It is a little amusing that the guy who basically tried to buy people off to vote for Trump in 2024 is angry at Ambani.
Musk forgets that they are cut from the same cloth.
If he would have been able to influence Trump in the same way Ambani influences Modi, he would. He already tried and made himself richer. He just didn’t make it to Ambani’s level of power.
I came across a Reddit post that described AI in a way I can’t stop thinking about:
“AI allows the wealthy to access skills while stripping skilled people of their ability to access wealth.”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the purpose of AI captured so brutally and accurately.
It's not like Jamui incident has happened from nowhere. States literally legitimising these things through deploying anti-romeo squads and giving political protection to Bajrang Dal whose main purpose is harassing consenting couples.
FRAANDSS, DESH KE BETE RAPISTS CHALEGA, HARASSMENT AUR SEXUAL HARASSMENT KARENGE, LADKIYON KO HARASS KARENGE YEH CHALEGA, LEKIN BETIYA GAALI NAA DE BASS!!
I hate when the older generation complains about us being too mentally weak. I’m sorry uncle, emotional regulation is hard we can’t all just beat up our wife and kids to feel better.
Maybe the sanitary pad brands should start showing this in their ads instead of women being all happy and doing gymnastics on their period. At least then we can all see the harsh reality of what women go through that people very conveniently love to ignore.
AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.
That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.
It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.