Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः

सुखम समग्रम विज्ञाने विमलेच प्रतिष्ठितं
All happiness is rooted in good science --Charaka Samhita (4th century BCE)
personal account; usual disclaimers apply.

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

While initially, I used to watch his channel with interest, I now believe that the scorn he has received from Indian commentators is well justified. (end)

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

Pilot Steve received a lot of flak from Indians for prematurely pinning the blame for the AI 171 crash on the pilot's alleged intentional actions. (contd).

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

Does it even occur to him that it is just civilized to be compassionate towards a dead person who might be wrongly framed?

The level of delusion and contempt that he displays is unbelievable! (contd)

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

1/ My three-volume history places the Indian subcontinent at the centre of world civilisation. On the question of continuity, it is the most impressive case on earth, and the one Western scholarship has most consistently underestimated.

2/ At Bhimbetka's 30,000-year-old paintings, a dancing deity with bangles and trident immediately recalls the dancing Shiva of today, as Michael Wood observed, and as I cite in my own work. A 14,000-year-old yoni stone near Allahabad was recognised on sight by local villagers. This demonstrates continuity. Therefore the seal is a middle chapter in the whole story.

3/ The argument that Indian sacred symbols require a Elamite or steppe source was constructed in the 19th century by Max Muller, who never visited India. He later called his 1,500 BC date for the Rig Veda 'merely hypothetical.' Subsequent historians copied the original date and ignored the retraction. Voltaire said 'everything has come to us from the banks of the Ganges.' He was wrong about most things but right about this.

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

AI and the Prisoners' Dilemma.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

Dharma eva hatho hamthi, dharmo rakshati rakshitah

“Dharma, destroyed, destroys; dharma when protected, protects”

Internet was awesome as the sum total of human knowledge and agency— representing collective dharma. We destroyed its agency and it turn destroyed knowledge.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

One of my favourite sites in the early days of the Internet.

[Elias Suess @doctrsuess]

@itsme_urstruly There used to be a cool website called "StumbleUpon" where you'd click a button and it would go to a random website. As it evolved, you could choose categories of interest

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

Yep.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

Connecting area of a circle with its circumference, visually.

[Science Simplified @Scivf4]

Area of circle

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

Source of some common idioms

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You better believe it...

1. IN the 1400s, a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, hence we have 'The rule of thumb'.

2. Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden', and thus the word GOLF entered the English language.

3 Each King in a deck of playing cards, represents a great 'King' in history;

Spades - King David

Hearts, Charlemagne

Clubs, Alexander the Great

Diamonds, Julius Caesar

4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bedframes by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress support tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on, hence, the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight'.

5. It was accepted practice in Babylon 4000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'Honey month', which we know of today as the 'Honeymoon'.

6. Since 1966, English fans have said they are going to win the cup at the start of every football competition, hence the phrase, 'Deluded twats'.

[Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः @srinaths]

@sathyashrii Yes.
Insulting any citizen representing the nation, amounts to insulting the nation. The operative word is *insulting* which is an attack on the person.
OTOH, disagreeing with Modi or anyone else on their ideas does not amount to insulting or disagreeing with the nation.