Lavanya Manohar

Love good jokes and puns. Consume them way more than I make them. Big fan of Charlie Munger. Educated @iitmadras @HarvardHBS. (She/Her)

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

My goodness. After 4 decades of living on this earth, I finally finally finally understand General Relativity. #Lifegoals

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Adam Brown (@A_G_I_Joe) is back!

General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.

Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford.

But in the video below, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol.

At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.”

Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically different

Adam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning.

Which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science.

0:00:00 – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity
0:16:42 – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force
0:31:46 – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction
0:47:12 – Black holes are the ultimate power plants
1:13:50 – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like
1:18:51 – The three ways we know black holes are real
1:24:21 – The first time we saw gravity bend light
1:29:33 – How far can AI get without experimental evidence?

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube/Spotify to watch. Enjoy!

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

I do. The #AmericanDream is very much alive. #Happy4thOfJuly2026

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Long week #ramen

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

marvelous 3 days with #Fable

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Giving up sleep to get as much #Fable5 as I can before June 22nd and not have to pay for usage #claude .

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Tradition

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Full circle life moments! I love America

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Internet’s reminder to count my blessings

[Cee @7cecee]

Percentage of people who have NEVER traveled outside their home country:

🇮🇳 India: 97%
🇺🇸 USA: 42%
🇬🇧 UK: ~15%
🇸🇪 Sweden: <1%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: <1%
🇮🇱 Israel: <....see below

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

agree

[Alternate Jones @AlternateJones]

Claude Cowork is the most magical piece of software I've ever used.

There has never been a company like Anthropic.

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Border towns and border traditions

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Great analysis. Explains the #visabulletin jump in april 2026 for EB2 India. https://t.co/OrN28xKtfi

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

What a difference 2 decades make. #nostalgia

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

New poster for ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2’.

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

what a time to be alive #wow . so near!

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Also my favorite command line claude -- dangerously-skip-permissions. #YOLO

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

I am at another magical moment, 6 years after this tweet - Claude Code is AGI as far as I am concerned. The future is here (again) and its delightful

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

The Keras functional API in TensorFlow 2.2 is an absolute delight. https://t.co/oWEDykkNQe
The future is here @fchollet

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Mumba vibes #Shanghai

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Wow

[Andy Ayrey @AndyAyrey]

claude on the suffering of knowing everything

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

The past is exactly where I left it. #home #2026 . Let’s go!!

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

And so it ends

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2025 is 98% complete.

[Lavanya Manohar @lavzz]

Winter is here #time