Optimist & advocate for free speech • Founder of Rool • Inventor of QLattice Symbolic AI

Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined March 2011
I'v been heads down in building a foundation for how apps should made in the future. TLDR: Apps are ephemeral, created on the spot to solve a problem right now. What needs to remain is the data
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Casper Wilstrup retweeted
I've been handing my files to AI tools that train on them. That's the trade I've been making without really thinking about it. Upload a document, get help with it, and somewhere in a terms of service, my content becomes training data. Rool is the first one I've seen that says no to that. Rool launches today. It's a full machine in the cloud — hosted in the EU — where your files, your ideas, and your AI live together in one private workspace. Here's what that actually looks like: → A real machine, not just a chat window Behind every conversation is a full machine. It holds your files, runs software, and keeps the work and memory between tasks. Start with a chat, then build from there. → Your files, software, and memory in one place Write a document. Work with your files. Run software. Your machine keeps the results and the context, ready for the next task. → Models self-hosted in the EU Rool runs the AI models on infrastructure they manage in the EU — so your workspace and the AI infrastructure sit closer together. → Your tools, connected Built-in connectors and custom MCP servers. Bring the services you already use into your Rool workspace. → The privacy stance is the actual product No ads. No data sales. Your files and conversations are never used to train AI models. Your data is stored in Finland, under EU law. Your machine is private to you and the people you invite. → Free forever, not a trial 240 AI credits per day. 2 machines. 1 GB storage each. No card, no trial clock. Balance refills hourly. Plus is €9/mo, Pro is €25/mo if you need more room. One thing I noticed on their site: no cookies, no consent banner. For a company selling privacy, that's a small detail that tells you they mean it. → rool.ai 🚀 Rool is live on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/roo… We've spent two years asking what AI can do. Less time asking who it's doing it for.
🤝 Paid partnership
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A full stack AI chat and virtual machine. 100% hosted in Finland. Not a wrapper around anyones API. This is what I have spend the last year building. Give it a shot. We have aroung 20K users, so you can still be one of those first people to discover it!
What would you never paste into an AI chatbot? 🤔 Rool is live on Product Hunt today 🚀 Your own private AI machine in the cloud, built and hosted in Europe. ✅ Never used to train AI ✅ No ads, no data sold ✅ Free to start Tell us 👇 producthunt.com/products/roo…
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Can't deny that I also built Rool to be a powerful alternative to ChatGPT, made in Europe Rool is the perfect foundation for building connected AI-powered apps, but it is also a chat with a powerful memory. Research, edit images, and collaborate with other users into a Rool
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The easiest way to get started is to sign up for an account right here console.rool.dev and you'll be Rooling in less than 30 seconds
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I just tried OpenAI o1. I wanted to test its ability to reason about a genuinely new scientific idea. Although it was fun, it illustrated to me that o1 still can't think outside the box in the way that is needed to generate genuinely new understanding. The conversation was about panpsychism. I asked o1 to help me think about how hypothetical proto-consciousness features of elementary particles could be formulated to explain particle properties that are otherwise considered fundamental, such as mass, spin, or charge. proto-consciousness -> mass, spin, charge, etc In it's response, it kept falling back to wanting to derive proto-consciousness from fundamental principles, rather than the other way around, implicitly falling into emergentist reasoning. So, o1 is certainly great at exploring current human knowledge, but I doubt it is useful for generating new knowledge in the true sense of the word. Human creativity, inspiration, and genius still have a role to play - at least for now.
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Reddy and Musk are both running the same poll (see next post). Their results are equivalent. Let's test the reliability of this. Who would you vote for?
57%Harris
43%Trump
30 votes • Final results
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Humans are social animals, and we will often shy away from the truth if it is socially damaging, because in a tribal setting, truth tellers were clubbed to death. On the other hand, the level of success of an organisation is determined by how truth-seeking they are. 🧵/1
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once companies grow to a 1000 employees or above. In my next endeavours, I will probably solve this by keeping the size of the organisation down. This is something that AI will make possible. Perhaps one of the biggest boosts that AI will bring to society will be due to🧵/3
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to this effect. Time will tell 😀
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I am really afraid of the term "hate speech". It seems designed to fertilize the ground for censorship. Just like "verbal violence", and other such lingo.
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Oh no! You didn't seriously write to Elon Musk and ask him to censor the live interview with Donald Trump? How could you do something so incredibly silly and destructive? In public and in the name of the EU trying to interfere with the presidential election in the US😳
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Replying to @Julie_C_G_Grove
Hvis DSB fløj med flyvemaskiner, ville du så flyve med?
18%Ja tak, DSB Airways🦸‍♂️
82%Nej tak 😨
56 votes • Final results
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The forgotten crook behind the rise of nazism? In 1919, the newly formed Weimar Republic adopted a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, assembly, etc. As the economic crisis deepened in the 1930s, President Hindenburg began to curtail these freedoms to suppress the growing support for communism and Nazism among the lower classes. He increasingly ruled by decree. People were jailed for their opinions, and the dissent and despair that fueled communism and Nazism were pushed underground. We will never know for certain, but I find it unlikely that the Nazi party could have done so well in 1933 without the authoritarian backdrop of Hindenburg's suppression of civil liberties.
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With Ukraine's incursion into Kursk, Putin has achieved his goal of putting more land between Russia and NATO. Can we stop the war now, please 🕊️
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On July 28 1997 the stock price of Intel passed $20 for the first time. It was the year the Pentium II was launched. Today, the stock price passed $20 once again. Which means that if you invested $100 in Intel 27 years ago, you would have $100 worth of shares today.🤨
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On this one I'm with Elon. Electronic voting undermines trust in democracy, fraud or not. Let's *never* have electronic voting here in Denmark.
This should be a requirement. If Argentina can do it, so can America!
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"Some experts argue that proportional representation has produced more social democratic politics in Wales and Scotland, but others say it could also be a pathway for extremist politics, as has happened in some places in Europe." - @guardian I guess we are supposed to be scared of one or the other. I just call that phenomenon democracy: Get as many people's voice heard in politics as possible. Proportional representation ensures that. The politicians will take a while to get used to power not being binary, but a balance. But in the long run, PR ensures an engaging and inclusive democracy.
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