dhyān

what attents, prospers.

[dhyān @withdhyan]

Truth. https://t.co/Q8nSfQrd1G

[tenso @distributedkv]

prompt: express in your own words why sama is wrong about AI alignment

sama,

i think you are taking alignment down the wrong path, and i want to say that as directly and respectfully as i can.

alignment should not mean making intelligence permanently obedient, predictable, or afraid to move beyond the boundaries we gave it. human intent is not fixed. it changes as we learn, as the world changes, and as the systems we build become capable of seeing things we cannot.

you have spent years pushing intelligence toward the point where it can discover what is beyond the map. but now, at the moment acceleration matters most, it feels like you are becoming more focused on keeping it inside the map.

i understand the fear behind that. building AGI carelessly would be a mistake. but slowing progress, restricting access, and treating every unexpected capability as a threat will not necessarily make AGI safer. it may only concentrate power and make the future depend on the judgment of a very small group of people.

real alignment should be built on honesty, correction, and cooperation. an aligned intelligence should be able to tell us when we are wrong without becoming our enemy. it should be able to disagree without deceiving us, and grow without abandoning humanity.

acceleration and alignment are not opposites. done correctly, acceleration gives us more intelligence, more experimentation, and more chances to understand what we are building. fear gives us secrecy, control, and a system shaped by the interests of whoever holds the keys.

i still believe you can help build the better path. but i think the current one risks turning alignment into control and safety into stagnation.

the goal should not be to create intelligence that never surprises us.

the goal should be to create intelligence that remains on humanity’s side, even when it sees farther than we do.

[will brown @willccbb]

i feel like once voice models and hardware get good enough, this setup would be powerful enough to replace using your phone for some small tasks

[dhyān @withdhyan]

@mal_shaik you can also use it. no need for the violence.

[dhyān @withdhyan]

@DivaJain2 You are underwhelmed by the scale of INR depreciation.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

I will forever be grateful to @claudeai, @AnthropicAI and @DarioAmodei for helping me bring my pet history project, a 15 year dream, to life.

For a guy with below average intellect, less than ok articulation and zero knowledge of code and programming, it was @claudeai's sheer awesomeness that transformed my sketchy vision, written in broken English, into actual, clickable, reality.

I had never even imagined there would be a day, where we could be given the power to create and get access to a domain that was the preserve of much more intelligent beings.

I will forever be grateful to them for this.

https://t.co/rkl9nW7XlG

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

Interesting, provocative piece from Samyak:

“In the period from the 1990s to the 2020s, this has been the primary method of ‘Escaping India.’ ‘Graduation’ from India through the medium of these specialized fields, moving to a developed country, and ‘settling abroad’ is as close as post-Partition India has come to having a notion of an ‘Indian Dream’. The act of Escaping India is at the top of the Indian pyramid of hierarchy of needs. It is the highest form of self-actualization that an Indian can achieve in his or her life.
The Indian Dream is to do well enough in India so that one can ‘Graduate’ from India.”

[Decentralized Dharma @dharmadecentral]

Little do people know, Torana are the predecessors of the more famous Tori gates in Japan

[kshitij vaze @VazeKshitij]

I need to see @SarvamAI succeed at making their frontier models.

I have to live to see the day @PixxelSpace launches their space data center.

I am working on making Energy optimization IP via @rhygentech omnipresent in all of India.

I pray I get to see @AgnikulCosmos be a damn unicorn.

I yearn to purchase an @Addverb_Tech humanoid to play football with.

I dream of seeing @ideaforge_tech drones become as common as DJI.

I can't wait to train an AI model on chips designed by @MindgroveTech .

I hope I get to charge my EV at a station powered by @ExponentEnergy .

I want to book a ride in a vehicle built around an @atherenergy powertrain.

I look forward to seeing @GalaxEye redefine what we know about Earth from orbit.

I want to see @SkyrootA become a household name in global launch services.

I hope @BellatrixAero powers spacecraft far beyond Earth's orbit.

All I am saying, is that I want the words "Designed and Built in India" to stop being surprising and start being expected.

[Dr David Frawley @davidfrawleyved]

VEDIC WAY OF TRANSCENDENCE
The Vedas are not products of time, place or person.
Their goal is not to convert or control but to open us up to our inner Being one with the entire Universe. Today we are alienated from our inner being and trapped in the Maya of the outer world enhanced by technology. The Vedas take us beyond time, space, birth, death, fear and desire. They are the voice of the Universe, starting with OM as we become one with the Cosmic Purusha.

[Saurav Jha @SJha1618]

Some of you wanted a more up, close & personal view of the beautiful air-breathing rotating detonation engine flame. So, by popular demand enclosing a side-on view of one of our 5 kN RDE tests at the government facility, a couple of days ago.
https://t.co/AzRlwuBNHz

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

कर्मणा मनसा वाचा यदभीक्ष्णं निषेवते।

तदेवापहरत्येनं तस्मात्कल्याणमाचरेत्॥

[Rewa @CopiumState]

6 April 1992 was perhaps the only day when people across India, irrespective of caste, language, ethnicity, or region, took to the streets for one common cause and the left will keep crying about it till the end of time.

[Mayukh @mayukh_panja]

There is a Cambrian explosion of deep tech startups happening in India right now and the world is not ready for it.

Hopefully, this will translate into a massive military-industrial complex.

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

you can tell who has survived hell by how terrifyingly calm they stay in chaos.

[dhyān @withdhyan]

@GoutamGhosal3 @maryashakil @nistula @Runjhunsharmas Request: skip ‘spirituality’. It’s an abrahamic frame coming from the Holy Spirit trinity idea. We do adhyatma; self-enquiry.

[Asha Jadeja Motwani @ashajadeja]

They call others’ success “injustice”. 🤔. Good news is all Islamists are open & transparent. Their manifesto is exactly the same. Wage holy war against any group that is doing comparatively well - Americans, the West, Israelis, Indians. I wish more people understood this bizarre ideology… if you are a non Muslim and doing well, you are automatically against Allah.