Researcher at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya studying population health&ageing (& now stuff on digitalisation) https://xitter.cf/t.co/jop88bcsq1?
Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Superintel·ligència?
No cal dir que aquesta terminologia prové de la mal anomenada intel·ligència artificial (IA), una etiqueta antropomòrfica poc acurada que superintel·ligència no fa més que agreujar.
Com s'assenyala sovint, l'única IA que funciona realment bé avui dia és la que opera darrere la pantalla, sigui resumint documents, jugant als escacs, demostrant teoremes o generant imatges. En canvi, cap robot controlat per IA pot fer el que fa un llauner, un electricista que improvisa en una instal·lació antiga, una infermera que gira un pacient al llit, un bomber que orienta una víctima entre fum i runa, o un macaco caputxí que obre una nou amb una pedra. Per què? Doncs perquè el món físic és molt més exigent que el món virtual. Superar el Test de Turing és molt més fàcil que assolir una IA veritable en el món físic. Per aquest motiu, el Test de Turing no constitueix una bona manera de mesurar la intel·ligència. No obstant, és el que fan totes les companyies per promocionar els seus models frontera.
I, és clar, bona part de la ciència consisteix, ni més ni menys, a aprendre a interactuar amb la realitat. Per tant, l'aprenentatge estadístic, que és com s'hauria de dir la intel·ligència artificial, sempre anirà a remolc i esperarà els humans per generar nova informació i/o que inventin alguna cosa nova en qualsevol àmbit abans que ho pugui copiar per crear noves simulacions d'una realitat que existeix (en part, gràcies a la quotidianitat intel·ligent dels humans i, també, a la seva recerca constant). Així doncs, l'única cosa verdadera de la intel·ligència artificial és que és artificial però intel·ligent, no ho és.
Això sí, l'obsessió dels líders tecnològics abans per la intel·ligència artificial i ara per la superintel·ligència reflecteix una tendència pròpia de Silicon Valley, que és confondre escala amb profunditat i càlcul amb comprensió. Es confonen habilitats estretes i específiques amb intel·ligència general, i després es fa el salt a una suposada superintel·ligència, tot ometent un fet força inconvenient que és que cap màquina no sap encara cordar-se les sabates al mig d'un pas de vianants ni navegar per una habitació desordenada.
En definitiva, no es tracta de mera semàntica. Aquesta terminologia condiciona el finançament, les polítiques públiques i les expectatives socials. Qualificar d'intel·ligents els sistemes actuals infla les seves capacitats i distorsiona les prioritats de recerca. La superintel·ligència és, avui, un eslògan de màrqueting més que no pas un full de ruta científic. Fins que les màquines no puguin igualar un mico en el món real, parlar de superintel·ligència és prematur en el millor dels casos i deliri en el pitjor. Potser hi ha una excepció que confirma la regla: Donald Trump. Qualsevol IA, per bàsica que sigui, el supera amb escreix.
President Trump says the U.S. “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme” to regulate artificial intelligence, while proposing the technology be called “superintelligence.”
“The use of the word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence fake, it makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing,” Trump says in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. “But we have to be careful,” he adds.
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Trump made the call. FIFA bent the rule. Balogun came back.
And Belgium still sent the hosts home 4-1.
The United States had the home crowd, the flag, the hype, the phone call, and the second chance. Belgium had the pressure, the finish, the Red Devils, and the waffles hot enough to cook the whole back line.
You can bend the rule, but you cannot bend the game.
Cheated and defeated.
Bye bye bye.
Sacred Defense.
#CheatedAndDefeated #USAvBelgium #WorldCup2026 #RedDevils #PersiaBoi
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
The US has refused to host Iran's national team for the World Cup even though they have to play all their games there
Which means they're based in Tijuana and will have to fly on the day of their games
I've never heard of this kind of discrimination in World Cup history
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Continuem amb el tercer bloc, amb Enric Ripoll (@idescat): el temps al llarg del cicle de vida. Infància, gent gran i transferències de cures, amb aportacions d'experts acadèmics i institucionals. Hi participen @InstInfancia @UICBarcelona @UABBarcelona @TimeUseInit_cat
#EUT2024
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
El IMC 🎯 sigue siendo una referencia rápida, pero sus categorías cuentan solo una parte de la historia.
Al analizar 23 enfermedades en España durante casi dos décadas, aparece un patrón claro: cada condición responde de forma distinta al IMC. Algunas aumentan de manera continua, otras solo a partir de cierto umbral y varias muestran más riesgo tanto en valores muy bajos como muy altos.
La conclusión es simple: entre “peso normal” y “obesidad” hay muchos matices que las etiquetas no capturan. Para prevenir mejor, necesitamos mirar 🧐 trayectorias y umbrales reales, no solo un número en una tabla.
Artículo de @popageing ya disponible:
cenie.eu/es/blogs/no-todo-ca…
#CENIE #sociedadeslongevas #longevidad #esperanzadevidasaludable
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
This 2-hour Stanford lecture breaks down how models like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built, clearer than what many people in top AI roles ever get exposed to.
Save this and set aside two hours today. It might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
El Txema viu al carrer Sant Agustí 14, al @BlocSantAgusti, des de fa 11 anys.
