Innovation and the State
While watching an old interview with Max Levchin and Peter Thiel from 2011, something Levchin said about innovation stagnation stood out to me. Levchin argued that one of the things that was noticeable in his time was the impetus and vision provided by heads of States and governments at large with regards to the economic activity that would take place over 15-20 year horizons. Since the Reagan administration in the US, the trend one has observed in Western governments has been one of the Stat...
Innovation and the State
While watching an old interview with Max Levchin and Peter Thiel from 2011, something Levchin said about innovation stagnation stood out to me. Levchin argued that one of the things that was noticeable in his time was the impetus and vision provided by heads of States and governments at large with regards to the economic activity that would take place over 15-20 year horizons. Since the Reagan administration in the US, the trend one has observed in Western governments has been one of the Stat...
Program for non-LLM Artificial Intelligence
I’ve been thinking for a while on the nature of artificial intelligence, and the exponential improvements we’ve seen in the domain over the last couple of years. My skepticism to some degree has felt unfounded, performance on various benchmarks has improved, and the newer models are most certainly significant improvements on the older models, and yet, my skepticism has remained. In this short essay I will attempt to provide a justification for my skepticism, the reasons for my being impressed...
Program for non-LLM Artificial Intelligence
I’ve been thinking for a while on the nature of artificial intelligence, and the exponential improvements we’ve seen in the domain over the last couple of years. My skepticism to some degree has felt unfounded, performance on various benchmarks has improved, and the newer models are most certainly significant improvements on the older models, and yet, my skepticism has remained. In this short essay I will attempt to provide a justification for my skepticism, the reasons for my being impressed...
Post Ideology - Where the Mind is without Fear
Freedom, for most, if not all of us is merely an ideal to strive towards. Freedom, furthermore, is defined with respect to something, freedom from our parents, from the government, freedom from any sort of oppression. In truth, what we seem to seek freedom from the most is fear, fear of loss, of hurt, of suffering. The question we must deal with, most importantly then, becomes whether it is possible for a mind to be without fear, without conditioning. For our mind expends a great deal of ener...
Post Ideology - Where the Mind is without Fear
Freedom, for most, if not all of us is merely an ideal to strive towards. Freedom, furthermore, is defined with respect to something, freedom from our parents, from the government, freedom from any sort of oppression. In truth, what we seem to seek freedom from the most is fear, fear of loss, of hurt, of suffering. The question we must deal with, most importantly then, becomes whether it is possible for a mind to be without fear, without conditioning. For our mind expends a great deal of ener...
Process Epistemology
The problem faced today epistemologically can broadly be described as one of synthesis. By this I mean the fact that the acquisition of knowledge has branched off not just along dual lines of Natural and Human Sciences, but that within these two branches exist a multitude of not just disciplines but methodologies in acquiring knowledge, as well as conceptual frameworks through which problems are looked at within those disciplines. However the problem remains that there exists an underlying un...
Process Epistemology
The problem faced today epistemologically can broadly be described as one of synthesis. By this I mean the fact that the acquisition of knowledge has branched off not just along dual lines of Natural and Human Sciences, but that within these two branches exist a multitude of not just disciplines but methodologies in acquiring knowledge, as well as conceptual frameworks through which problems are looked at within those disciplines. However the problem remains that there exists an underlying un...
Time & Intelligence
The experience of time is one that acts in tandem with consciousness. Here, time refers to both its physical progression and our subjective experience of it. It is an infinite construct, perceived in a localised manner, and the localised perception of this time is what provides us with a ‘stream’ of consciousness. It is also a function of our attention, insofar as one is totally immersed, fully attentive in the present moment, as one is in the presence of a loved one, then time races by. In c...
Time & Intelligence
The experience of time is one that acts in tandem with consciousness. Here, time refers to both its physical progression and our subjective experience of it. It is an infinite construct, perceived in a localised manner, and the localised perception of this time is what provides us with a ‘stream’ of consciousness. It is also a function of our attention, insofar as one is totally immersed, fully attentive in the present moment, as one is in the presence of a loved one, then time races by. In c...
