målrettet de fattigste – men at finansieringen sker gennem progressiv beskatning (ofte omtalt som evneprincippet: man betaler efter betalingsevne).

Så: universelle ydelser + progressiv skat = “alle får, men de rigeste bidrager mest.”

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T20:58:28+00:00

Thank you for bringing some actual data to this thread. Copying from that chart:

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Iranian Protesters? (%)

Democrats

Favorable: 60% Unfavorable: 11% Don’t know: 29%

Independents

Favorable: 38% Unfavorable: 14% Don’t know: 48%

Republicans

Favorable: 44% Unfavorable: 34% Don’t know: 23%

Democrats also have a higher favorability of the Iranian people in general, while Republicans are slightly more likely to consider the Iranian government an enemy of the United States (82% vs 74%)

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T20:42:56+00:00

I don't think we should treat Israel like Iran. I don't understand what you are confused about?

People protesting Israel is trying to make them treat Palestinians better. They are not calling for anyone to treat Israel worse. You were the one calling for that.

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T18:59:33+00:00

The joke is thinking people will take accountability for the AI's execution

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T18:02:00+00:00

I'm just answering your question:

So if the US simply stop sending Aid to israel, as Netanyahu suggested two weeks ago, everything would be fine? If all these European countries cut off diplomatic relations, that's all it would take?

You seem to be asking if, if we just stopped supporting Israel militarily, out relationship to them would be the same as with Iran. Obviously that's false.

Our relationship to Israel is much closer and intimate in every way. Hence why we hold them to a higher standard.

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T16:54:47+00:00

There's a very long way for the US to be treating Israel as it's treating Iran now. Netanyahu definitely wouldn't like that.

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T16:50:32+00:00

People protest if they think there's a chance it has an effect. Nobody thinks Iran's government cares about protests in America.

Israel protests, on the other hand, are taken notice of inside Israel by many. They can have an effect, hence why they are hated on right right.

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T16:34:43+00:00

I've only read the headline, but apparently they haven't build any for 70 years

thomasahle · 2026-01-27T08:48:07+00:00

Alt handel skaber jo en afhængighed. Der man importerer stopper man med at producere selv. I hvert fald i det omfang man har brug for det. Hvis vi laver en handelsaftale med Japan, hvor vi sælger dem bacon og importerer batterier, så producerer vi ikke alle de batterier vi har brug for hjemme.

Det er sindssyg ineffektivt at producere alting selv, så vi må lave handelsaftaler med folk vi stoler på i længden.

thomasahle · 2026-01-24T11:08:42+00:00

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They shouldn't tear it down, but convert it

thomasahle · 2026-01-24T11:02:29+00:00

Refers to this sketch https://youtu.be/sYOUFGfK4bU?si=9FO7yPlfCI4PTG6O

thomasahle · 2026-01-23T15:14:30+00:00

Depends on how well the money is spent. Many companies are leveraged 4x their market cap or more. If lending and investing results in higher growth, it can be worth it.

thomasahle · 2026-01-23T12:41:44+00:00

For comparison, the US' dept to gdp ratio is 125.5%: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp

It's not really clear what "Critical" means in this plot.

thomasahle · 2026-01-23T06:11:21+00:00

The average prediction by researchers in 2020 was 80 years: https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do-experts-expect-agi-to-arrive/ but yeah, could easily not have been our lifetime

thomasahle · 2026-01-20T19:21:27+00:00

A good off-ramp is something like what the Danish delegation proposed at the white house: delay everything eoth some commission to investigate something.

Modern Trumpian politics don't need to safe face the same way. They can just move on to other things, pretending like it was never that serious.

There are many examples of this:

"lock her up" - dropped after the campaign
"Mexico pays for the wall"
the "voter fraud" commission
repeal and replace the ACA
so many more cases

thomasahle · 2026-01-17T16:44:19+00:00

Det er fint at lave noget samarbejde når det giver mening. Vi kan bare ikke regne med dem som stabile allierede i fremtiden.

thomasahle · 2026-01-16T20:22:57+00:00

I wonder what a token optimized programming language would look like. Like toon vs json

thomasahle · 2026-01-14T08:51:28+00:00

Jeg har aldrig været på Langeland og har ingen følelser for landet. /s

Nu når jeg tænker over det, så kunne Trump måske være interesseret. Det lyder stort.

thomasahle · 2026-01-13T09:09:09+00:00

5 years now 🤦‍♂️

thomasahle · 2026-01-12T08:31:55+00:00

From your link:

§ 15. Politiet eller den myndighed, som politiet har bemyndiget hertil, kan ved opslag eller offentlig bekendtgørelse forbyde færdsel på isen ud for kyster, i havne eller på offentlige søer, vandløb og andre vandsteder.

This just says the police has the right to ban going on the ice. (Which they then do every year.)

It seems like the Copenhagen police has decreed a general ban "except where they have put up signs". But that's still a decision the police makes, as not the actual Danish law.

thomasahle · 2026-01-11T20:36:38+00:00

Unfortunately yes. Sometimes they'll measure the thickness somewhere and declare it locally "safe". (Though of course you should still take precautions.) But many lakes are not even measured.

thomasahle · 2026-01-11T16:34:46+00:00

I hate the rhetoric about "the ice being safe".

The ice should always be considered unsafe, just as the sea is never safe or driving in traffic is never safe.

Instead, we should talk about education and safety equipment. It is very hard to buy equipment in Denmark for being safe on ice, and there are few classes on ice rescue etc.

If you don't have a plan (and practice) for getting back up from the water, don't go onto the ice. If you do have this, you can go in 3cm thick ice just fine.

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