Justas Petronis
@dialethics.io
Doctoral student in Philosophy of AI | Product @ theydo.com | from Vilnius, Lithuania | my substack is dialethics.io
The Sea — a symbol of Lithuanian Cultural Movement against the fascistic party Dawn of Nemunas taking over the cultural sector in our new government youtu.be/3kGTf5yXW1g?...
The Sea
YouTube video by Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra - Topic
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The Sea — a symbol of Lithuanian Cultural Movement against the fascistic party Dawn of Nemunas taking over the cultural sector in our new government youtu.be/3kGTf5yXW1g?...
Lost for words how good this one is. What’s trust, what’s an internalized, persistent belief, and what’s pretense, charade, and a ruse? And what’s the point of it all — when you’re, supposedly, not that different from the other guy. All at a backdrop of a fallen empire longing for a raison d’etre.
May 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Lost for words how good this one is. What’s trust, what’s an internalized, persistent belief, and what’s pretense, charade, and a ruse? And what’s the point of it all — when you’re, supposedly, not that different from the other guy. All at a backdrop of a fallen empire longing for a raison d’etre.
Trump’s getting peer-reviewed by his clique now in open source publications. What a time
Russian President Vladimir Putin effectively endorsed U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks that Greenland should become part of the United States.
Putin calls Trump’s Greenland ambitions serious and rooted in U.S. history — Meduza
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered commentary on — and effectively endorsed — U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks that Greenland should become part of the United States.
meduza.io
March 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Trump’s getting peer-reviewed by his clique now in open source publications. What a time
We weep for US. Sincerely, Europe.
The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
We weep for US. Sincerely, Europe.
Happy 35th, my lovely 🇱🇹.
As my mom said today, maybe there were hardships along the way but so far — the happiest stretch of history in a very long time.
Chaos globally can’t take away from that pride, especially being where we belong — 🇪🇺.
As my mom said today, maybe there were hardships along the way but so far — the happiest stretch of history in a very long time.
Chaos globally can’t take away from that pride, especially being where we belong — 🇪🇺.
March 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Happy 35th, my lovely 🇱🇹.
As my mom said today, maybe there were hardships along the way but so far — the happiest stretch of history in a very long time.
Chaos globally can’t take away from that pride, especially being where we belong — 🇪🇺.
As my mom said today, maybe there were hardships along the way but so far — the happiest stretch of history in a very long time.
Chaos globally can’t take away from that pride, especially being where we belong — 🇪🇺.
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I often hear that we need realism, not idealism. But realism never brought anyone peace and never liberated any oppressed nations. Only the dogged determination to defend our values ever achieved the victories we cherish. Only dreams and hard work can make us great again.🧵17/17
February 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I often hear that we need realism, not idealism. But realism never brought anyone peace and never liberated any oppressed nations. Only the dogged determination to defend our values ever achieved the victories we cherish. Only dreams and hard work can make us great again.🧵17/17
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The sounds of war in the sky of Kyiv right now
February 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The sounds of war in the sky of Kyiv right now
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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
I genuinely share Mr Heusgen’s sentiment. New world order. www.rte.ie/video/id/232...
Munich Security Conference chairman sheds tears
www.rte.ie
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I genuinely share Mr Heusgen’s sentiment. New world order. www.rte.ie/video/id/232...
It seems to me that some Europeans are now starting to feel viscerally the existential dread, broken trust, and betrayal that Ukrainians have lived with for over a decade. www.rte.ie/video/id/232...
Munich Security Conference chairman sheds tears
www.rte.ie
February 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We are embedding AI in our moral decisions. Are we, then, thinking more clearly—or just outsourcing our moral agency to synthetic systems? I try to unpack this super high-level, as if this was the intro to my thesis: www.dialethics.io/p/the-burden...
The Burden of Infinite Memory
An attempt at an introduction for my thesis while preparing a conference presentation in Tallinn this March (2025)
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February 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We are embedding AI in our moral decisions. Are we, then, thinking more clearly—or just outsourcing our moral agency to synthetic systems? I try to unpack this super high-level, as if this was the intro to my thesis: www.dialethics.io/p/the-burden...
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
That was some damn fine cup of coffee, Mr Lynch 😢
January 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
That was some damn fine cup of coffee, Mr Lynch 😢
We will never forget. #jan13 youtu.be/io6PTL81ocQ
January Events - How Lithuanian people stood up to Russian tanks in 1991
YouTube video by The Soup Central
youtu.be
January 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We will never forget. #jan13 youtu.be/io6PTL81ocQ
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can someone pls tell me where these superhuman models are
December 31, 2024 at 2:08 PM
can someone pls tell me where these superhuman models are
The machines didn't fail to think like us. We failed to understand how we think.
When we taught machines to recognize patterns instead of following rules, they began to learn like humans – and in doing so, revealed our fundamental misunderstanding of our own minds. www.dialethics.io/p/system-error
When we taught machines to recognize patterns instead of following rules, they began to learn like humans – and in doing so, revealed our fundamental misunderstanding of our own minds. www.dialethics.io/p/system-error
System Error
Why We Can't Compute Ethics
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December 4, 2024 at 6:11 AM
The machines didn't fail to think like us. We failed to understand how we think.
When we taught machines to recognize patterns instead of following rules, they began to learn like humans – and in doing so, revealed our fundamental misunderstanding of our own minds. www.dialethics.io/p/system-error
When we taught machines to recognize patterns instead of following rules, they began to learn like humans – and in doing so, revealed our fundamental misunderstanding of our own minds. www.dialethics.io/p/system-error
Why the analogy between AI and atom bomb is not correct?
- AI's proliferation is fundamentally different (runs on commodity hardware)
- The attack surface is vastly larger (every connected device)
- The development cycle is orders of magnitude faster
- The barriers to entry are significantly lower
- AI's proliferation is fundamentally different (runs on commodity hardware)
- The attack surface is vastly larger (every connected device)
- The development cycle is orders of magnitude faster
- The barriers to entry are significantly lower
November 19, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Why the analogy between AI and atom bomb is not correct?
- AI's proliferation is fundamentally different (runs on commodity hardware)
- The attack surface is vastly larger (every connected device)
- The development cycle is orders of magnitude faster
- The barriers to entry are significantly lower
- AI's proliferation is fundamentally different (runs on commodity hardware)
- The attack surface is vastly larger (every connected device)
- The development cycle is orders of magnitude faster
- The barriers to entry are significantly lower
A colleague of mine responded to my previous text: "with closed source, you can only trust, not verify". I admit, it's a compelling argument for open source AI. But what happens when the ability to verify doesn't translate into actual verification?
www.dialethics.io/p/the-glass-...
www.dialethics.io/p/the-glass-...
The Glass House Fallacy
Part II of my challenge that open source (AI) transparency in itself does not lead to better, more ethical development outcomes
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November 19, 2024 at 7:40 AM
A colleague of mine responded to my previous text: "with closed source, you can only trust, not verify". I admit, it's a compelling argument for open source AI. But what happens when the ability to verify doesn't translate into actual verification?
www.dialethics.io/p/the-glass-...
www.dialethics.io/p/the-glass-...
Musing about the naiveté of open source AI development tomorrow. Find it here in just a few hours: open.substack.com/pub/petronis...
November 17, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Musing about the naiveté of open source AI development tomorrow. Find it here in just a few hours: open.substack.com/pub/petronis...