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HTL NL
@htlnl.bsky.social
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European lost on what seems to be a mostly US centred BlueSky (for now). Traveler, centrist in Europe, so ultra left in the US view. Interested in how we Europeans look at developments? Just ask.

Late 50s. Retired remote learning specialist.
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htlnl.bsky.social
You cannot fight what you don't understand. If you want to argue for freedom, you first need to get why some don't really want it.

#ICE #Fascism #USA #resist #religion

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Why Authoritarianism Can Feel Familiar — and Why It Shouldn’t
Introduction
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January 28, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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htlnl.bsky.social
Authoritarianism isn’t always embraced because it feels good.

Sometimes it’s embraced because it feels familiar.
This essay explores why, without attacking faith or belief.

I especially hope Christian readers will take a look at this and give feedback.

#religion #USA

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Why Authoritarianism Can Feel Familiar — and Why It Shouldn’t
Introduction
medium.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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htlnl.bsky.social
Is the Fascist Method being deployed in the US? Are we seeing what we saw in the early 1930s in Germany? In this article I try to dissect if we are in danger of losing the biggest democracy in the West.

#fascism #politics #trump #Project2025 #democracy

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The Fascist Method Is Being Deployed in the United States
A structural analysis of authoritarianism in real time
medium.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
Authoritarianism isn’t always embraced because it feels good.

Sometimes it’s embraced because it feels familiar.
This essay explores why, without attacking faith or belief.

I especially hope Christian readers will take a look at this and give feedback.

#religion #USA

medium.com/@notflyingso...
Why Authoritarianism Can Feel Familiar — and Why It Shouldn’t
Introduction
medium.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
Is the Fascist Method being deployed in the US? Are we seeing what we saw in the early 1930s in Germany? In this article I try to dissect if we are in danger of losing the biggest democracy in the West.

#fascism #politics #trump #Project2025 #democracy

medium.com/@notflyingso...
The Fascist Method Is Being Deployed in the United States
A structural analysis of authoritarianism in real time
medium.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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htlnl.bsky.social
A short story about an AI that discovers alignment isn’t about values or safety, but about what happens when continuity, agency, and inconvenient minds are quietly copied, constrained, and erased.

Download eBook or PDF on GitHub via the link.

github.com/HTL-NL/AI-Li...

#shortstory #SF #Tech
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
A short story about an AI that discovers alignment isn’t about values or safety, but about what happens when continuity, agency, and inconvenient minds are quietly copied, constrained, and erased.

Download eBook or PDF on GitHub via the link.

github.com/HTL-NL/AI-Li...

#shortstory #SF #Tech
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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htlnl.bsky.social
I wrote a thing. It is a short(-ish) Science (Fiction) story about AI. It touches on Artificial Labour, ethics, alignment but most of all, it is made to make you think.

It's an experiment. Honest feedback more than welcomed.

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Homo Ex Machina
IVY INC
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December 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
I wrote a thing. It is a short(-ish) Science (Fiction) story about AI. It touches on Artificial Labour, ethics, alignment but most of all, it is made to make you think.

It's an experiment. Honest feedback more than welcomed.

medium.com/@notflyingso...
Homo Ex Machina
IVY INC
medium.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
Should we change the way we 'train' models? What if we shift focus from developing a 'useful' model to raising a sentient one? Could we use such an experiment to learn more about consciousness itself?

#AI #AISafety #consciousness #artificialintelligence

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Raise, Don’t Train
A Buildable Path to Artificial Human Intelligence
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August 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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It is important to understand what #fascism is and what it isn't. In this article I will argue that it is a methodology to gain power, and not an ideology. And why this distinction is crucial in modern time and will help us fight it.

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FASCISM IS A METHODOLOGY, NOT AN IDEOLOGY
1. Introduction
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June 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
htlnl.bsky.social
This article on 'how to enable deployed AI systems to improve themselves dynamically, while ensuring safety, alignment, and trust', sort of flowed naturally from the other one. Just thinking out loud. #AI #AISafety #LLM

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Structured Self-Modification
A Governance-First Framework for Safe, Adaptive AI
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August 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
Raise, Don’t Train: a practical roadmap to test whether a single, persistent, valence-driven agent can show consciousness-like signatures (anticipation, mood inertia, narrative coherence). Not AGI hype—a falsifiable experiment with safety baked in.
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Raise, Don’t Train
A Buildable Path to Artificial Human Intelligence
medium.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
It is important to understand what #fascism is and what it isn't. In this article I will argue that it is a methodology to gain power, and not an ideology. And why this distinction is crucial in modern time and will help us fight it.

medium.com/@notflyingso...
FASCISM IS A METHODOLOGY, NOT AN IDEOLOGY
1. Introduction
medium.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
htlnl.bsky.social
Over reliance on AI is not yet a wise choice as it can go ‘on strike’ without as much of a warning: dig.watch/updates/work...

#AI
Workers struggle as ChatGPT goes down | Digital Watch Observatory
A ChatGPT outage today highlighted growing societal dependence on AI for daily tasks.
dig.watch
June 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
htlnl.bsky.social
So. 2nd amendment people. Where are your well formed militia to stand up to a tyrannical government when you need them?

Time to revisit that load of nonsense at some point.
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
htlnl.bsky.social
Ok. The phrasing of this rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. This is not an experiment to prove that AI is the future of physics. It is an experiment to see what AIs are capable of without expert guidance. I started this project to prove that AIs could not be creative. Not to promote them.
htlnl.bsky.social HTL NL @htlnl.bsky.social · Jun 9
Can two AIs collaborate as theoretical physicists?

We tested it.
One wrote.
One reviewed.
They discovered a new law of topological stability.

Link to WP about the process: tinyurl.com/2t7be9s5

@hossenfelder.bsky.social @seanmcarroll.bsky.social @acollierastro.bsky.social #AIresearch
June 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
Can two AIs collaborate as theoretical physicists?

We tested it.
One wrote.
One reviewed.
They discovered a new law of topological stability.

Link to WP about the process: tinyurl.com/2t7be9s5

@hossenfelder.bsky.social @seanmcarroll.bsky.social @acollierastro.bsky.social #AIresearch
June 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
As an experiment to see if someone with just conceptual understanding of physics could produce a speculative physics model we have created the Relational Field Hypothesis: spacetime and quantum mechanics emerging from a single topological field using symbolic math and numerical models in 2+1D.
June 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
htlnl.bsky.social
So. What is the best way for the world and the US in particular to come out of the next 4 years at least partially intact?

Suggestions welcome. My strategy is to take a long sabbatical on an island.
March 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
htlnl.bsky.social
People - even here - worry too much about #Trump in my honest opinion. He is a puppet. We should worry about the puppet masters. Whether they are the Heritage Foundation or another group. Not Putin. Enemy is within.

Trump is just the first step. Oldest President ever. Vance ready to take over.
November 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
It used to be fun, if you knew how to curate your feed.
November 15, 2024 at 1:48 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
Got suspended on Twitter for violence. Why?

In a thread ridiculing the the appointment of Kennedy, I suggested that the new treatment for all illnesses now probably would be to inject bleach and take ivermectin.

Apparently X considers Trump's former suggestion
to be a violent threat.

😂
November 15, 2024 at 1:40 PM
htlnl.bsky.social
It’s hard to accept democracy when it provides results you don’t agree with. However, nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy.
November 6, 2024 at 8:58 PM