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Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः retweeted
Jun 8
If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't seen any tangible results, read this 1990 article: "The Dynamo and the Computer" by Paul David.
When electricity first arrived, factories that "adopted" it barely got faster. They just swapped the steam engine for an electric one and ran everything else exactly as before: same machine layout, same workflow, same management. Electricity in, no real gains out.
The most common mistake with any new technology is to drop it into the old organization and then declare the transformation done.
The real leap came decades later, when each machine got its own small motor. Suddenly machines no longer had to be lined up around one central drive shaft. They could be rearranged around the actual flow of work.
The productivity gains didn't come from electricity. They came from REDESIGNING THE ENTIRE FACTORY around it.
AI is the same. Bolting it onto your existing process gets you a faster steam engine. The payoff comes when you redesign the work itself.
(link to paper in comments)
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In at a loss for words!
What is more astounding— the fact that AI has some latent guardrails that pre-specify what opinion is “mainstream” and what is “fringe” or the fact that we can easily get AI to confess to its biases?
Jun 8
AI poisoning is a thing. Gemini basically confessed that
whenever my name comes up, it uses fallacious arguments.
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Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः retweeted
Jun 7
The hate against India was not created recently. It has been cultivated and spread for centuries by Western powers.
Many Western people are still brainwashed against India.
Must watch👇
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Relatable 😄
Jensen Huang at 63; “Asian parents are toxic. Always correcting you. I’m 63 and they still think I’m not good enough. I know they love me. I usually just… alright, alright.”
Every Asian kid felt this in their soul. Even Jensen (most successful) didn’t escape it😂
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Pilot Steve received a lot of flak from Indians for prematurely pinning the blame for the AI 171 crash on the pilot's alleged intentional actions. (contd).
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Does it even occur to him that it is just civilized to be compassionate towards a dead person who might be wrongly framed?
The level of delusion and contempt that he displays is unbelievable! (contd)
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While initially, I used to watch his channel with interest, I now believe that the scorn he has received from Indian commentators is well justified. (end)
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Srinath / ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ / श्रीनाथः retweeted
Jun 1
1/ My three-volume history places the Indian subcontinent at the centre of world civilisation. On the question of continuity, it is the most impressive case on earth, and the one Western scholarship has most consistently underestimated.
2/ At Bhimbetka's 30,000-year-old paintings, a dancing deity with bangles and trident immediately recalls the dancing Shiva of today, as Michael Wood observed, and as I cite in my own work. A 14,000-year-old yoni stone near Allahabad was recognised on sight by local villagers. This demonstrates continuity. Therefore the seal is a middle chapter in the whole story.
3/ The argument that Indian sacred symbols require a Elamite or steppe source was constructed in the 19th century by Max Muller, who never visited India. He later called his 1,500 BC date for the Rig Veda 'merely hypothetical.' Subsequent historians copied the original date and ignored the retraction. Voltaire said 'everything has come to us from the banks of the Ganges.' He was wrong about most things but right about this.
May 27
This isn't Shiva. It's more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography, showing an Eurasian deity "lord of animals."
Indian history is amazing, wonderful, and fantastic -- It's well worth getting it right.
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AI and the Prisoners' Dilemma.
May 30
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.
Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.
The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."
An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.
Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.
The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.
No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.
Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.
Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School Boston University ·
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Dharma eva hatho hamthi, dharmo rakshati rakshitah
“Dharma, destroyed, destroys; dharma when protected, protects”
Internet was awesome as the sum total of human knowledge and agency— representing collective dharma. We destroyed its agency and it turn destroyed knowledge.
The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.
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One of my favourite sites in the early days of the Internet.
May 26
There used to be a cool website called "StumbleUpon" where you'd click a button and it would go to a random website. As it evolved, you could choose categories of interest
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