ulrikrasmussen (u/ulrikrasmussen)

ulrikrasmussen commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

monooso · 13 days ago

Every single Labour politician who voted on this bill voted against it.

Peter Kyle was one such MP, and now he's making statements like:

> I see that Nigel Farage is already saying that he’s going to overturn these laws. So you know, we have people out there who are extreme pornographers, peddling hate, peddling violence. Nigel Farage is on their side.

It's maddening. The worst part is that they've somehow put me in the position of defending Nigel Farage.

ulrikrasmussen · 12 days ago

Ugh, that quote is a disgusting way to argue. It's akin to saying that all vegetarians are nazis because Hitler was a vegetarian.

ulrikrasmussen commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

hathawsh · 17 days ago

There are areas where we seem to be much closer to AGI than most people realize. AGI for software development, in particular, seems incredibly close. For example, Claude Code has bewildering capabilities that feel like magic. Mix it with a team of other capable development-oriented AIs and you might be able to build AI software that builds better AI software, all by itself.

ulrikrasmussen · 17 days ago

Claude Code is good, but it is far from being AGI. I use it every day, but it is still very much reliant on a human guiding it. I think it in particular shows when it comes to core abstractions - it really lacks the "mathematical taste" of a good designer, and it doesn't engage in long-term adversarial thinking about what might be wrong with a particular choice in the context of the application and future usage scenarios.

I think this type of thinking is a critical part of human creativity, and I can't see the current incarnation of agentic coding tools get there. They currently are way too reliant on a human carefully crafting the context and being careful of not putting in too many contradictory instructions or overloading the model with irrelevant details. An AGI has to be able to work productively on its own for days or weeks without going off on a tangent or suffering Xerox-like amnesia because it has compacted its context window 100 times.

ulrikrasmussen commented on I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class lithub.com/what-happened-... · Posted by u/lapcat

croes · 20 days ago

So one bad day can ruin your marks.

It’s also a disadvantage for people with test anxiety.

ulrikrasmussen · 20 days ago

It's impossible to design a system which is perfect for everyone. People with attention disorders might feel the opposite and will do better with the pressure of a test.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) dewesoft.com/blog/every-s... · Posted by u/jonbaer

voigt · 23 days ago

Is there something like https://www.flightradar24.com for satellites?

Would be kind of interesting to build a “live” visualization of objects in earths orbit. But this would require accurate live data of those objects. Probably nothing that companies would publish.

On the other hand side: once the object and its orbit is identified, positions could be calculated…

Does anyone know more?

ulrikrasmussen · 23 days ago

https://stuffin.space also shows debree, and will show orbits when you click on objects.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

zo1 · 24 days ago

My comment may come off that way, but I don't think there is a perfect equivalence, no. And if anything, every person has a different set of morality.

I come from a point of practicality and lack of chaos. It's bad enough that we all have different morality, but we have somehow through some semi-shared and semi-agreed process come up with a set of laws that we should all subscribe and be held-to. And on top of that, we have individuals that want to add more chaos to the mix by having us gimp and restrict the government from enforcing the laws we have already agreed to (for better or worse). They don't get to have that right anymore than I have the right to break any other arbitrary law, and I am tired of privacy advocates claiming some objective moral high ground and "universal" principle of privacy that they claim we all share or want.

ulrikrasmussen · 23 days ago

I strongly believe that a little bit of chaos is necessary to actually make progress in civil liberty. Being able to detect any and all crime is indistinguishable from an authoritarian regime.

There are many laws today which are unjust, and which I think it is morally fine to break even though you put yourself at risk of being prosecuted. There have also been many laws in the recent past which have been repealed, and which we today will say were unjust. For example, prohibition against being homosexual was a thing in many western democracies up until just a few decades ago. Imagine if that was still illegal and we had this level of surveillance?

I also think that drug laws is a good example of unjust prohibition. I do not think all drugs should be available on a commercial market, but I think that we should have regulated sales so people can choose what they want to put in their own bodies. While I of course don't condone of the violence associated with it, I think the current situation of drugs being available on hidden dark markets to motivated buyers is a necessary evil to allow people to exercise their right to bodily autonomy in an unjust legal framework.

There has to be fudge factor for a democracy to actually make progress, or else I fear that we end up in some status quo where anyone who wants to open their mouth and protest a law will be afraid to do so because they don't know what dirt the state has collected on them.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

delusional · 24 days ago

> How many boxes have to be ticked before a flag is raised

If the proponents are right, an infinite amount. The information will never "raise a flag" since looking at it would require the flag to already have been raised (in the form of a warrant).

