@G11704G @karthik2k2 'hiring for less' is only true if your customer base is a Western demographic. If you're seeking products to anyone from africa or middle to far east, you're hiring at or above cost.
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@call_me_iniyan
Communicating Perspectives.......jus few of many! 🗿
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@karthik2k2 if you an entrepreneur, then there is more opportunity in india. you can hire from a pool of lots of people and you can hire people for less. it has its obvious upsides
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Such emotional tweets are unlikely to persuade anyone. If at all anyone returns, it will be because they were chased out and had nowhere to go to. Or they had made so much money that the downsides of being in India can be mitigated partially.
India needs a moonshot.
In ten years, we should build just one town, that's worth moving to. A place where things actually work, merit is rewarded, corruption is minimum and safety is high. With topclass education, healthcare and entertainment. Where children and adults are indoctrinated into following rules and where civic sense is second nature. It could be like a large gated community -one tenth the size of Dubai or Singapore.
Just one town/city.
1.4 billion people.
Ten years.
Real results are far more convincing than endless yapping about ancient glory. Sadly it would take a lot more than just money for real change.
Sridhar Vembu@svembu
Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu
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Well if you call Boston, Austin and NYC to be slums, yeah I was in slums.
Also I wasn't insulting any of your living conditions - I was merely wondering the remoteness of ur location in the US. Still unsure how that's construed as insult.
Besides you can jus simply open YouTube, check out some vlogs in these cities and see how many in the background are seen smooching and such. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that the openness hasn't led to any sort of cultural downfall. Hell, even the most famous pic from the end of WW2 times was a navy sailor kissing a random woman on the street - proving that it was simply seen as happy, positive expression.
Anyway, you still haven't addressed the core issue of Sanatanic degradation. You see, this has always been a problem with us - we constantly are in fear of individual liberties endangering societal welfare even when no explicit danger is presented. Lemme ask you this: Can you present a clear logical chain from this particular act of kissing publicly to cultural or moral degradation?
Also let's keep it civil. There's no need for nastiness.
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@call_me_iniyan I don't know in which slum you were living in the US. Indians usually tend to live in cheap localities and then think the happenings there must be uniform across the US.
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As usual we have comments wanting to normalise this. Let me tell you. This isn't a normal sighting in any country. While I was studying at a US university, it was common for couples to hold hands, give each other a hug and a quick peck. That doesn't make anyone uncomfortable. I remember only one incident in a bus stop when two gay guys were full on French kissing and an old lady next to me was shaking her head in disapproval. Later a university campus police officer came and asked them to behave properly in public. So this behavior is merely tolerated. And it does make other people uncomfortable around the world.
ಸನಾತನ (सनातन)@sanatan_kannada
Shocking & unacceptable! A couple caught indulging in highly indecent behavior in public in Manipal. This is not PDA, this is openly disrespecting Indian culture, public decency, and the people around. Manipal is an education hub students & families deserve better. Where are the authorities? Such acts shouldn’t be normalized! #Manipal #PublicDecency #Karnataka
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@craigzLiszt One language to interface with Indians - Hindi
One language to grow as a person - Sanskrit
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was thinking about learning an indian language, just in case
hindi feels obvious
but i’m told it’s not the one
what should i actually learn, just in case?
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What if the Village didn't exist in the home country in the first place.
I see most people who migrate to first world countries come from metropolitan cities when the so called "social safety net" practically never existed.
While I completely agree with the Hedonic treadmill argument from the neurological standpoint, I think the grandstanding comes from "The financial incentives are no more giving me the high. I need to feel superior to some people in order to deal with my resource anxiety" is more at play, in this context.
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I’ve got nothing against anyone here, and many of my close friends live outside India. Just wanted to share something I came across a few yrs ago.
There is a neurological phenomenon rarely discussed in the context of NRIs called "The Hedonic Treadmill of Relocation."
In the 1st yr, everything is a novelty (high dopamine). By yr 3, the brain adapts to the clean air & the parks & they become invisible. To keep the Relocation High alive, the individual must vocally contrast their current state with a negative memory of the past.
Studies on immigrant mental health show that those who preach the loudest are often those struggling the most with Social Capital Erosion. They have better AQI, but they have lost the Village"(the deep-rooted social safety net of India).
The Gyaan is a defensive wall built to hide the loneliness of a 5:00 PM sunset in a silent suburb.
