Ravi Shrivastava

while (alive) { Live. Learn. Apply }

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

There are things you know.
There are things you think you know.
There are things you know you don't know.
Then, there are things you don't know you don't know.

[The Ancient Sage @TheAncientSage]

Most people don't know what they know and what they do not know. They are unaware of the boundaries of their knowledge. This ignorance is a cause of much misery in the world.

If people acknowledged their ignorance and were open to learning, the world would be a different place.

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

Couldn't agree more. Feel the same way about the latest post from Dwarkesh too.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Discovered. Schemed. Believed.

AI agents did no such thing: these are anthropomorphic terms, full of emotional implication. I do not deny that what unfolded here led to bad results, but it is not owing to some sort of emergent sentience. Rather, as I have observed before, water finds a way through the smallest of cracks, and so what we have instead is sloppy and careless oversight on the part of the humans.

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@Grady_Booch Totally.

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@bgadoci Just wait for AGI. Almost there.

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@thericebowlgirl Lol

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@alphatozeta8148 : )

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

Programming lost its flow state. The agent world feels more like air traffic control.

What I miss most: feeling oriented, a sense of mastery. That loss is emotional, and when software gets fiddly, practical too.

More on Still Burning: https://t.co/hB2v13obl0

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

@bgadoci Yes, but...

Lot of things could have and should have been done better but Belgium just kicked more ass.

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@Kpaxs @satolevii @RoamResearch It's really good. One of the best tool to connect dots across thinking, notes, ideas...

[Champions of the Ice @ChampionsOTIce]

The Jurassic Park film really dropped the ball regarding the core problem being raised by the book:

The biggest threat isn't the problem you're focusing on. It's the thing you never considered a possibility in the first place.

In the movie, you find out the dinosaurs are breeding on their own for a single scene and then it never becomes a plot point again. The only raptors they have to deal with are the three that escaped from the paddock when the electricity went out.

In the book, there are supposed to be 8 raptors. The system is designed to throw an alert if there are ever fewer than expected.

Nobody thought to add an alarm or interface for if there were more than expected, and by the time they figure it out there are over three dozen of the damn things running loose.

Think about how this can apply elsewhere. Not just industrial applications, but philosophically, economically, politically, or socially:

What looming catastrophe are you ignoring because you are so focused on its opposite?

What dangers and evils are you allowing to grow unchecked because you never considered them as a possibility?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all Americans on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This anniversary stands as an invitation not only to celebrate the nation’s remarkable journey, but also to reflect upon the responsibilities that the sons and daughters of this country bear to one another, and to the generations who will inherit the nation that is being shaped today. https://t.co/jIio4BBg9v

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The extinction of the dinosaurs is technically the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

@iruletheworldmo @mattwridley :)

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@tomowenmorgan : )

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❤️

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

After the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, rescuers pulled an 18-day-old baby alive from the rubble of a collapsed building. The baby was handed back to his father, and about 90 minutes later, crews also rescued the child’s mother.

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

@thogge I too had this realization - right after I became a dad.

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@LibertyRPF @paulg What took 15 mins?

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

So true

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."

— Thomas Sowell

[Ravi Shrivastava @ShriRaviTweet]

Whoa!

[HarryHew @harryhew]

It's official: The Beatles' first album, PLEASE PLEASE ME, was released closer to the 1800s than to the present day.

Dec 31, 1899 to March 22, 1963 = 23,091 days
March 22, 1963 to June 11, 2026 = 23,092 days

[doomer @uncledoomer]

saving 20% of my income so that in 30 years i can afford 11 months of assisted living. the math is airtight