The 2020s will be remembered as the decade when the mediocre took over the world.
Students will read about it in their textbooks as an era of imbecility.
First in my generation to witness a high percentage of people not believing data released by the government. Be it COVID deaths, soldiers’ martyrdoms, farmers’ suicides or GDP numbers.
Are we actually living through the most chaotic era in human history, or are we just the first generation with social media forced to watch every tragedy on earth unfold in real time, and the world has always been this dark, we were just never close enough to see it?
There has been a lot of discussion on India’s recent growth data. I have not studied the numbers in sufficient depth to take a stance but the best analysis I have heard is that of Subhash Garg, who, as former Finance Secretary, GOI, knows these statistics extremely well.
Superintelligence will mean the end of social mobility. Instead of your being able to rise based on your talent and labor, those with the most capital will simply outcompete you by buying more compute. It will mark the end of any sort of meritocracy, and the dawn of a new feudalism.
You may still feel like you are living in a country or society but we are actually living in the midst of the largest strip mining operation in history.
A much bigger devastation could strike India's North-East if China goes to complete its 60,000 MW monster dam on Brahmaputra in seismologically sensitive zone