> and how is that going to affect what you tell the psychiatrist about how you really feel?

I think psychiatrists are already required to report you if they believe you're a danger to others.

> but we still see misuse of power.

This concern I sympathise with more, but I also have to imagine that this information bank could make it easier to investigate and convict this sort of misuse of power.

ulrikrasmussen · 23 days ago

> If the proponents are right, an infinite amount. The information will never "raise a flag" since looking at it would require the flag to already have been raised (in the form of a warrant).

From the main critical opponent Justitia which consists of law professionals:

https://justitia-int.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Justitia...

"Samtidig lægger lovforslaget op til, at PET vil kunne træne maskinlæringsmodeller til at genkende mønstre i disse data. En sådan udvikling øger overvågningstrykket markant"

Translation: "At the same time, the bill proposes that PET will be able to train machine learning models to recognize patterns in this data. Such a development significantly increases surveillance pressure"

> I think psychiatrists are already required to report you if they believe you're a danger to others.

That is not my point. A psychiatrist will not report you just if they think you are schizophrenic or a psychopath. However, how will a machine learning model categorize you if it knows this information AND all your social media posts AND any other things that may be attributed to you, such as your browsing history showing that you are interested in how to make TATP? Add to this that there is no way to ensure data quality and that collected data in the database may be incorrectly attributed to you, e.g. other people posting incriminating stuff on your social media profile.

> This concern I sympathise with more, but I also have to imagine that this information bank could make it easier to investigate and convict this sort of misuse of power.

The people misusing the power will also be the people who know exactly what to do to not end up putting a trail of evidence in the database.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market denverite.com/2025/07/25/... · Posted by u/matthest

bombcar · 24 days ago

It’s actually quite hard to definitively quantify if renting or owning is better in a given area/scenario.

Obviously the case near me where the mortgage payment on a house would be $2600/mo but the rent for the identical one next door is $2000 is going to swing heavily toward renting, but there’s more to it than just that.

Maintenance is huge and real and people just seem to ignore it on the “own” side, but 5-10% of the value of the house a year in maintenance isn’t unheard of.

ulrikrasmussen · 24 days ago

Also, a lot of the loan payments go towards your own equity, whereas all of the rent goes to someone else's.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

rdm_blackhole · 24 days ago

Signal said that they will the EU market if push comes to shove, so there won't be a Signal client to patch because there won't be a Signal app.

ulrikrasmussen · 24 days ago

There will still be an APK which can be sideloaded, and you could continue to use it through a VPN.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

zo1 · 24 days ago

I think that's a great idea. I for one want to enable our governments to track down criminals and punish them for it. If they're not doing everything they can do so in this technological and digital age, then they are breaking their part of that pesky "social contract" I am being upheld to.

And to people like you that oppose this and propose even more authoritarian laws that prevent me as a citizen from protecting myself: You don't speak for all of us.

ulrikrasmussen · 24 days ago

You speak as if there is a perfect equivalence between morality and law, and that every action that can be done to increase the rate at which crimes are solved is a good thing. I think that is a bit simplistic and naive.

ulrikrasmussen commented on Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social/@ec... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

delusional · 24 days ago

> This will be a machine for automatically generating suspects.

According to proponents, this is untrue. The intent of that database is that looking into it will still require a warrent, and will thusly require the suspect to already have been identified.

I'm no expert, but that sounds reasonably similar to how we treat other investigative means.

ulrikrasmussen · 24 days ago

At the same time, proponents have said that the whole idea of the database is to detect people with suspicious behavior.

Also, this is still nothing like getting a warrant to a wire tap - any suspicion will reveal YEARS of private information about you to the investigators. Furthermore, knowing that this can be used to identify suspects, surely it will have an effect on peoples behaviors.

They propose to include health records! What if you like to read about bomb making out of curiosity, have a relative who is in jail for violence, and you start seeing a psychiatrist? How many boxes have to be ticked before a flag is raised, and how is that going to affect what you tell the psychiatrist about how you really feel?

I also don't trust the police to not make mistakes or behave unethically enough to be comfortable with this. Denmark is not a very corrupt country, but we still see misuse of power. Just recently it was revealed how a police handler explicitly instructed an informant to lie in court and frame someone else, just so the handler could keep his source. Are these the kind of people who should have access to my search history and health data? No fucking thanks.