Source: Migration and aspirations – are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill? Czaika & Vothknecht 2014
VatsRohit@KesariDhwaj
To my Indian brothers and sisters who have found their Shangri La abroad - I get it that you're enjoying your relocation to a foreign country. More power to you. May god bless you with success and happiness. BUT For the love of God, please stop the 24x7 preaching about how your chosen country/destination is better than India. The ad infinitum reference to AQI, work-life balance, parks, sports etc. gets on the nerves. And it seems that you're trying to justify your decision to yourself by constantly making the comparison so that you can satisfy yourself that you got a great deal. Reality is that even if these aspects weren't there but if the pay was equally good or even better, you'd still chose to relocate. So, please enjoy yourself by all means, share reels abut your chosen place, share knowledge with others about how to navigate themselves if they go abroad but please, don't give gyaan.
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Pregnancy has never the fundamental factor in parenthood's legitimacy. It was Gestation - same but different - a first principles perspective difference.
More fundamentally, it is the Gestational Investment.
If the post human works can offer something of equivalence to this, I believe that'd be a meaningful starting step towards the resolving the legitimacy problem.
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Why should pregnancy be the only gateway to parenthood at all?
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A Post-Human mindset is hard work…
Everything we know needs a new kind of meaning,
… an evolved new meaning.
We won’t remain the old “humans” as we know anymore.
I feel sad, nostalgic, and excited all at once.
💔❤️🔥
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If I was a billionaire I would hire an ARMY of midgets to run my estate
CAMORADAR@camoradar
🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew's MIDGET FETISH revealed after cops raided his property & discovered hidden high-end roulette streaming studio staffed ONLY by midgets.
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@thekaipullai Two fundamental reasons
"Scarcity mindset" - makes them want more value per $
"Low trust society" - incentives are not aligned with creating trust and cohesion
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I don't know why it is in our innate nature to cut corners, cheap out or outright cheat, when you don't have to and you know you will get caught
Everywhere, everyone is always trying to cut corners and do some jugaad as if it is some ultimate achievement. People for no reason are so proud of this useless ability.
We don't think twice before compromising quality, functionality and respect to achieve some perverse aim of cutting cost or cheapening things.
Why is this quality so ingrained in our psyche??
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@CoinWallace @PromptLLM @grok, what do you find as the limitations in this prompt and how would you improve it for a better, more accurate prediction?
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@PromptLLM I feel bad for you, your approach to AI is 1 year behind
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Ask me 10 questions of what you see fit, to give you the clearest picture of where my life is heading.
Ask the questions one by one to avoid any bias in my answers.
After the 10 questions reveal where you think I will be in 5 years time, do not sugar coat and be brutally honest in your assessment
Prompter@PromptLLM
This prompt will give you the reality check you need
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It MOST DEFINITELY dulls the minds of the masses.
Due to the law of conservation of energy we revert to the easiest (least energy consuming) pathway to find an answer and this law is most explicitly observed for neural systems - the entire theory of evolution is predicated on this law (imo)!
We can already see that happening in the previous tech wave - The Social Media wave - how people's "truth" referred to most widely held opinion. The number of critical thinkers plummeted from the pre-SM times. As much as me being a tech and evolutionary accelerationist, I'm afraid AI is gonna make a whole lot of humanity dumber.
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Do you think relying on AI sharpens your mind, or quietly dulls it?
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@Kev_Capital_TA Could it be that the game has changed and is no longer the same regime (ergo, different rules)?
It feels that way since the start of this year with Trump making some off-beat strokes.
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One example but a perfect one of how dislocated the Crypto market currently is from the rest of the broader markets is the Russell 2000 chart with Ethereum overlaid. Never in history have we seen this amount of time in diverging correlation between the two as almost 90% of the time they have followed each other lock step with some small lag effect from time to time. We especially have never seen it when the Russell breaks out into price discovery.
Either there is an increased lag effect occurring here or something is still broken with the crypto market and has not been recovered yet from the October 10th debacle. The Russell is the number one performing indice this year, mid and low caps are rallying left and right, and the risk appetite is very high across all markets. Not to mention the macro environment is the best it has been in over 5 years and continues to improve via data and projections. Crypto is the only market simply not participating and in fact doing the opposite as liquidity is still flowing out of the market.
#Crypto
#ETH
#BTC
#Altcoins
Kevin@Kev_Capital_TA
youtu.be/o222Q0YSARQ - In this video I talk about in detail the correlation between #ETH and the Russell 2000 and what it could mean for future price action. Enjoy! #Crypto #Altcoins
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Quick question - what's so wrong about using AI to write?
- Amazing research tool
- Crazy good pattern recognition and insight generation
- Excellent Grammar
As long as the workflow is your perspective > 'your' thought > 'your' research prompt > AI does the research > 'you' verify > 'your' original draft > 'AI + You' refining the write-up, I don't see anything wrong in using AI to write.
