@KE_MrBlack Simple: the wife gets a calm Sunday drive with cruise control. The side piece gets a stolen car going 130 mph with no headlights. It creates elite cardio
Seems the Centre is misjudging the public mood right now. Why else introduce a fee on UPI and make things worse for your own standing?
Sure, running UPI costs money, no one expects it to be entirely free. But the cash-heavy system we had before cost significantly more. In reality, UPI saves the govt far more money than it takes to maintain.
Think of it like this: You used to pay ₹1,500 a month to ride a crowded bus. Then you switched to the metro, which costs only ₹800 a month. Instead of being happy that you're saving ₹700 every month and getting a better ride, you start complaining about spending ₹800. That’s exactly what’s happening here. The govt is complaining about the visible maintenance cost of UPI while completely ignoring the massive savings and value it has gained.
By shifting millions of transactions online, UPI reduced tax evasion, boosted compliance, and expanded the formal economy. It slashed cash-handling costs like printing, transport, and security, while ensuring cleaner, leak-proof welfare payouts. Its digital trail suppresses black money and fraud.
So why ruin one of the most successful systems India has ever built? The claim that merchants will absorb the cost instead of consumers is absurd. There isn't a single fee or tax levied on businesses in India that doesn't ultimately get passed down to the buyer. A 0.4% fee, even capped at ₹300 per transaction, will simply be tacked onto consumer bills, driving people right back to using cash.
Imagine being given somewhere around 80 years on a planet floating through an incomprehensibly enormous universe, surrounded by billions of people you will never meet, mysteries you will never solve, places you will never see, and more knowledge than you could absorb in a thousand lifetimes...
and spending the whole damn thing worrying about money, arguing with strangers, impressing people you don't even like, and doing something you hate five days a week because somebody convinced you that was life.
I don't know, man.
I think we may have gotten a few things terribly wrong.
Watching Hanuman Ansh again. Recliner seats. Most expensive. Still it’s houseful.
If Bollywood thinks, it can recreate such a film, pick a revered figure, create a linear biopic, with a lot of miracles, and bhajans. It won’t be able to.
Why Hanuman Ansh works is in itself a miracle. It the latest one in the long list of Baba’s extra-ordinary feats. The real reason is its purity. No attempts to manipulate the audience. Whenever a devotee comes with an ailment, an illness, Baba advises to show it to a doctor first.
There are no twists & turns. No villains. No 3rd act. It’s just pristine. Like a bhajan your grandparent sang. It instantly puts you at ease. A nostalgic trip you never thought existed for you. It just works.
Hindu Monk Chinmay Krishna Das Prabhu touched the feet of Radha-Krishna in Pundarik Dham temple of #Chattragram before being taken to jail yet again. He was given merely few hours of parole to see mortal remains of his mother for one last time.
I worked at Google DeepMind and now at Anthropic. This is a common sentiment amongst my peers.
(I write this in personal capacity.)
There is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recursively self-improving AI. Please look up!
If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because “it’s happening anyway” - or take this moment to call for different conditions?
I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities.
Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.
A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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.
Anticipatory bail has just been denied to @ajeetbharti in the case where the FIR against him invoked draconian SC/ST act provisions. Ajeet's remarks were a reaction to provocation involving his sister. He could be jailed for up to 7 years.
I stand with Ajeet. And so should you.
Heartbreaking Visual from Nepal 💔
Little boy caring his younger sister 🥹 and finding their parents 😭.
Look at the pain and scratches on their faces. 💔💔💔
@GabbbarSingh A civilization that crawls through garbage to ingest fleeting, rotten comfort has not only abandoned its dignity, it has openly surrendered its soul to decay.