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Quantum Path to the Multiverse
I am more or less convinced that you and I live in a multiverse. Which means that you live alongside copies of yourself living in parallel realities. Some of them very much identical to you, differing only in trivial details, but some starkly different from you for having made different choices. There are worlds, then,… Continue reading
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How AI can Transform Education
There are two hundred million students in India today. While much of the developed world is deeply worried about their aging population, we can be calm on account of being a young country. Unfortunately, for the majority of kids, their true potential will be chipped away, slowly and systematically, by an education that fundamentally does… Continue reading
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AI Will Never Be Conscious
One day in the not-so-distant future, we’ll be sharing our world with machines that can think like us. Once they arrive, they’ll be infused with all of our tools, eventually becoming omnipresent within our digital landscape. There’s little choice here, the economic incentives will effectively mandate that. And they will be equal participants in our… Continue reading
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How to Make Spectacular Chicken Cutlets
I don’t know about you, but I love me some great cutlets. Unfortunately, I live in North Bangalore, and the ones we get here simply don’t even come close to the ones from home (Kerala). I had to take matters into my own hands and create the perfect cutlets myself. Here’s the recipe. Step 1:… Continue reading
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Every philosophy question seeks to understand a feature of reality – how does the brain produce consciousness? where does knowledge come from? are moral truths objective? – these are all questions that aim to light up a portion of the map of our reality. But only one question seeks an explanation for existence as a… Continue reading
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Defining Gender is a Moral Act
I want to do two things here: (1) explain what gender is and (2) explain why the question of whether trans women are real women is a moral question instead of a descriptive one. Let’s start by noticing that in the animal kingdom, each species has two kinds of bodies: males and females. They have… Continue reading
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Dubai Musings #1 – Impressions
We’ve lived in India our whole lives. Though you see other parts of the world on screens, it never registers as a tangibly real place. You can’t quite feel them. Our last international trip (to Switzerland) was a year ago and the memories had started fading. Only some shallow impressions remain. Being in Dubai reminded… Continue reading
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Theory of Information
Today I want to talk about Information. It might not seem like an interesting topic, but I assure you it’s worth your attention. I’m trying to pin down exactly what it is. And it’s a little more complicated than you might think. We first notice that information appears in many forms. If we look at… Continue reading
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My Blogging Principles
Inspired by Julia Evan’s post “Blogging principles I use” I also started thinking about how I want to write. So here’s the list of principles that I aspire to live up to (but which I don’t). Interesting If it’s boring or obvious, it doesn’t deserve to be a blog post. You’re not writing documentation, and… Continue reading
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What Are You?
I want you to consider what you are for a moment. Forget everything you know about the world, about human beings, brains, and the universe. Forget what you’ve been taught and what you’ve come to accept. Forget all of that and think from first principles, and answer this question – what kind of a thing… Continue reading
Vide Rationale 