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AI and "I"

It is believed that AI will eliminate millions of jobs in the coming decades.  Most of these jobs are likely to be information or desk jobs.  These are the ones that got created in the past couple of hundred years.  Before we continue, let us look at some of the theories of longevity of professions: As per Nassim Taleb defined Lindy Effect, for non-perishable things (ideas, technologies, professions), future life expectancy is proportional to current age. For example, if a practice has survived for 1,000 years, you should expect it to survive another 1,000 years. If it’s only been around for 70 years, its expected remaining lifespan is about 70 years.  AI will drastically reduce the remaining lifespan of many jobs.  Again as per Taleb, technology doesn't usually eliminate a human function; instead, it strips away the fragile, artificial parts of a job and forces the role back to its most ancient, Lindy core.  So, in many desk or information based roles, the...

Connected World, Universal Values and the Hatred for Local

A person wondered why there is so much hatred against Brahmins.  But the hatred is not just against Brahmins; sometimes it is against Hindus as a whole.  The mutual hatred between Muslims and the Western world is beyond the scope of this article.   Brahmins in particular and Hindus in general do not exhibit so much hatred against any other groups but are still hated if we look at social media posts.  Indian cinema has been portraying Brahmins as the bad guys - not the typical strong man villain, but the cunning one.   For a few centuries earlier, it was the Jews.  During that period, in popular western literature Jews were the cunning villains.  We may get the reason for that if we understand the motive of universalizing religions.  I see this as an influence of so-called universal religions like Christianity and the effect of a connected world where written communication became prominent.  Universalizing ideologies rely on standard...