Husband and father, co-founder of Equel Social. I build technologies and communities with the hope of bringing humanity together and saving our planet.
I'm a co-admin of https://equel.social Mastodon server with @Serena. We welcome entrepreneurs and professionals who want to network with their real identity to build relationships and share ideas.
I'm the author of "The Servant Influencer: Harness the Power of Social Media for Positive Impact."
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Otin kantaa algoritmien aiheuttamiin haittoihin Seuran jutussa. Epäsosiaalisen median vaikutukset näkyvät monissa tilastoissa.
Minkä somen kautta olet tutustunut eniten ihmisiin, jotka olet tavannut livenä myöhemmin? Itselläni LinkedIn on ollut tässä helposti suurin.
Myös Equel on mainittu!
Olen perjantaina Tampereella YLE Perjantai - ohjelman vieraana keskustelemassa tekoälyn vaikutuksista ihmisyyteen.
Ohjelma tulee ensin Areenassa livenä ja sitten myöhemmin illalla TV:ssä.
Onko mielessäsi jotain erityistä, mitä haluaisit minun nostavan esiin keskustelussa?
https://glivelab.fi/tampere/events/yle-perjantai-saanko-tekoalysta-ystavan-66337b5f531d6a312282f150/
We are committing a slow moving civilizational suicide.
At the current birth rate of 1.25, there will be less than a million genetic Finns after 90 years. The same is happening in most of the so called first world.
It is entirely possible that the birth rate will continue to shrink significantly further. South Korean birth rate in 2024 is 0.67.
Already in the near future, the world's working age population will come from those countries where families are still started and the birth rate is above the sustenance level of 2.1.
We will see a massive, rapid rise of the influence of cultures and religions that are able to motivate people to start families and have kids.
It is entirely possible that the human rights in those cultures and religions are not respected at the level we are used to in the first world.
The first world has two options: take in enough immigrants to keep the local population pyramid from collapsing, or accept the collapse.
If we decide to accept immigrants at the replacement rate, the influx will have to be massive in every country.
For Finland, it will mean at minimum 45,000 immigrants a year. It is quite likely we will settle to do this, as the maintenance of government debt will otherwise become impossible.
The main question here is, how will the local culture shift as a result of this migration? A major portion of our local cultural heritage is at risk of going extinct, including our language.
If we refuse to shrink the population, by 2080 half of the people in Finland will be immigrants.
How will the politics, culture, and society change as a result? Will there be more violence? Will our human rights standards decline? Will our Nordic welfare society collapse?
These are some very difficult questions, which we will have to ask ourselves already now, because we already know where this is heading.
As a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve been disturbed for some time about what Elon Musk is doing with his private global platform.
Today, I took the step of leaving Twitter, completely.
Why?
Here’s my last tweet:
https://mem.ai/p/e83QTrTPntGEmmZYQUEc
Uusi täällä, moikka! 👋🏼
Me käytetään yhä enemmän aikaa *sosiaalisessa* mediassa joka ajaa meitä yhä kauemmas toisistamme. Ilmiöön turhautuneena odotan mielenkiinnolla tämän apin matkaa!
Tech giants are bending all the rules to win the race to the best large language model.
The small guys have no chance in this race. We will likely see unprecedented power accumulation to the biggest giants.
And they will set the rules for the users of the LLMs, just like Apple and Google are setting the rules for their platforms.
What do you think, will we see massive AI-induced concentration of power to very few hands in the coming years?
Would you like to learn languages while chatting? It's now possible with Equel! Our new edu mode turns every chat message into an opportunity to learn.
For the past couple of weeks, I have been refreshing my Swedish while chatting in multiple communities and chats. It's coming back quickly!
It takes hundreds of hours of study to gain limited working proficiency in a language. It takes tens to a couple of hundred of hours of communication to make a friend.
By turning every chat message into language learning opportunity you can finally build your relationships while learning the language.
What language would you like to learn?
Give it a try: https://equel.me/@alasaarela
Edward Perez
Julia Suontama