Sujit Mittra

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

Stuff that is widely speculated is now getting confirmed by an insider. Very revealing!

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

@LinkedInHelp My LinkedIn account (20+ yrs, 1,500+ contacts) was closed in error after I reported an impersonating fake profile.Looks like my own account got actioned instead. The appeal form is also failing with a captcha error on submission. Please help. Sent details via DM. 🙏

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

Wow! One miracle survivor on the flight — on seat 11A. He is Vishwas Kumar Ramesh

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

Happy Holi everyone!

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Happy Holi to all those celebrating!

May it be as joyous and fun as Kushagra Tiwari’s beautiful #ShotOniPhone photo.

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

@Iyervval Sangmarmar

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BREAKING NEWS:
Acting legend Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy, 63, found dead in their Santa Fe home, along with their pet dog. Police say early reports do not suggest foul play. What an incredibly sad end to a remarkable life. RIP.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

You're probably waking up to the big Trump-Modi meeting

Here are the headlines and the big wins for India🧵

[Advait Arora @WealthEnrich]

🇮🇳 This is Amazing. Indians in 🇺🇸

[Oliver Anwar @theoliveranwar]

After 12 years in the gym, here's every fitness tip I could come up with:

1. Stop drinking alcohol

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

Brilliant idea that’s been executed so well. Hope they can add subtitles to this video so that more people can appreciate the great work this couple is doing.

[MUMBAI NEWS @Mumbaikhabar9]

Viral | This Maharashtrian couple has established Patil Kulkarni Farm in Atlanta, USA

[Singapore in India @SGinIndia]

UP man caught in IGI Airport posing as Singapore Airlines Pilot. So glad he got caught. 🙏🙏HC Wong
#SingaporeAirlines #DelhiAirport #CISF
(📷:@ndtv)

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

This is the definitive cartoon for our times.

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

@sardesairajdeep Sad indeed! A correction in place though. Bournvita Quiz Contest was hosted by his older brother, Hameed Sayani, not by Ameen. (Not counting the odd episode that may have been hosted by Ameen in Hameed’s absence).

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

So crazy!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: 17-year old Chinese exchange student Kai Zhuang rescued in Utah after kidnapping himself.

Zhuang was reportedly 'kidnapped' in a cyber-scam where his parents were extorted out of $80,000.

The new scam, which is called "cyber kidnapping," is becoming more common. Scammers convince people to 'kidnap' themselves and send fake ransom photos.

In this case, scammers convinced Zhuang to run away from where he was staying and camp in a tent in the hills of Riverdale, Utah.

The scammers convinced Zhuang to send them fake kidnapping photos which they used to scam his parents out of $80,000.

Riverdale police found Zhuang "cold and scared" but unharmed.

[Prince.&.The.Pervert.Podcast @ohreallytruly]

All those who said that @VRSVirginia lied and that the photo with #PrinceAndrew was a photoshop and that the FBi hasn't seen it and that genies live in bottles, please have a look at this - a CD from the FBI featuring images taken by Virginia.
#Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

See this Instagram video by @curatedwines.sg https://t.co/wZwfaNfxPs

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

What simple idea is everyone ignoring in 2023 because everyone else is ignoring it?

Lesson from the simple trolley wheel. Interesting thread. 👇

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite paradox:

Humans put a man on the moon -- before they put wheels on luggage.

The smartest minds of a generation all carried their luggage...

Einstein, Edison, and Tesla all carried their luggage.

Neil Armstrong carried his luggage on the way to NASA's HQ.

Why?

The first patent was registered in 1970 by Bernard Sadow.

Despite this, it didn't take off until 1989 -- when pilot Robert Plath created the Rollaboard.

Humanity suddenly woke up from this collective hypnosis and realized how obvious it was.

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1. Mimetic Thinking

Nobody saw the obvious idea -- because nobody else saw it.

Working from first principles requires cognitive RAM.

Your brain outsources thinking to other people because it's energy efficient.

2. The Simple Idea Hidden In Plain Sight

Peter Thiel said the best stock pick of the last decade would've just been buying FAANG and hold.

No hedge fund did this.

Why?

They wanted to appear smart.

People were spending their lives trying to design flying cars before we put wheels on luggage.

3. Where is luggage without wheels in 2023?

If you want a sleepless night, ask yourself that question before bed.

What simple idea is everyone ignoring in 2023 because everyone else is ignoring it?

[Sujit Mittra @SujitMittra]

@dr_vee95 I agree, it’s tough being in the medical profession but surely it must be highly satisfying. We owe our thanks and gratitude to all medical professionals for all that they do and especially for all the tough things they did during Covid. 🙏

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The indigenous people of North Sentinel Island have been living there for an estimated 60,000 years. The island is similar in size to Manhattan and is located in the Indian Ocean.

Around 80 to 150 individuals live on the island and rely on hunting and gathering, similar to the Stone Age. They do not practice agriculture. Many attempts have been made to contact them from the outside world, but these efforts have been met with strong hostility.

In 1771, a ship from the East India Company saw lights on the shore of North Sentinel Island but did not investigate further. In 1867, an Indian merchant ship was forced to land on the island due to heavy monsoons. After spending three days there, the crew was attacked by a barrage of arrows. They defended themselves with basic weapons until the Royal Navy came to their rescue.

In 1880, the British returned to the island and found a deserted village. They kidnapped six Sentinelese individuals, but all of them became ill when exposed to the outside world. In 1896, an escaped convict reached the island, but his body was discovered with arrows and a slit throat.

In 2018, an American Christian missionary went to the island to convert the indigenous people. He encountered two armed Sentinelese who approached him aggressively. Despite warning shots, one of which struck his Bible, the missionary continued to approach them, expressing love and religious beliefs. He was killed by arrows and buried on the beach, with his body still unrecovered.