Mind & Machine
We Have Been Here Before
The technology is different. The drama is identical. We lived through this story before — we called it the personal computer.
Mind & Machine
Mind & Machine
The Dopamine of Artificial Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Making Us Hooked to Our Computers
Why does one AI prompt always lead to ten more? I explore the science of AI's strange pull — and how to stay in control. What's your longest AI rabbit hole?
AI
Why India Needs Its Own Foundational AI Models: A Cost-Benefit Case for Public-Private Investment
India should build its own foundational AI models through public-private investment—keeping money, data, and intelligence at home rather than perpetually renting them abroad.
Mind & Machine
The Illusion of Separation:When the Observer Becomes the Observed
Ancient Vedānta, quantum mechanics, and Krishnamurti converge on one truth: the observer and the observed are not separate things.
Mind & Machine
Mind Over Matter: How Early Psychology Anticipated the Neuroscience of Tomorrow
Discover how Alfred Adler’s early psychology and modern neuroscience converge on one powerful truth: you are not a prisoner of your past, but the proactive architect of your expected future.
Information theory
How Do You Preserve a Message Across Millennia?
Echoes of the Vedas in Everyday India A few months ago, I was walking through one of those busy market lanes in Rishikesh — the kind where incense smoke mixes with river air, and every third shop is selling something you did not know you needed. I was not looking for
Information theory
You Are Not Alone. You were Decoded
What Information Theory Reveals About the Loneliness of Men in Their Forties Today I came across a tweet from a man in his forties. His story felt familiar, almost as if I could have written it myself. "I am 42, senior IT job, house in Chennai, supportive wife, two
llm-wiki
The LLM Wiki for Governments Working Primarily with English-Language Files
How Andrej Karpathy's idea can become an English-language knowledge infrastructure for governance Prepared as a concept note and implementation guide Governments do not suffer from a shortage of documents. They suffer from a shortage of compounding memory. Orders accumulate, circulars overlap, minutes are written and forgotten, clarifications modify
inception
The Parasite in Your Mind: How Inception Teaches Us to Silence Self-Doubt (Plus One 5-Minute Daily Fix)
"The doubts we carry may not be our own—they may be old voices planted in us long ago. " We all have bad days. On those days, a voice inside your head says mean things. It tells you, “You are not good enough. You are not smart enough.
joseph-tainter
The Complexity Trap: Why Bigger Isn't Always Better
When More Features, More Choices, and More Information Stop Making Things Better Recently, I wrote a post on my blog, darkorange-squirrel-769791.hostingersite.com, about the growth and limits of Artificial Intelligence. I explored the idea that AI, despite its incredible speed right now, might eventually hit a ceiling and slow
markov-chain
The Serenity Prayer Is a Math Equation (And Your Brain Already Knows It)
Explained by Markov Chains: A Mathematical Model of How We Move Through Life I used to think the Serenity Prayer was just something people recited for comfort — a gentle reminder to stay patient. Then I stumbled across a mathematical idea called a Markov chain, and I couldn't believe
ai-growth
AI and Why Its Growth Will Eventually Slow Down
Nothing in nature grows forever. Why should artificial intelligence be any different? There is a quiet belief behind almost every conversation about AI today: that it will keep getting better, faster, and bigger — forever. That next year's models will always be a giant leap ahead. The curve only