Radulfr – Rauli Häyrynen

Web presence

Location

Multiverse – Universe – Laniakea Supercluster – Virgo Supercluster – Local Group – Milky Way – Orion–Cygnus Arm – Local Bubble – Local Insterstellar Cloud – Solar System – Earth – Northern hemisphere – Eurasia – Europe – Nordic countries – Finland – Southern Finland – Päijät-Häme – Lahti sub-region – Heinola

I am also a resident of the ausome world of Takiwātanga.

Name

Pronunciation (IPA): [ˈrɑu̯li ˈhæy̯ryne̞n]

Rauli comes from the Old Norse name Ráðúlfr [ˈrɑːðˌuːl.fr] ‘counsel wolf’. Häyrynen comes from the Finnish word häyry ‘carbon monoxide, fume’. It was probably a surname for a slightly crazy person. My usual nick around the web, radulfr, is simplified from the Old Norse name.

When I had an Instagram account, radulfr was already taken. I chose as my name vanecarah, from the Sanskrit word वनेचरः vanecaraḥ [ʋɐneːt͜ɕɐɽɐh] ‘wandering or dwelling in a forest, ascetic, sage’. I love forests and I have liked that word ever since I saw it in a dictionary. If that name pops up again on Instagram, it is not me.

State of the world since I was born

19832024sourcenotes
population4,699,569,3048,161,972,572WOM
temperature14.25 °C15.18 °CNOAAannual global average
T anomaly+0.35 °C+1.28 °CNOAAfrom 20th century average
CO₂343 ppm423 ppmNOAA
CH₄~1631 ppb1930 ppbNOAAextrapolated (data starts 1984)

Neurotype and personality

  • autistic Diagnosed 2021. I'm still trying to figure out who I really am.
  • male/autigender He/him, but they/them is fine too.
  • ISFJ/INTJ/? I usually have a hard time getting a clear result in tests like this.

Interests

  • languages, writing systems, words, names, etymology
  • nature, plants, rocks, space
  • photography
  • maps, floor plans, graphs
  • computers, programming
  • piano, J-pop, classical music, film music, ragtime
  • small objects like coins, keys, locks, paperclips, jewellery, found items
  • numbers I tend to remember them well. I've memorised pi to 100 decimal places.

The so-called “AI” (genAI, LLM, GPT)

I am a human being. Generative artificial intelligence, such as large language models, stands in direct opposition to what it means to be human. It is not intelligent, it does not know anything, it does not feel anything. It was made by stealing the work of others and is used to not have to pay humans for their work. The results that it spits out are useless because they cannot be trusted. The whole thing is a waste of time and resources.

Social media

If you follow me, I may or may not follow you back. If I don't follow, it's not because of you, but because I'm already overwhelmed by the number of posts I read daily. I appreciate every follower, even if I can't do it back.