コシク

Novice potter. Designer.

[コシク @kshik_]

Calling this done for now. I have one more variant planned, which I will hopefully complete by tomorrow.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

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Pope knows AI is going to replace religions worldwide.

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Innovate after copying. I can get behind that. But when? After the crash?

[NPCI @NPCI_NPCI]

As global technology giants commit hundreds of billions of dollars to AI, should India follow the same playbook?
In this episode of NPCI’s Innovators Playground Podcast, @svembu shares why India’s AI advantage may lie in a different strategy altogether.

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This was me before I quit tech. Doesn’t apply to me anymore 👽

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person

Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption

I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community

I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work

I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity

Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson

There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom

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Vase in the making

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@KiranjitDas86 Netflix and Apple TV have customers all over the world, where they charge way more than this, and hence can offer discounts to Indians.

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@hellonehha Most parts of the world want to store their wealth in USD. Petro-dollar is the greatest illusion ever created.

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@KiranjitDas86 Maybe if they increase it little by little, we won't feel the pain.

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@visakanv Accomplishments are not a good proxy for a virtuous person. In fact choose someone who doesn’t seek to be recognized as an accomplished person.

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@scriptnull It's a big book. Haven't read though.

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How many business days till he reaches?

[العربية عاجل @AlArabiya_Brk]

مصادر العربية: قائد الجيش الباكستاني في طريقه إلى طهران #العربية_عاجل

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@Niftyhunter How can we beat trump? The world's best trader.

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@Magicbullindia Pali-Khopoli, Satara-Mahabaleshwar is even better. On a motorcycle.

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@scriptnull Idk if Substack gives out rss feed. Most of my consumption is on substack these days but I don't want to open the app because it has also become like every other social media.

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@patrickc One thing I do know is that it will involve both physical and digital media. It could be “Steam Punk” or “Soulful utilitarianism”.

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@patrickc Interesting. I was drafting a project called “objects of the future” just a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it is time for me to flesh it out. However, I feel there can be no unified aesthetic that will be adopted all over the world because cultural aesthetics vary a lot.

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Extended AI use atrophies your imagination

Say you want to think through a certain problem you are facing. You could immediately ask a chatbot to get some surface-level answers to your problems.

If the problem is not urgent and you can put off the decision for a while to think it through, you can completely change your outlook on it. You may even realise that whatever was bothering you was not a problem in the first place, and that you can simply choose not to take any action.

This type of wisdom comes only from the embodied experience of facing such situations repeatedly and failing. AI can not do this. It cannot embody an experience. It only has weights and a pre-defined decision-making tree.

I watched an interview with Airbnb's founder a long time ago, where he explained how they come up with product ideas. They use storyboards to think through customer experience like a movie. This involves an incredible amount of imagination and visualisation.

They also stretch the conventional norms of customer experience. What if an Airbnb booking experience is a 10-star experience? What would that look like? Maybe the customer would get an Uber Black pre-booked to wait for them at the airport, and the town's mayor would welcome them with a marching band. Of course, it is ridiculous, but that is the power of imagination.

I enjoy the MOBA game genre, and I can think of many analogies between the game and running a business. What is the local market, and how can I reach a particular target with the resources I have? How can I gather the resources without running myself to the ground? Do I think about competition or change the game that I am playing?

However, there are pros and cons to this method, and it may not work out if you choose the wrong idea. You'll need to choose the right analogy for your situation.

We think the chatbots are somehow intelligent enough to know everything about our existence and to make decisions for us. In fact, the biggest problem right now is that they don’t have all the information about our existence. Reality is changing every day, every minute, and the chatbot doesn’t know it. Which means they cannot make the optimal decision for us.

This is why people advocate for continual learning, in which AI agents learn as they gain more information. Then again, the problem is data-gathering. Gathering data in the digital realm is easy. But capturing what is happening in the real world requires sensors and cameras, raising significant privacy concerns.

The hope of a personal, customised JARVIS is still a long way off. AI cannot embody a real-world experience, but we can. We gather so much data about our surroundings that influence our decisions. So do not offload your decision-making or creative process to these chatbots.

Just like how the muscles in your body atrophy if you don’t use them, and how your competence in a third language quickly vanishes if you don’t speak it often, your ability to solve problems creatively will also atrophy if you don’t stretch your thinking regularly.

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The Eternal Tug Of War

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction - Newton’s Third Law of Motion.

For every mainstream narrative, there is a counter-narrative.

Democracy has a ruling party and an opposing party (however ineffective it may be)

Everyone worked from home, stayed anonymous and enjoyed earning money online, but now IRL is considered the new URL.

People sick of corporate culture oppose it by starting their own business. People who were perennially online switch to an entirely physical medium.

Yanagi, Hamada and co. Started a counter-culture Mingei movement to oppose industrially produced wares.

We, as humans, cannot help but create these opposing forces to keep our lives in balance. We get stuck arguing over partial truths. A cylinder can be observed as a circle or a rectangle. Neither is right nor wrong.

Every idea or ideology has its strengths and weaknesses. If both sides do not acknowledge each other, is synthesis even possible? Our existence will always be in a state of flux.