Sabuj Chattopadhyay

The Order Within Chaos. Pronouns: His majesty/His Excellency

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@frontierindica Not to mention that the real smart Indians are a very insignificant percentage of total Indians. These smart people migrated abroad in the previous decades creating the "Indians are smart" narrative while the median IQ of the nation only went further down

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@sabeer @Saif_HDS @MehnazHyderMD Private property is the central tenet of capitalism. And how I dispose of my property is entirely my choice. Any infringement to that is totalitarianism

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@sabeer @Saif_HDS @MehnazHyderMD You are not a citizen of India and talented and wealthy citizens of India are leaving India in droves just like you did) precisely because of anti meritocratic and socialist politics you peddle

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@Saif_HDS @sabeer @MehnazHyderMD Anyone who thinks that state power should be used to snatch your own built wealth is the real abuser. And I have already made my point. He is enjoying the benefits of capitalism and recommending idiotic socialist policies for India. He is not even an Indian citizen

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@sabeer Stick with American politics or else become an Indian citizen and live under the proposal you are suggesting. Stop this priestly preaching about things that don't concern you

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@sabeer @Saif_HDS @MehnazHyderMD Are you giving away 55% of your wealth duffer? You are not even an Indian and are enjoying the capitalist and meritocratic life in US. So kindly shut the fuck up asshole

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@AdJayakumardhan @DeepikaBhardwaj CrPC 125 is not gender neutral

[Venice @AskVenice]

ChatGPT with guardrails you didn't ask for. Venice gives you the same power, none of the censorship. No prompt storage, no judgment, no BS.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

India the Perennial Soft State

The decision to let American covert operative Matthew VanDyke and six Ukrainian drone specialists quietly leave India is more than an isolated legal reversal. It belongs to a long and uncomfortable tradition in which New Delhi invokes its tough criminal laws and then retreats when geopolitical pressure builds up.

VanDyke, a veteran of covert wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, was arrested in March alongside six military-trained Ukrainian partners. According to Indian court filings, the group belonged to a larger international network that smuggled drones into India before routing them onward to Myanmar. The National Investigation Agency initially invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, India’s premier anti-terrorism statute.

Then came the dramatic climbdown. After U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally raised VanDyke’s detention with New Delhi, the NIA dropped the UAPA charges. VanDyke and all six Ukrainians have now been released on bail and permitted to return home.

The episode recalls a familiar pattern. From the Bhopal gas disaster and the Purulia arms-drop affair to the Enrica Lexie Italian-marines case and Ottavio Quattrocchi’s escape in the Bofors scandal, India has repeatedly seen high-profile criminal proceedings against foreign nationals or entities diluted, abandoned or rendered inconsequential under diplomatic or strategic pressure.

Different cases, different Indian governments, but the same question endures: What makes India such a soft state that it so often fails to enforce accountability when powerful foreign interests are involved?

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@AnkitaGiggles @Punit_Pania I challenge you to take a paper and be able to solve even one question in the paper. I presume you have passed your high school "Dr"

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@Punit_Pania Low IQ failed comedians like you should stop making a fool of yourself in public

[Ananthan Ayyasamy @AnanthAyyasamy]

I strongly oppose the charges against Prof. Suryanarayana Doolla of IIT Bombay under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

My background: I belong to the Devendra Kula Vellalar (DKV) community, classified as SC. I grew up in deep rural poverty and witnessed the suffering of my people first-hand. I was educated thanks to broad-minded people from many communities.

I studied Electronics at NIT Tiruchirappalli, worked at C-DOT Bengaluru, and then at Intel in India and the US, where I rose to Engineering Director and Senior Silicon Architect, responsible for high-speed interconnects vital to modern CPUs and GPUs. I hold multiple patents in this field.

I share this to make clear that I know what it means to come from an SC community and rise through hard work and commitment.

Our DKV community has taken a principled, voluntary stand not to file SC/ST cases against anyone. We have seen how cases under this Act are weaponised, and how that deepens enmity on the ground.

On that basis, I oppose the misuse of this Act in this case. The case against Prof. Doolla must be withdrawn. This matters for the future of SC/ST students and for our nation.

