Übermensch Redux

Philosophy,Magical Realist, Deontic, Fitness Maximalist, Probability (Dilettante), Epistemology (everything), Flâneuring, INCERTO (NN Taleb) & Deadlifts.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Yours truly said "no" (in other words, "fuck off") to more than 15 invitations to join the "secretive" Dialog society --and to other such societies as well.

[Amar Govindarajan @amargov]

Every time someone in India loads a website, the DNS query routes to a root server in the US to get resolved. One of the world's largest internet populations has zero root server clusters of its own - and India is now pushing ICANN to change that.

- MeitY wants a root server cluster in India for the first time
- ICANN runs clusters in Singapore, Europe, the US, Egypt and Kenya, none in India

- India could get 18 servers mirroring all 13 root servers that underpin the internet
- In-country servers cut DNS latency and let ISPs contain cyber attacks at the gateway

good move

https://t.co/FaFwcQDXMd

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Yeah, French statecraft is Romain Rolland and not De Gaulle. India's politicians are much-abused (all for good reasons), but they have somethng innately blessed frm up in the skies. Else....

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

"By your stumbling, the world is perfected"
- Sri Aurobindo.

While the ostensible promise of AI is that Humans will have more 'life' related things to do once machines mimic us fully, it lacks an ontology and misses the pedagogy of human transformation.

Humans acquire meaning by giving ourselves goals that involve dealing with differences, rising above our inadequacies, learning to go deeper within our internal resources.

The main instrument for this spiritual sadhana is our work. Humans cannot work on themselves in isolation, it is only when we come together towards a tangible outcome that discomfort is produced.

In navigating such discomfort, our identity, self-image and vision gets challenged and we transform into higher planes.

This separation of work/tasks/life is artificial to the Hindu mind. This is the reason our society self-organized as kulas and Jatis and sacralized the work to produce individual fulfillment IN the collective.

The hope that humans will somehow evolve without the instrument of meaningful work is convenient marketing.

We just need to see what has happened since the rise of social media to assess this. The curated 'world of one' that social media creates meant that we are losing the ability to reason, to be patient, to stay with the discomfort and dialogue.

We hark back to the comfort of our digital escape where our attention is monetized and we trade our relationships.

The sober case for Humanity in the age of AI takeover is not life compatible unless there is a tremendous spiritual work that accompanies and undergirds it.

THat is the real work.

[Übermensch Redux @TheStoicRex]

@elonmusk U are the admin

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

@smitabarooah @PatkarSumedh I did once grow a beard, but shave it off after being mistaken for Amol Palekar

[shreya @shreyaatwt]

one of my fav videos of all time

[Übermensch Redux @TheStoicRex]

Tell

[The Deshastha @TradDeshastha]

What kind of X account am I to you?
1. Non-toxic
2. Meaningful
3. Boring
4. Annoying (in a good sense)
5. Always doing e lafdas
6. Funny
7. Popular
8. Always on your timeline
9. Scared to DM
10. Toxic
11. Gives good insights
12. Coal

[Giɴ @Demeter_Erinia]

People obsessed with being seen as good people are never good people.

[Übermensch Redux @TheStoicRex]

@agniyuta @infinitchy There is a crystal clear difference between the two quotes as one is signal and latter is a general BS trying to be juxtaposed with Advaita Vedanta xd

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

To also keep in mind, no cntry in the subcontinent has gone in for as many IMF bailouts as SL has (more than even Pak I think). Currently, SL is surviving on an Indian bailout on top of its latest IMF program...

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The great A. N. Komogorov's "information abt X conveyed by Y". Entropy is a much more rigorous metric of association than correlation. See in thread w/Andrey Nikolaevich's algorithmic complexity.

A reminder of the "Supreme Rigor of the Russian School of Probability".

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Supreme rigor of the Russian school of probability: they dealt in inequalities not identities @philipbstark

[Übermensch Redux @TheStoicRex]

Fragility of Himalayan ecosystem owing to reckless tourism has a direct correlation with insta reels where those who haven’t ever been to such places are psychologically forced to pay visit to post pics/clips etc back on such SM platforms.

[Himalayan Hindu @himalayanhindu]

The obsession with breaking records has successfully turned the fragile Himalayas into the world's longest PARKING LOT. Joshimath is currently choking under a massive 25-30 KM long traffic jam. From Vishnuprayag to 15 km beyond, tourists are stuck in their cars for hours.

[John Oldman @PrasunNagar]

Lohanipur torso is a damaged sandstone statue, found near Patna in 1937.

Standing 2 foot tall, it is thought to represent a Jain teerthankar.

It has a brilliant polish, which is characteristic of the Mauryan era.

Also found near the statue were Mauryan era bricks and punch-marked coins.

The torso has a striking resemblance to the Harappan jasper torso recovered in 1928 ( figure 2).

[Übermensch Redux @TheStoicRex]

@Shreyas_Mysuru Through NJAC

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

“Every Hindu who leaves the Hindu pale is not one Hindu less but one enemy more" - guess who said this?

[Prithvi @Prithvi10_]

One year of this classic 😂

[Übermensch Redux @TheStoicRex]

@somnath1978 Any war or even a knife fight with adversary nation would expose INC’s INS-baaz facilities in ANC which he calls strategic choice carved out of keeping environmental concerns intact.