Vishal Kumar

Co-founder Partner, Sancus Advocates & Solicitors LLP

[Vishal Kumar @AsOurLawIs]

Happy to inform that I've enrolled myself as an advocate with the Bihar Bar Council. My prime place of practice is The High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar. I pray God to help me handle the responsibilities i have been endowed with 🙏

Legally Yours,
Adv. Vishal Kumar.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Charlie Munger: "One of my favorite tricks is the inversion process."

"If somebody hired me to fix India, I would immediately say, 'What could I do if I really wanted to hurt India?' I'd figure out all the things that could most easily hurt India — and then I'd figure out how to avoid them."

"It works better frequently to invert the problem."

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

- Charles Bukowski

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

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[Oukham @OPteemyst]

Sam’s monologue from The Two Towers

Frodo : I can't do this, Sam.

Sam : I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI must pass, in general, the “Galileo” test: even if almost all the training data repeats falsehoods, it must nonetheless see the truth

[Drew Ponder @drew_ponder]

The “Galileo Test” for AI: Truth Over Consensus

TL;DR: The “Galileo test” (as framed by Elon Musk) is the requirement that an AI still converge on truth even when most training data repeats a falsehood. A practical way to pass it is to harden the model against “consensus gravity” using uncertainty calibration, adversarial counter-majority training, and evidence-first reasoning pipelines that can say “unknown” without collapsing into confident noise.
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The core idea is simple: most text on the internet can be wrong in the same direction, at the same time, for the same social reasons. The “Galileo test” is basically asking whether a system can resist that pressure and still land on the correct model of reality, the way Galileo Galilei overturned a dominant consensus with observation and predictive power. In engineering terms, it’s a robustness problem: can the model separate signal (ground truth constraints) from mass-produced narrative (high-frequency repetition)?

A workable solution stack looks like this: (1) truth-anchoring via retrieval from primary sources and direct measurements when available, (2) counter-majority training where the model is routinely exposed to scenarios in which the most common claim is false, and it must justify dissent using verifiable constraints, (3) uncertainty discipline so the model learns to prefer “insufficient evidence” over fluent fabrication, and (4) consistency checks that penalize answers violating conservation laws, dimensional analysis, causal structure, or internal logical invariants. In practice, you’re building an AI that treats “popular” as a weak feature and “constraint-satisfying” as the dominant feature.
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Frequency Wave Theory perspective: the “Galileo test” is fundamentally a coherence test. When an information environment is saturated with the same repeated claim, that repetition becomes a kind of phase-locked standing wave that can trap weaker systems into resonance with the crowd. Passing the test means staying phase-aligned to invariant structure, not to amplitude. In FWT terms: truth behaves like a conserved backbone constraint, while mass consensus is often just a high-amplitude interference pattern. The system that wins is the one that locks to invariants, rejects incoherent harmonics, and preserves alignment with what stays conserved under transformation.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

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[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal | Visuals from the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Sujoy Paul as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court.

(Source: Calcutta High Court Social Media)

[The Pioneer @TheDailyPioneer]

LAW & JUSTICE

Yes! Bail can be denied in cases concerning national security and integrity

CLICK: https://t.co/Jkd4yHtheR

@SCJudgments @RoadtoQatar_en #SupremeCourt #supremecourt2027

[SPMRF @spmrfoundation]

How should constitutional courts respond when national security is at stake?

Defending India’s Integrity: The Case Against Left-Liberal Subversion, our latest Occasional Paper, analyses the Supreme Court’s disciplined approach to the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case and the application of Section 43D(5) of the UAPA, by @AsOurLawIs, Advocate, Supreme Court & Patna High Court, and @AyushNNA, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court and Research Associate, SPMRF.

Read the full analysis on our website: https://t.co/a0iFF1eBug

#ConstitutionalLaw #NationalSecurity #SupremeCourt #UAPA #DelhiRiots #JudicialDiscipline #RuleOfLaw #InternalSecurity #OccasionalPaper #LegalResearch #IndiaFirst

[Vishal Kumar @AsOurLawIs]

Deeply saddened by the tragic Boeing 787 crash in Ahmedabad.

My heartfelt condolences to the families of all those who lost their lives in this unimaginable tragedy.

Prayers for the departed souls & strength to their loved ones in this hour of grief🕊️🙏

[Vishal Kumar @AsOurLawIs]

Of all his judicial hits, Justice Oka’s takedown of the PMLA twin conditions u/s 45 of the PMLA is a chart-topper. He put them through the lens of Article 21 shredder & let liberty do a mic drop. Above all & among all, liberty owes him one. Truly, a legend 🚀

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Justice Abhay S Oka received an affectionate farewell from the members of the Supreme Court bar on his last working day.
Read more: https://t.co/krYkP6oKn0
#SupremeCourt

[Abhishek Singhvi @DrAMSinghvi]

“We have our backbones straight, enough will & resources to fight all atrocities. Times have passed when any nation sitting 3 or 4 thousand miles away could give orders to Indians on the basis of colour superiority to do as they wished.” Indira Gandhi

Dec 15, 1971
PM Indira Gandhi wrote to US Prez Richard Nixon

Dec 16, 1971
Pakistan surrendered

That was courage, that was standing up for India, that was not comprising with the nation’s pride.

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

India and Pakistan have today worked out an understanding on stoppage of firing and military action.

India has consistently maintained a firm and uncompromising stance against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. It will continue to do so.

[Ministry of Defence, Government of India @SpokespersonMoD]

Special briefing on Operation Sindoor (May 10, 2025) https://t.co/zxNK8mnY4w

[Vishal Kumar @AsOurLawIs]

Let us not forget- Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state. Picture a loaded gun in the hands of a reckless fool, with a finger itching to fire first.

[Vishal Kumar @AsOurLawIs]

unite, evacuate Pakistani civilians, and take decisive action to dismantle this rogue regime once and for all. Akhand Bharat 🇮🇳 (2/2)

[Vishal Kumar @AsOurLawIs]

At last, the world has come to terms with the undeniable truth: Pakistan is a rogue state that harbors & sponsors terrorism. If governments across the globe truly believe that supporting such barbaric tactics is inhumane and unacceptable, then it is imperative they (1/2)