Jai Hind 🙏

@AmitShah @Dev_Fadnavis

[Handre @Handre]

Learn Austrian Economics in one X post:

1. Humans act. Every choice a person makes traces back to an incentive, a trade-off, a cost weighed against a benefit. Remove the incentive and the action stops. Distort the incentive and the action warps.

Tax income at 90% and watch producers stop producing. Subsidize failure and watch failure multiply. The behavior follows the reward structure, always.

2. Value exists only in the mind of the person choosing. A glass of water is worth nothing to a drowning man and everything to a man dying of thirst. No central authority can calculate this, because it changes with every individual and every circumstance.

Nothing has value in itself, only the degree to which humans choose to value it. Diamonds and even gold only carry value because humans decided they do.

3. Money does not come from a government decree. It emerged spontaneously when traders needed something durable, divisible, and widely accepted to escape the limitations of direct barter. Gold won that competition across centuries and across dozens of independent civilizations because the market, not a ministry, chose it.

Fiat currency is the state hijacking that evolved institution and replacing it with paper backed by nothing but a legal threat. Every central bank on earth operates on this model right now.

4. Wealth does not fall from the sky. A farmer who eats his entire harvest produces nothing next season. The farmer who saves seed, plants it, and specializes in what he grows best accumulates a surplus. That surplus is capital. Capital funds everything that comes after.

Consumption without prior production is just burning down the furniture for warmth. Every welfare state eventually reaches this point.

5. Strip private property rights and production collapses. A farmer will work his own land until midnight. That same farmer, working collective land, stops at noon. The Soviet Union ran this experiment across seventy years and killed tens of millions, proving the point.

When you cannot own the outcome, you do not produce the outcome.

6. Voluntary trade generates wealth from nothing but mutual preference. When you pay twelve dollars for a meal, you value the meal above twelve dollars; the restaurant values twelve dollars above the meal. Both parties walk away wealthier in real terms. No politician, no regulator, no bureaucrat added anything.

Protectionism destroys this. The 2018 US steel tariffs raised steel prices for American manufacturers, killed more jobs in steel-consuming industries than existed in steel production itself, and transferred wealth from productive firms to a protected few.

7. Ludwig von Mises identified inflation as a tax. Every dollar the Federal Reserve creates without corresponding production dilutes every dollar you already hold. The new money flows first to the government and its contractors, who spend it at current prices. By the time it reaches you, prices have already risen.

The US M2 money supply grew from roughly 15 trillion dollars in January 2020 to over 21 trillion by early 2022. Consumer prices followed. Your savings took the loss.

8. Prices carry information. A price spike tells producers to produce more and tells consumers to use less. It coordinates millions of strangers without a single central command. Interfere with that signal and the coordination breaks.

Rent control in New York City is the cleanest example. Cap rents below market and landlords stop maintaining buildings, stop building new ones, and convert units to other uses. The people rent control was supposed to help pay the price through collapsing supply.

9. Interest rates are the price of capital over time. When the Federal Reserve pushed rates to near zero between 2008 and 2022, it told every investor that capital was nearly free. Businesses built projects that only made sense at zero percent. When rates normalized, the projects failed. The 2022 collapse of the US tech sector and the crypto market were not random events. They were the correction of a decade of artificially cheap capital.

The business cycle is not a mystery of capitalism. Central banks manufacture it.

10. Bureaucrats face no profit and loss. A businessman who misallocates capital goes bankrupt. A bureaucrat who misallocates capital writes a report requesting more funding. The feedback loop that disciplines markets simply does not exist inside a government agency.

The US Department of Education has spent over a trillion dollars since 1980. Literacy rates have not improved. No one at the department has been bankrupted by this outcome.

11. Every producer inside a local market holds knowledge that no bureaucrat in a capital city can replicate. A wheat farmer in Kansas tracks soil moisture, futures prices, local equipment costs, his specific buyer relationships, and a hundred other variables simultaneously. That knowledge lives in the price he sets.

Friedrich Hayek called this tacit knowledge in 1945. The Soviet central planners ignored him and spent fifty years proving him correct, producing chronic shortages of goods that private markets coordinate effortlessly. No model, no algorithm, and no committee can compress what millions of independent actors know into a single plan.

12. Every government intervention produces effects you see and effects you don't. You see the road the state builds. You don't see the factory the tax dollars never funded, the job that never existed, the innovation that never happened because capital was extracted at gunpoint and redirected by bureaucrats with no skin in the game.

