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Your experiences are fine but don't completely give up and focus on what you can control. Like you can post your thoughts on social media. And don't expect views. Just just write for your own sake.

That would keep you busy and leave room for serendipity.


Quoting from the app "Gary now knows your 'process' talk is just theater. Next time, he'll skip you entirely."

Not at all. Real-life communications are not one-off. I would act differently if Gary does this one-time versus repeatedly.


Understand what you are trying to say but without giving an alternate solution what the reader would do with your thoughts?

Cynicism inherently has no negative connotations. People misrepresented it.

The definition of cynicism as per Google "an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest".

This statement has nothing inherently negative. It's science, backed by evolution. The whole economic system is based on incentive analysis, the concept of invisible hand. Software architects are taught the Principle of least privilege, why? Because of cynicism, not trusting motive of others. But for everyday life people can't handle it mentally coz they love to think everyone giving them without any expectations.

I know this sounds counterintuitive but this space is limited to write more. If you have clarifying question you can ask me.


I mostly read historical books this year, multiple analysis of WW1 and WW2. George Bruce's book on British expedition in Afghanistan in 1939. The peacemaker, on Reagan's presidential tenure. Stalin's 2-part biography. Deng Xiaoping biography. The book Collapse of Soviet Union. Sharlock Holmes collection. And many more.


How do you know whether it is coming from AI scrappers? Do they leave any recognizable footprint?

I am getting lots of noisy traffic since last month and increased my Vercel bill 4x. Not DDoS like, much slower request but not from humans for sure.


Working on AI Coaching App to Make You Anti-Fragile, at https://www.reflectra.app/

Will work on improving the coaching agent to be more empathatic and context-aware. And user accounts.


Working on a original algorithm to explain human behavior from 3rd person perspective (1st stage). The whole research is divided into 6 stages.

In 2nd stage, I will mathematically establish the best course of action as an individual given the base theory.

In 3rd stage, I will explain common psychological phenomenon through the theory, things like narcissism, anxiety, self-doubt, how to forgive others, etc.

In 4th stage, I will explain how the theory is the fastest way to learn across multiple domains and anyone can become a generalist and critical thinker.

In 5th stage, I will explain how society will unfold if everyone can become generalist and critical thinker through the theory. And how this is the next big societal breakthrough like Industrial revolution.

In 6th and last stage, I will think about how to use this theory to make India the next superpower, as this theory can give us the demographic advantage.

Shared more about the algorithm here https://x.com/admiralrohan/status/1973312855114998185


> Working on a original algorithm to explain human behavior from 3rd person perspective (1st stage).

What does that mean?


A unified theory on how humans make decisions. What is the confusion here?


I believe the core challenge in AI robotics is: Can we transfer the cultural knowledge inherent in human bodies and memories?

It's very difficult. Hard to transfer norms, rituals, and intuitive social cues passed organically drives human actions and evolution by enabling adaptive cooperation, empathy, and innovation in diverse societies.

For example, which books to read and whom to trust. You often make decisions on gut feeling which is hard to transfer.

The product looks promising. Hoping for the best.


Is there any solution to these kind of issues other than having multiple backups and praying that not all of them will caught fire at the same time?


Backups are best thought of as a multi dimensional problem, as in, they can be connected in many dimensions. Destroy a backup, and all those in the same dimension are also destroyed. This means you must have to have redundancy in many dimensions. That all sounds a bit abstract, so ...

One dimension is two backups can be close in space (ie, physically close, as happened here). Ergo backups must be physically separated.

You've heard RAID can't be a backup? Well it sort of can, and the two drives can be physically separated in space. But they are connected in another dimension - time, as in they reflect the data at the same instant in time. So if you have a software failure that corrupts all copies, your backups are toast as you can't go back to a previous point in time to recover.

Another dimension is administrative control. Google Drive for example will backup your stuff, and separate it in space and time. But they are connected by who controls them. If you don't pay the bill or piss Google off, you've lost all your backups. I swear every week I see a headline saying someone lost their data this way.

Then backups can be all connected to you via one internet link, or connected to one electrical grid, or even one country that goes rogue. All of those are what I called dimensions, that you have to ensure your backups are held at a different location in each dimension.

Sorry, that didn't answer your question. The answer no. It's always possible all copies could be wiped out at the same time. You are always relying on luck, and perhaps prayer if you think that helps your luck.


Interesting way to explain this through multiple dimensions angle.


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