New Amsterdam Developers va comprar l'edifici fa 3 anys, va voler fer fora la gent que hi vivia i va fer obres per convertir els pisos en colivings. Cobren 1.000 € per habitació.
Però és un frau.
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR.
lamoncloa.gob.es/presidente/…
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."
RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!
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Reporter: You said Maduro is responsible for drug trafficking. You recently pardoned the former president of Honduras convicted of drug trafficking.
Trump: He was the head of the country. He was persecuted very unfairly.
Irony died a thousand deaths.
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."
RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Misschien moeten die EU-haters dit artikel even lezen. En ja, de EU is niet perfect. En ja, we zijn op het gebied van veiligheid jaren een free rider geweest. Daarom: werk aan de winkel!🇳🇱🇪🇺
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Relax, Byron.
No one’s hanging a portrait of Lenin in Times Square.
Mamdani isn’t launching a five-year plan — he’s proposing free buses, fair rents, and a living wage.
But since you love history, let’s unpack your list.
1️⃣ “Communism failed in Cuba”
Yes — after 60 years of a U.S. blockade that deliberately strangled its economy.
And yet, Cuba still has universal healthcare, education, and one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the Americas.
If that’s “failure,” what do we call 30 million Americans with no health insurance?
2️⃣ “It failed in Venezuela”
You mean after $130 billion in U.S. sanctions and a Western oil embargo?
That’s like tying someone’s hands and shouting, “Why can’t you swim?”
Also: Venezuela still provides free education and subsidized housing — things Wall Street executives apparently find too “radical.”
3️⃣ “It failed in the USSR and Eastern Europe”
Sure.
But fun fact: those countries still maintain public healthcare, free universities, and state transport systems — the same ideas you’re calling “Communist disasters.”
Oh, and the first progressive income tax in history?
Introduced by Abraham Lincoln. A Republican.
4️⃣ “Zohran’s Communist policies”
Let’s see:
Tax the ultra-rich 🏦
Invest in housing and transport 🚇
Fund healthcare and mental health 💊
That’s not communism, it’s social democracy — the same system that makes Scandinavia the happiest region on Earth.
Only in Florida could that sound like a Marxist apocalypse.
5️⃣ The uncomfortable truth
“Communism failed” is the bedtime story capitalism tells itself to sleep at night.
Meanwhile, unregulated capitalism failed — repeatedly:
1929. 2008. Billion-dollar bailouts for billionaires every single time.
That’s the only socialism the U.S. truly practices — socialism for the rich.
📎 Sources
The Guardian (Nov 4-5 2025) – “Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York.”
Le Monde (Sep 26 2025) – “The socialist symbolizing Democratic voters’ revolt.”
U.S. Congressional Research Service – Cuba Sanctions: Policy Overview (2024)
Center for Economic & Policy Research – The Impact of Sanctions on Venezuela (2023)
OECD Data – Health & Education in Eastern Europe (2024)
Abraham Lincoln, Revenue Act of 1862 – first progressive income tax
📣 Uncomfortable Truths | AntonellaNEWS
When they say “Communism failed,” ask: for whom?
Because capitalism seems to “work” only when taxpayers bail it out.
#UncomfortableTruths #AntonellaNEWS #SatiricalCivics #Mamdani #ByronDonalds
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
Jimmy Kimmel basically just lost his job for saying Charlie Kirk’s killer was MAGA.
Just a few days ago, here’s Brian Kilmeade of Fox News saying homeless people should be killed:
He still has his job:
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
This father went to his citizenship hearing expecting a handshake.
Instead, ICE shackled him, threw him into a van, and tore him away from his pregnant wife and four children—without even letting him say goodbye.
Kasper Eriksen arrived in Mississippi from Denmark in 2013, fully documented and determined to build a life here.
He started a family, became part of his community, and followed every rule. He was never accused, let alone convicted, of any crime.
But as best we understand, he's now imprisoned because of a single clerical mistake made years ago. In 2015, Kasper and his wife, Savannah, missed filing one form, among the hundreds required on the complicated path to citizenship.
Savannah had just suffered a stillbirth, losing their first child. In the painful days that followed, paperwork deadlines understandably slipped past unnoticed.
Now, over a month after his arrest, Kasper remains locked in a detention facility notorious for cruelty, neglect, and abuse.
Savannah—eight months pregnant, at high risk, and terrified—is desperately pleading for her husband's return.
She and their children have no idea when or if they'll ever see him again, and she doesn't know if he'll be present for her child's birth.
Every day brings another nightmare under the Trump administration.
The actions of our government are evil. There's simply no other way to describe it.
May God have mercy on us all for allowing this to happen.
Jeroen Spijker retweeted
🆕 paper by Van Damme M @maikevd2011 , Spijker J @popageing; Pavlopoulos D (2025).
This study generates a classification of 26 European OECD countries with respect to care regimes.
doi.org/10.1007/s10433-025-0…
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🆕 paper by Spijker J, @popageing van Damme M, @maikevd2011 Arpino B (2025).
This paper examines how caregiving influences employment transitions among employed mid-life adults (50–69 years)...
doi.org/10.1007/s10433-025-0…