Take the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program. Congress destroyed 690,000 working cars, handed dealers a short-term spike, and you saw the sales numbers. The used car market was stripped of affordable inventory, pricing working-class buyers out for years afterward.

13. Prices, supply chains, and language itself coordinate millions of strangers without any central planner issuing a single command. That coordination is spontaneous order: complex, functional patterns that emerge from individuals pursuing their own goals under rules they did not collectively design. No committee holds the dispersed local knowledge required to replicate what voluntary exchange produces every second.

Watch how English evolved. No king designed its grammar. Millions of speakers across centuries adopted words and structures that worked, dropped ones that didn't, and produced a language richer than any bureaucrat could have engineered. Central planners who believe they can replicate that process with price controls or production quotas destroy the feedback mechanism that generates the order in the first place.

Thanks for reading this long post! What would you add to this list?

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@GunhaonKaDevta @Ashneer_Grover How about instead of listing titles like a dumbfuck, you actually address the argument?

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

Women hate inherent advantage more than they hate almost anything else. Not unfairness they can lobby against or some rule they can rewrite. I mean the kind of advantage you can't earn, vote out, regulate away, or workshop into “equity”. And there is probably nothing more inherently advantageous in a woman than being naturally beautiful.

That’s basically first principles. Female sexual market value is front-loaded, immediately visible, and brutally uneven. Beauty compresses status, attention, optionality and male investment into a single glance. It arrives before the résumé, before the politics, before the personality. You can get smarter. You can get richer. You cannot vote yourself a face. (They can TRY, but it's pure cope to think a filler-face has anything on a naturally beautiful one.)

So the woman who got it without even asking becomes a walking reminder that the game was never fair and, more importantly, never will be.

Men don’t hate the hot guy in quite the same way bc male competition isn’t organized around one unearned trait. Height helps. Looks help. Obviously. But men still have to do something. Male status is weirdly multi-axis: competence, dominance, money, humor, usefulness, physicality, whatever. A handsome man can be an opponent in one arena and your fucking bro in another. More importantly, men are competing for the beautiful woman, not against her existence. Her advantage is the prize, not the insult.

Women are competing against the beautiful woman. Directly. Same pool. Same men. Same scarce attention. Same social hierarchy. And beauty can be brutally zero-sum in a way male handsomeness often isn’t. You cannot cooperate your way around some woman walking into a room and rearranging the hierarchy without saying a single fucking word. That is real power btw and most women never get to experience it.

So the resentment gets moralized bc you obviously cannot just say “I resent that this bitch won the genetic lottery.” That sounds petty and insane. It has to become “she’s setting women back,” “she’s upholding the patriarchy,” “she’s catering to the male gaze,” “her body is a political resource she’s using incorrectly.” Or my personal favorite: “she's a pick-me.” Same impulse. Perceived better branding.

This is why Sydney Sweeney produces a specific kind of derangement that no equivalently hot man ever seems to. She didn’t cheat. She didn’t oppress anyone. She just showed up already holding the thing a lot of women spend their entire lives trying to approximate. Men look at that and compete harder. Women look at that and start drafting ethics codes for her gigantic wonderful undeniable knockers.

You can dress it up as theory all day. Women’s Studies literally taught me how. But underneath all the academic word salad, I think a lot of it is still the very ancient human experience of resenting an advantage you cannot redistribute. And beauty is particularly offensive bc it refuses to pretend otherwise.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's real wealth yet decreased the measured GDP. The main economic indicator is structurally incapable of registering the thing that actually makes people better off, namely the growth of knowledge

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The greatest breakthrough in the science of learning over the last century:

[François Chollet @fchollet]

There are three kinds of AI we could be making.

The first kind is cognitive automation: encoding human abstractions in a piece of software and using it to automate tasks normally performed by humans. Nearly all of current machine learning & symbolic AI fall into this category.

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@KanojiaPJ "Laude" bolna SC/ST Act ka violation hai ki "gaand mara"?

[Sabuj Chattopadhyay @Higgs__Field]

@mayukh_panja "It's hard to argue against this"? Lol. Anyone believing in the naive blank slatism seriously is a delusional moron