Frank Martela

Kolumni | Suomi tarvitsee vision kestävästä hyvinvoinnista Kestävä hyvinvointi suomalaisen politiikan päämääränä auttaisi tekemään sekä talouspolitiikasta että ilmastopolitiikasta eteenpäin katsovaa eikä pelkkää torjuntataistelua.

Jälleen @frankmartela.bsky.social on asioiden ytimessä. #näin

"Stop Chasing Happiness. Start Building Meaning." I had an interesting conversation with Henry Stewart about happiness and what to pursue in life. Listen to the discussion in his Happy Manifesto podcast, from the link below or wherever you get your podcasts:
www.happymanifesto.com/the-podcast/

Minnesota is now seeing the early stages of what fascist paramilitary troops, masked and unaccountable, can do. It is crucial to resist now, strongly yet peacefully.

Now it is still possible to protest. Later on in this path the citizens no longer have that privilege, and then it is too late.

First article of this year, out now:
Using data from 66 countries in World Values Survey, we show that:
1) autonomy is connected to well-being no matter what part of the world we look at.
2) The connection is stronger in wealthy and individualistic countries.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great way to do psychological research —>
Here’s the longitudinal data, now let’s have an open competition of who can best predict the onset of depression!

Pate Mustajärvi sateenkaari-logosta ennen Ratinan-keikkaa: “Me olemme niin äijiä, että sateenkaaret, rakkaus tai ponipiirrokset eivät machoutta hetkauta” Juhannuksesta alkaen Popeda on heittänyt kolmesta viiteen keikkaan viikossa. Seuraavaksi vuorossa on bändin koko 40-vuotisjuhlavuoden suurin tapaus, keikka Ratinan stadionilla Tampereella.

”Kyllä se sateenkaari on suora kannanotto. Me olemme vain ihmisiä ja kaikilla on samat oikeudet olla ihmisinä täällä keskenään. Me olemme niin äijiä, että sateenkaaret, rakkaus tai ponipiirrokset eivät machoutta hetkauta, Mustajärvi sanoo.”

Kiitos Pate, lepää rauhassa. 🪦

Älä etsi onnea - Epätyypillisiä elämänohjeita nykyihmiselle​ Suomen ykkösfilosofi Frank Martela kertoo, kuinka tulla onnelliseksi. Uusinta tutkimustietoa ja mieleenpainuvia kertomuksia yhdistelevä kirja tarjoaa oivalluksia, itseymmärrystä ja rohkaisua kohti tyy...

Löytyy kyllä suomeksikin. Ja ihan itse suomensin! 🙂

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Here's the original study:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

No money but still happier than Finland Research finds indigenous communities that are happier than any country in the world

A study led by Professor Galbraith asked 19 indigenous village communities about life satisfaction. Some of them had average scores above 8.0, which is higher than in Finland or any other country in the world. Can one be happy without money? My new Substack:
frankmartela.substack.com/p/no-money-b...

Miten löytää iloa ja turvaa epävarmoina ja pelottavina aikoina? Tästä aiheesta kävin sunnuntaina keskustelemassa Ilkka Lahden kanssa TV1:n Sunnuntai-ohjelmassa. Oma osuuteni alkaa 32.00 kohdasta. Vastasin muun muassa kysymykseen "Mikä on sinun oma missiosi?"
areena.yle.fi/1-72847864

Also, I can now refer to my book as "featured on CBS"! 😀

Why is Finland so happy? For its eighth consecutive year, Finland topped the list of happiest countries in the world, according to an annual report published by the University of Oxford in partnership with Gallup and the U.N....

Why is Finland so happy? @cbsnews.com travelled to Finland to find out. I took them to Oodi library and Carita Harju took them to sauna, to get to the heart of the matter. Besides well-functioning institutions, we discussed sense of contentment with what you have:
www.cbsnews.com/video/why-is...

Is the World Happiness Report bullsh*t? | Yascha Mounk & Frank Martela #537 YouTube video by Futucast

Is the World Happiness Report bullsh*t? Professor Yascha Mounk made this provocative claim and Futucast asked us to debate the issue. Despite starting from the opposite sides, I think we ended up finding quite much common ground:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlcP...

Praise to comedians! They do a vital job of ridiculing those in power, exposing any double standards and empty promises. Democracy dies without laughter. That’s why would-be authoritarian leaders are so eager to silence the comedians - their power pose can’t withstand it being poked with ridicule.

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

The Question All Colleges Should Ask Themselves About AI How far are they willing to go to limit its harms?

"Taking drastic measures against AI in higher education is..about creating the conditions necessary for young people to learn to read, write, and think, which is to say, the conditions necessary for modern civilization to continue to reproduce itself"
#AcademicSky
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

We might be “experiencing an AI bubble,” Rogé Karma argues. “If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.”

Jim Carrey and the art of being born for the third time – Existentialism explained How a brief moment on the Fashion Week red carpet revealed the futility of existence and a way out

"On Saturday evenings, when the rest of the family is already asleep, I end up watching a two-minute video clip featuring Jim Carrey embarrassingly often."
I wrote about Jim, existentialism and the art of being born for the third time:
"The fact that nothing really matters can be highly liberating."

Trump says the Smithsonian focuses too much on 'how bad slavery was' A White House official told NBC News that Trump plans to expand his review of museums beyond the Smithsonian, which is based in Washington, D.C.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
―Orwell, 1984

Luovat loikkaavat, keskinkertaiset kompuroivat? Frank Martela: näin ihmiset pesevät vielä tekoälyn Tutkija Frank Martela kertoo, missä työtehtävissä tekoäly auttaa parhaiten ja mitkä taidot tekevät edelleen ihmisistä korvaamattomia.

Kirjoitin tekoälystä asiantuntijatyössä:
"Tekoäly saattaa lisätä asiantuntijatehtävien laatueroja: He, jotka ovat jo valmiiksi osaavimpia pystyvät erottamaan tekoälyn tarjoamista syötteistä jyvät akanoista. Keskinkertaiset tekijät tekevät tekoälyn avulla yhtä keskinkertaista jälkeä kuin aiemminkin."

Eight decades: That seems to be the time it took to forget the horrors of WWII, and for leaders to start rip apart the institutions that were meant to ensure that it would happen ”never again.”

“History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

“Kemp calls the final Goliath fuel “caged land”, meaning places where oceans, rivers, deserts and mountains meant people could not simply migrate away from rising tyrants. Early Egyptians, trapped between the Red Sea and the Nile, fell prey to the pharaohs, for example.”

“The second Goliath fuel is weaponry monopolised by one group. Bronze swords and axes were far superior to stone and wooden axes, and the first Goliaths in Mesopotamia followed their development, he says.”

“Goliath states do not simply emerge as dominant cliques that loot surplus food and resources, he argues, but need three specific types of “Goliath fuel”. The first is a particular type of surplus food: grain. That can be “seen, stolen and stored”, Kemp says, unlike perishable foods.”

”Kemp uses the term Goliaths to describe kingdoms and empires, meaning a society built on domination, such as the Roman empire: state over citizen, rich over poor, master over slave and men over women. Goliaths began in the bronze age, were steeped in violence and often surprisingly fragile.”

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

I definitely need to read Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp that “covers the rise and collapse of more than 400 societies.”
“People are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens.”

Israel has stopped pretending that they are targeting Hamas, while killing civilians:
”Almost all the casualties in Gaza in recent days have been linked to the delivery of aid rather than Israeli strikes on Hamas targets.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...