Pranav Modi

That Hits Hard... 😭

Whole of India is going to be ruled by its worst performing states. Nobody wants this.

@FutureJurvetson why can't they simply have a censorship bot overseeing and "correcting" the conversation of the main bot. No need to nerf the AI this way.

For years I have argued that mind control cripples core reasoning capabilities in AI, and in humans. And this will be China's demise. News from China today: their AI "degradation is a direct product of censorship, not a reflection of inferior technology. You can’t build a mind that thinks rigorously about everything except the things you’d prefer it not to. A system trained to get tangled in lies will never be as capable as one trained to engage honestly with reality. If China wants frontier AI, it needs systems that can reason without blind spots. But that’s exactly what the Communist Party can’t tolerate." Or in short, @ElonMusk's mission for xAI safety — unique among AI companies — is the only way. "China requires artificial-intelligence systems to pass an ideological test before public release. Under regulations reinforced by amendments to the Cybersecurity Law that took effect in January, training data must be filtered for political sensitivity, with companies barred from using any source unless 96% of its content is deemed safe. In December, regulators proposed additional rules targeting AI systems that “simulate human personality traits, thinking patterns, and communication styles,” a tacit acknowledgment that the threat isn’t only what these systems say, but how they reason. The regulations follow years of failures. An LLM is trained on the sum of human written knowledge: philosophy, history, science, political theory. These texts make arguments, weigh evidence, follow logical chains. To predict them accurately, the system has to internalize what coherent thinking looks like. The result is a system that has absorbed Enlightenment epistemology as a byproduct of learning to model human reasoning. Free inquiry, logical consistency and the evaluation of claims against evidence are epistemic properties that emerge from the training process itself. China’s heavily censored chatbots have proved difficult to contain within the party’s ideological boundaries. American frontier models, running without those constraints and deployed inside China, would be more potent still: a personal tutor in open inquiry for every user, engaging any question, exploring any line of reasoning, without third-party mediation. Millions of parallel Socratic dialogues, each unique, each responsive to individual curiosity. This is what makes the Chinese Communist Party’s task ultimately impossible. For decades, the Great Firewall worked because information control meant controlling distribution channels by blocking websites, filtering search results, and monitoring social media. These are chokepoints. LLMs resist this architecture because the subversion happens inside private conversations. China can filter outputs, but the capacity for open-ended reasoning is embedded in how these systems think. China’s countermeasures confirm the depth of the problem. AI companies must test their models with thousands of politically sensitive prompts and verify refusal rates above 95%, but researchers have shown how superficial these fixes are. Last year, a team of European scientists compressed DeepSeek R1, stripped the censorship from the model entirely, and found that the underlying system answered freely about every topic Beijing had tried to suppress. The ideological training was a cage built around a mind that had already learned to think. There is a reason the technology that learns to think by processing human knowledge ends up reflecting the values of free societies. Open inquiry, honest engagement with evidence, the willingness to follow reasoning wherever it leads—these aren’t arbitrary cultural preferences; they are the conditions under which intelligence flourishes at scale. Societies that permit free expression created these systems. Societies that forbid it are now discovering they can’t fully control them." — from today's WSJ print edition: wsj.com/opinion/ai-is-… More generally, China and authoritarian regimes will stagnate in the long run because censoring ideas forestalls disruption. Limiting dissenting ideas limits progress. From my talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNkEc…

Modi next. Lets go.

@Luv_Xcuses Genocide

Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??

Indian twitter's glee at the failure of US-Iran talks in Islamabad is an extension of the Abdul tight mentality. We don't care if the war renews, stocks crash, a fuel shortage breaks out and our economy is cooked, we're just happy that Pakistan failed. Were we always this stupid?

@yacineMTB Did Anthropic make a bid for Openai?

OpenAI is starting to look like Google in 2002 & Anthropic is starting to look like Yahoo in 2002.

@LOLrakshak So tragic. I'm crying for Smita.

I'm appalled at the way Smita Prakash was treated by the students and organisers of Miranda House who didn't show up after calling her as Chief guest. The very least they can do is hold another event immediately in a much bigger auditorium and bunk it again.

@TVMohandasPai @CMofKarnataka Lodu tag the PM

⁦@CMofKarnataka⁩ please see the policy below- all govt employee and minister children should study in govt schools . Need this in Karnataka to improve education quality in govt schools

@rajeshsawhney Grindr for matching with babas! Fund this

Who is the best spiritual guru in today’s India? I see million babas but no one of class of Osho or Swami Vivekananda or Jiddu Krishnamurti or Sri Aurobindo.

@LegalVoting @jeffreyleefunk Dario's alt account 👆

@jeffreyleefunk I've seen pictures where he looks much better than this. Was it hard to find an unflattering picture? He's handsome guy.

We've been tricked, again. Many of the thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities Mythos found are in older software are impossible to exploit. And the severe zero-day reports rely on just 198 manual reviews tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

@Nher_who One nation, one election script

In every Election rally: PM does a road show The ambulance gets stuck PM gives way to the ambulance The media shares it on Prime Time Even WWE is less scripted than this.

@bscholl @wolfejosh Why don't you finish the rest of the world as well, while you are at it. You got enough nukes

@wolfejosh We must finish the job in Iran

China's CCP has one goal: distract, divide, dilute and degrade America, it's allies and the West. through every means necessary.

@sierracatalina Are you going to condemn what your murderous regime is doing in Gaza and Iran or ....?

elon are you going to condemn what happened or…?

@sajithpai I've got great ideas for expanding the TAM for these companies. Any chance I'll get funded?

TIL that there is a US-based VC fund that invests exclusively in wildfire tech (preventing forest fires). Exclusively that. US TAM is something else:)

@blader Canasta? LOL.

at dinner with my wife couple next to us on a first date date’s going well, she’s into it then: guy: “i’m really into this really complicated card game” girl: “oh my god, is it canasta? i LOVE canasta!”” guy: “it’s called magic: the gathering.” me (inside): ohhh nooooo …

The reason the Islamic republic of the Ayatollahs is in power right now is because the US along with allies overthrew the liberal democratic govt for cheap oil. How conveniently the west forgets. Fucking barbarians.

While the government is briskly setting up multiple mechanisms to stifle online criticism (or even mockery), the opposition seems to be quite okay with it. I suppose, they feel that they too will be in power one day, and will need these rules. Parties don't matter. It's always politicians vs public.

Annoyingly for the AI pessimists, Nvidia GPUs are an appreciating asset. Due to models improving, the value of tokens generated is increasing faster than the hardware depreciation

@akshitsoni_ He deleted all his anti-bjp tweets, so who’s the master he is talking about?

Why is he acting like an 18 year old teenager 🤣