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Oh absolutely. There’s a Croatian joke I heard recently: AI is basically Vegeta. It's our universal seasoning, we sprinkle it on everything the way Brits put vinegar on chips or Americans put ketchup on literally anything. Except with AI, putting it into everything isn’t always harmless or funny.

LLMs are incredibly useful for writing in foreign languages. For example, noun cases in Croatian, I've never met a nonnative speaker who gets them right. But the problem is that people don't use LLMs properly, as you already explained in your book The AI Mirror.

As a Croatian Brit, I know naturalised Brits are part of what makes this country great. Demonising migration is just a distraction from the real issues: the wealthy dodging tax and housing treated as investment stock, not homes. Let’s discuss the root causes, not the scapegoats.

oh... brilliant. In other words, always use it in "logged off" mode? 🤔

As someone who grew up in the 1990s war-torn Croatia, I recognised Septimus Warren Smith long before I met him in Mrs Dalloway, which I re-read this summer. Moving to the UK in 2018 only confirmed: Septimus isn’t a place or a time — he’s a condition. And we still live in his world, unfortunately.

Is it knoppix still around? Still have a vivid memory of it being the very first distro i booted from a CD.

It would work well in the UK because people are engaged and politically literate. On the other hand, it would never work in Croatia because Croatians are nothing like Brits (except for the obsession with home ownership), lol 😆 Ideas always exist in a particular cultural and historical context.

In-person lectures are the best, but jampacked daily schedules combined with super-expensive train tickets... this can be a huge barrier to entry. What makes a difference is in-person engagement, so I would look into this direction if I were a lecturer--emphasis on in-person engagement is the key.

My life has changed ever since I purchased a Kindle Colorsoft. Reduced screentime to < 1 hour, and your book The AI Mirror was one of 20+ night companions during this transformative journey 😎

Oh, I see. Now everything makes perfect sense. I'm 47 years old and I was 40 when I moved from Croatia to the UK. I was politically illiterate before I moved here because Croatians believe they have 0 agency over the political process, lol, but in the meantime I evolved and changed my mind 😁

Interesting. Never really thought through it much because I'm an engineer by training and everything tech related is a lot simpler, lol... Do you have a background in political science?

I think that the UK has a unique opportunity to learn from the mistakes from other political systems and to build a hybrid one that will offer the best of the two worlds. But the question is, what will it look like and how will we call it?

(3/3) One good reason UK scholars should pay more attention to so-called eastern Europe—home ownership rates. That screenshot isn’t AI hallucination; it’s real. Better to face it now than when Nigel Farage ends up as our next prime minister 😬