Hendrik Kempt
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Hendrik Kempt
@hendrikkempt.bsky.social
PostDoc in AI ethics at @RWTH Aachen, writes on human-machine relationships, AI safety, and chatbots - my latest book is on „(Un)Explainable Technology” (@palgrave).

queer, he/him

politically active at @SPD.
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I think there are essentially three root errors that are killing the left-of-center’s ability to navigate present-day politics.

First: DELIVERISM

Liberals and progressives want to believe that if you do things that help voters, they’ll like you. But often, they don’t notice or care.
Every time I read stuff like this, the whole premise of deliverism (people will reward you with votes for doing good things so you should do more good things) is dead wrong. When you have the power you should do good things on their own merits, and it’s disconnected from electoral outcomes.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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It is shocking how much the USA has lost in 9 months.
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Nein, Befristung führt nicht zu mehr Engagement, sondern zu weniger. Lohnt sich das noch? Bin ich bis dahin nicht sowieso schon weg? #IchBinHanna
June 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Forderungen von #IchBinHanna an neue Bundesregierung:

1️⃣ Postdocs raus aus #WissZeitVG
2️⃣ #Befristungshöchstquote
3️⃣ Flexible Personalkategorien neben Profs
4️⃣ Departmentstrukturen
5️⃣ mind. 4 J. Vertragslaufzeit für Promotion
6️⃣ Exzellenz- & Großteil d. DFG-Mittel in Grundfinanzierung

#HannaWählt2025
6 Forderungen von #IchBinHanna im Wahlkampf! #HannaWählt2025
YouTube video by Amrei Bahr
youtu.be
January 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.

This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make
Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars
www.bloomberg.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"Be a better woman through the power of AI" ... pls let that be satire ...
or how @hendrikkempt.bsky.social said: "Technological progress =\= moral progress" :)
December 21, 2024 at 1:21 PM
OpenAI‘s o3 preview going well I see. Certainly worth the environmental and economic cost per prompt.
„It can reason now“ Embarrasing. #openai #chatgpt #philsky
credit to @niklasmichels.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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"In Deutschland gibt es gar keine Leistungsbereitschaft mehr."

Was für eine Oberschichtsarroganz aus Herrn Linnemann spricht, wenn er auf die arbeitende Bevölkerung eindrischt, auf Menschen, die für kleines Geld und bei miesen Bedingungen Alte und Kranke pflegen, Pakete ausfahren, Kinder erziehen.
"Scholz zeigt Nerven" und "lügt" bei der Rente
CDU-Generalsekretär Linnemann erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen Bundeskanzler Scholz. Der verhalte sich respektlos gegenüber Unionskanzlerkandidat Merz und lüge beim Thema Rente. Linnemann beklagt zudem: ...
www.n-tv.de
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Now out: "Levels of Description and Levels of Reality", as a chapter of this new open-access book (edited by Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson) on Levels of Explanation, Oxford University Press. philarchive.org/archive/LISLOD
The book itself is here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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you are not a serious person if your fear of A.I. is “what if scary computer decide 2 extinct humans” and not the health insurance companies using it to sentence people to death
December 6, 2024 at 5:10 AM
My paper, with J-C Heilinger, on “Loss and Damage, and addressing structural injustice in the climate crisis” is now available open access (!) in “Ethics, Policy, & Environment” #philsky #climate www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Loss and Damage, and Addressing Structural Injustice in the Climate Crisis
The paper offers a normative analysis of the new Loss & Damage Fund supporting vulnerable countries grappling with climate change-related harms. This fund is primarily financed by affluent nations,...
www.tandfonline.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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I'm excited to announce this vacancy for a policy analyst at the AI Policy Lab @Umeå University !!
Come drive analysis and thought leadership in #AI policy

umu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share and/or consider applying!

#AIpolicy #AIgovernance #ResponsibleAI #AI #academicjobs #research
Staff scientist with a focus on AI policy and governance
The AI Policy Lab at Umeå University is committed to advancing research and developing actionable policy insights to support the ethical and responsible governance of AI. We collaborate with key stak
umu.varbi.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Beyoncé saving my gay card in my #wrapped top-artists (with over 60000 minutes that’s a whole lot of Andrew Bird and John Powell)
December 4, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Übrigens: Der finanzielle Kahlschlag durch den Berliner Senat erstreckt sich nicht nur auf die Kultur, sondern auch die Wissenschaft. Gastbeitrag des Professors für Philosophie an der TU Berlin,Axel Gelfert hierzu in der FAZ - leider bislang nur im e-paper: zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw...
December 4, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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A dangerous, stupid man and a pathological liar. I'm hearing some nihilistic "So what if we prevent this? The next nominee will be just as bad" talk. No. You fight the fight that's right in front of you.
“”100% of the people who died — the first thousand who had AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers,” Kennedy (falsely) told an audience of supporters in a video posted by the watchdog social media account PatriotTakes in 2023.”
Just a Reminder That RFK Jr. Thinks Poppers Cause AIDS
Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services also has claimed that chemicals in water turn kids gay and refers to puberty blockers as “castration drugs.”
www.them.us
November 15, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Still finding it hard to comprehend the awfulness of what it going on in Israel right now. Cannot see any route from here with mutually acceptable outcomes. Heightened my sense that humans are capable of making problems that they can’t solve.
October 9, 2023 at 6:16 AM