Finland

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Czechia, they go to, they go to Sweden and Finland.

They're like, "All right, the Swedish Series." And you're like, "Really? September 15th? Okay.

I mean, I'll tune in.

Um, uh, you know, recently, just a, a, I think we mentioned a lot last podcast where we really didn't get into it.

There was the UK and I believe 11 other countries, including France, um, you know, most importantly France, but Denmark, Finland, um, Spain, Ireland, some other countries, Canada, okay, uh, have actually, you know, imposed some sanctions, not on Israel, you know, as a whole, but just on the, the, the West Bank settlements.

Right.

Heard about that.

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when he batted the puck out of the air on the Canadian goal line in w- in what would've been the gold medal-winning goal for Finland, uh-

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And so understanding that, is it possible to do a trade deal? Yes.

I mean, Finland, like Tolkien tires, many of them were produced in Russia during that period, and they were not best of friends.

Tough negotiations there geopolitically.

So we can navigate that.

And this is where I feel like we need to resist that urge.

And I don't know how to address slavery in order to make that happen, but whatever it is, I'm I'm here for it but I can understand why this party is going it's 12 years out of a thousand because I'm guessing that the shame over it is probably what made them go okay you know we oh my god we were white supremacists for 12 years this history is terrible we've got to open the border we got to make things right we gotta and then they over correct it in a way that has been suicidally empathetic as Gadsad would say and it's not just Germany so here's a list Italy their far-right party is on the rise France their far-right party is on the rise Finland's far right for Australia Japan, Spain now, Argentina, El Salvador, Peru.

And it is the same issue.

Each and every one is fatigued with global institutions that are overriding their sovereignty with mass immigration and unaffordable cost of living.

I mean, I'll just take you through them.

Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

But just to clarify, they said that they're moving towards restricting trade with illegal Israeli settlements.

So it's not a full ban yet.

But, um, um, y- I, I was basically writing about my book, not, not a- about my life, but not just that.

But, um, I travel a lot to Finland because the, the company I work for now is, is, is in, in Finland.

And, um, and I also, I've, I've been going there since 2019.

I had a partner there.

And, um, and Finland, by the way, um, has an incredible nightlife.

Um, I'm not sure if I wanna tell this because it's like a, you know, it's like a hidden gem.

Um, but, um, but, you know, um, some of my experiences in Finland made a way into the book, uh, in the form of, you know, some, some, um, you know, Finnish girls doing something in, in, in, in a scene.

Um, and, um, yeah, I- I'm basically writing about my experiences and my life and things that I've witnessed m- most, most of it.

For over an hour, he seriously engaged with my arguments that superintelligence would kill everyone and the urgent need for an international agreement to prohibit its development.

Unprompted, he decided to submit a written question, a formal process in Finland that requires the government to respond within 21 days.

For days after our lunch, it was submitted, taking into account suggestions from me and two experts I DMed.

Nate Suarez and Charbel Raphael Sijuri.

It asked how Finland has assessed risks from superintelligence and whether it's prepared to promote international regulation that would effectively prevent or restrict the development of superintelligent AI.

The MP started speaking out about AI danger and mainstream Finnish media picked up the story.

Most notably, he did an interview alongside a Finnish CS professor on the second-most-watched TV channel in Finland with an estimated 100-200k live viewers.

Inspired by my success, a friend had three meetings about AI danger in a week with MPs from three different parties, all of which went really well.

Today, we are reading an actual honest-to-goodness academic paper from the International Journal of Role-Playing from, like, 2008.

This is The Invisible Rules of Role-Playing: The Social Framework of Role-Playing Process by Markus Montola, who is, or was a researcher at the University of Tampere in Finland.

Now I think he is head of a mobile games studio, but he is a pretty well-known figure in Nordic LARP circles in and out of academia.

He has presented at many conferences and things.