Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori]
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Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori]
@futuritas.eu

Technology, ethics, and philosophy. Oh, and some political science - more specifically political theory.
Associate professor at the University of Oslo.
My research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p

Neuroscience 22%
Political science 17%
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What's the value of academic articles and doing research? The product or the process?

This article has been a long process, and how I've processed the ongoing AI disruption of research. I use it very little, and while it's clearly not all bad, I argue for caution.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.

And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
Japan is joining Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme.

Openness and international cooperation can shape a bright future for science and technology.

Through science, we can build bridges, strengthen competitiveness, and accelerate the green and digital transitions.
Oh wow this is a new low, arguably more insidious and damaging to the integrity of human knowledge than creating fake sources (which at least can be exposed). Reading & judging the quality of the cited support for your claims is the difference between trustworthy research and cherry-picked bullshit
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
En gylden anledning til å ta et dykk inn i en moderne teknologibedrift, i overvåkningskapitalismens tidsalder.
(+) Palantir i Norge hadde 67 millioner i inntekter i fjor. De ansatte tjente 155 millioner
Det er gode tider om du er ansatt i overvåkningsgiganten Palantir, også her i Norge.
www.morgenbladet.no
Kan vi ha en norsk dugnad?

Det er pinlig at bedrifter og offentlige er på x og har "twitter" logo fortsatt.

Vi må hjelpe dem!, hva trenger vi?

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Sources: Oracle has pushed back completion dates for some data centers it is building for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028, largely due to labor and material shortages (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
In TechnoFeminism and earlier work on the gendering of workplace technologies, she argued that technologies are never neutral: they are shaped by the values, hierarchies, and assumptions of the societies that produce them.
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New podcast episode: AI Bubble Economics 101! (W/Stuart Mills)

A word that is increasingly being discussed is "bubble". But what is a bubble really, are we in an AI bubble now, and if we are: what’s next?

Have a listen, share widely!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
AI Bubble Economics 101
Podcast Episode · TDSlowdown · 12/12/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
The Heritage Foundation is cracking
🚨🚨"Elon Musk Has Made X a Threat to Democracy and His War on the EU Proves It". Caroline Orr Bueno has an excellent report here on how #Musk has turned #Twitter/#X into a tool for foreign #interference which monetises and weaponises a global network of disinformation. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
Tech Policy Press contributing editor Mark Scott contends the EU’s fine of X under the DSA exposes a widening divide in how US and Chinese tech firms engage with European regulation. US platforms are pushing back, while Chinese companies are striking deals to comply.
Europe’s Tech Rules Are Driving a New US–China Divide | TechPolicy.Press
Mark Scott contrasts US pushback over Europe’s DSA fine of X with Chinese tech platforms’ more cooperative approach.
www.techpolicy.press
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
I love soccer and I remember each World Cup with great intensity and always so much look forward to the next. But FIFA that was disgusting, even more disgusting than usual, and now I just can’t. And won’t.
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com

God overlapp, da! :D
Samboer har lest 39 bøker så langt i år, jeg har lest 22. Overlapp: 2 (Ambjørnsen, Dronningen sover, og @futuritas.eu, Hvordan redde demokratiet fra KI). Ikke veldig bærekraftig, si. (Jeg kjøper mest, hun er flink å bruke biblioteket)
Switzerland fails to lead the world in getting real.

Switzerland: Voters reject climate tax in referendum

More than 78% of Swiss voters opposed the introduction of a new inheritance tax on multimillionaires, the proceeds of which would have been directed toward "socially just measures to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
On a related note, here's a useful book if people wanna understand more on EA doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

> It brings together a diverse group of activists and scholars to explore Effective Altruism’s failure to meaningfully address forms of human and animal suffering.
David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:

“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁: Why do some experts dismiss AI existential risk?

I'm happy to share our new paper "𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸: 𝗮 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀" in the academic journal 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺.
Examining popular arguments against AI existential risk: a philosophical analysis
link.springer.com
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025