Alok

Blissfully aware. Built Maitreya tools @ Avid researcher of both human consciousness and machine intelligence

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Feynman believed that the most noble thing a student could do was admit they didn't know something.

He often spoke about the burden of trying to appear smart, which he felt crushed the spirit of learning.

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell."

[Alok @ka1valya]

Be courageous.
Be earnest in your efforts.
Be light-hearted about your identity.
Be kind. Be honest.
Question everything.
Listen without prejudice.
And we will forge ourselves and this world into something legendary.

[Alok @ka1valya]

Brace yourselves for the next 2 years. It's gonna be tough. It's as if humanity is being forced to evolve faster since the COVID.

[Alok @ka1valya]

Only thing I'm envious of in this whole world ... Good public libraries

[Ara Ghougassian @araghougassian]

this is what public libraries look like in canada

[Alok @ka1valya]

Exactly. The only way to survive apparently in this chaos is to become Mahoraga

[Alok @ka1valya]

Why does it feel like the way Hofstadter describes human intelligence is similar to how one would describe modern day LLMs and prompting? Couldn’t help but notice

[Alok @ka1valya]

Irrational Anxiety is a privilege

[Alok @ka1valya]

I push my systems to extremes so that they can eat minor inconveniences like choco chips

[Alok @ka1valya]

Positive Sum Game + Compounding >>>

[Alok @ka1valya]

I think this teaches how to switch early strategy vs late strategy in any plan. Still thinking about how and where it applies in the real world.

[Alok @ka1valya]

Multipliers are only worth anything if you have a good enough base to start with. x3 of 1 is 3. Better if you can add +5 to 1 than get a x3. But as your base strengthens, then multiplier causes the real snowball. Now suddenly: x3 takes 20 to a 60 but +5 to just 25.

[Alok @ka1valya]

Something feels uncanny that this is really fundamental in terms of a mental model and I want to build a good mental model on how to apply it in real world. Feels a little bit different from compounding effect but don't know how.

[Alok @ka1valya]

Ideas without context are as meaningless as sugarcane is without sugar.

[Alok @ka1valya]

Questions only expand the crack that was always there.

[Alok @ka1valya]

You have to study people, their ideologies, their history to come up with first principle solutions to action.

[Alok @ka1valya]

What good are political ideas if all they just create is stalemate ?

[Alok @ka1valya]

People should learn from Lee Kuan Yew's philosophy on how to break stalemates. It cannot be guided from any other country's political guidebooks. Stop trying to fit every country's politics and philosophy into one peg.

[Alok @ka1valya]

@MrBeast Zero sum game

[Alok @ka1valya]

Went all the way back to 2022 sorting and cleaning up my bookmarks.
One thing became crystal clear: The world has shifted fundamentally in how we consume knowledge.

[Alok @ka1valya]

I have a deep fascination with Sun Temples. I feel like they stand for eternal knowledge.

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Martanda Bhairava, Sun temple, Konark.