Ásgeir Berg
asgeirberg.bsky.social
Ásgeir Berg
@asgeirberg.bsky.social
Philosopher at the Icelandic Institute of Philosophy.

http://www.asgeirberg.org/
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
September 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Here's the entry from a good friend of mine. "Beard Expert".
August 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This is what he says:
July 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here's an imperfect analogy. You look in, by whatever means, and this is what you see.
July 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Here is Gary Marcus, pointing out that some of the answers that OpenAI's model gave in the IMO are less than impressive.

But when it comes to LLMs, I'm always more impressed by the mistakes than the successes. The fact that it gave an answer like this, means that it came up with it itself.
July 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
April 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Right.
April 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Me, when I see Trump's make-up:
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Depends on the definition of "hard", but I nominate the Icelandic lullaby "Sofðu, unga ástin mín".

Here's a quick translation:
April 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Trump is The Beatles of stock market crashes.
April 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
February 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Bertrand Russell in 1935:
February 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Mín lítur svona út eins og sést á meðfylgjandi mynd og virkar fínt.

Myndirðu samt mæla með að skrúbba hana upp og setja hörfræjarolíu á hana?
February 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Þetta eru góðgerðasamtök sem BBC rekur og framlag USAID er sama og ekkert.
February 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Yes, but it kind of is if we go by the ordinary meaning of "frozen".

"Being below 0°C" seems a pretty big part of it.
February 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The world today if George W. Bush had not been appointed President in 2000 by the Supreme Court.
January 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Saga of the Greenlanders reports the same story. This is my translation.
January 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This is what the Saga of Eric the Red says about it (public domain translation from 1880).
January 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I really don't believe this will be the case.
January 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
December 14, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Ég skil svo ekki þennan part í greininni. Af hverju skiptir það máli að margir hafi trúað að þetta hafi byrjað 2020 en ekki með innlimun Krímskaga 2014?

(Ég held reyndar að flestir trúi að þetta hafi byrjað 2022, en ok.)
December 4, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I hadn't used my free article for the month, so I could open it. I took a screenshot of what it says. Congratulations!
December 4, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Saga í tveimur myndum:
November 23, 2024 at 8:04 AM