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Some people have an unhealthy relationship with my posts. They even send abuse messages for no reason.
One obsession is trying to prove me wrong. Another is trying to show what I am saying is trivial. And then some want to prove I use AI to write.
I just want to say - Yes, I am wrong and what I say is also trivial. You should never take me seriously or waste your time on me at all.
But I don't use AI to write.
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The amount of 'Tax' in a country is directly proportional to the inability of the country's heads to achieve a positive balance sheet.
- unresearched random thought
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Don't you think this is driving your daughter to view relationships as transactional?
Shouldn't the lesson be that "Irrespective of your 'friends' reciprocation you continue being helpful coz 'You are a Helpful person by nature' ?" and "Now that you know that you aren't valued as much as the value you bring, you should ideally be expanding your circle to include more people"?
I don't have kids and I know I'm talking from a fake foundation. But my parents told these to me when I was a kid and I'm still trying to be as helpful as I can wherever possible.
Im just curious if this would work.
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TONIGHT'S CONVO WITH MY CHILD.
My daughter: "I need you to take me to school tomorrow, mom."
Me: "Why?"
(Her car is in the shop for an accident. Starting today..not her fault..dog jumped in front of her.)
Her: "Duh. My car is in the shop."
Me: "derp." You have a driver's license. Take my Expedition..
Her: "Mom, I am not driving your mom car to school. Only work. I can't park it. It's too big. Dad's truck is too long."
Me: "I can take you, but I want to know where all your friends are that you were giving rides to for the last two years and feeding them breakfast are?"
Her: " I was told now that our house it out of the way. It's an inconvenience to pick me up. But I could pick them up because it was on the way to school."
(We are a few minutes out of town, but that's not the point. Cady was driving them everywhere.)
Me: "Ok. We ride at dawn. FIND NEW FRIENDS. I DON'T LIKE USERS."
You're only good as your next deed.
Moral of the story: I hate users.
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@GalacticArcanum @historydefined One action can have both personal AND communal benefits, right?
Just because the personal benefit (which was earnestly acquired) is disproportionately large, it doesn't have to discount the impact of public benefit. 🤷♂️
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@call_me_iniyan @historydefined You don't spend $30 million to spread just a few pages of the manuscript. The remainder is still private. His other actions reinforce that.
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Bill Gates purchased Leonardo da Vinci's Codex for $30,802,500. Three years later, he had its pages scanned into digital image files, some of which were later distributed as screensavers and wallpaper files on a CD-ROM as part of Microsoft Plus! for Windows, so everyone could enjoy them.
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I think this reddit post is resting on a fundamental premise which refutes your claim - AI is gonna (has potential to) eliminate the possibility of "creating anymore of those bullshit jobs" as it becomes extremely hard to justify their economic viability. The COVID period also exposed how fragile is the current economic system leading to questions like "are we even measuring the right things?".
The prior "automate everything" waves had one thing in common - their limit is the human's (weilder) limit. However, this is exactly where the curve gets deviant - AI's limit is only the amount of compute. Once we figure out a constant sustainable supply it becomes infinitely harder to contain AI, unless it is gonna be absolutely benevolent and "choose" to be subservient to its creators.
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From the perspective of a caveman or even farmer from few hundred years back - most of our jobs (us city dwellers) are like UBI (universal basic income).
You cannot convince a 15th century person that what a typical MBA grad does is a legit profession, let along one of the highest paid ones.
In light of what is happening with AI - I have had an lightbulb moment - that Graeber’s “bullshit jobs” are actually a form of UBI. We need bullshit jobs to sustain the economy and the society.
Just growing food, packaging it and feeding the 8B people of earth needs just 1-2% of the population to do it. What will the rest 98% do?
Initial days of COVID lockdown showed us how the economy needs to constantly “move”. It collapses if stationery. If for even few weeks, people stop spending money, entire economy stalls, GDP free falls, everyone’s income becomes zero because everyone’s income after all comes from someone else spending money.
So when people say that “if AGI automated everything then we need UBI” I guess they are not realising that before AI there has been electricity, computers, Internet, industrial manufacturing and lots of other paradigm shifts that have already done a wave of “automate everything”, and the human race just went ahead and invented yet another hundred million bullshit jobs to keep the displaced population busy with something to keep the economy moving. And we will do exactly the same after AGI as well.
David Shapiro (L/0)@DaveShapi
They're catching on.
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@GalacticArcanum @historydefined Or....... getting Leo his due credit by making more people access and appreciate his craft.
How else would you honor someone who's passed away if not through..... Legacy?
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@historydefined Just another Medici trying to steal Leo work
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