April 27, 2024

The Orville and an interesting conversation with AI about emergence

Recently, I had a very interesting conversation with the latest version of AI (OpenAI’s GPT-4) about my favorite television series “The Orville”. The conversation went into deep science fiction and philosophical questions like existence of human beings and the concept of emergence. Emergence of something completely new out of very small components or elements.

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June 22, 2022

Greed

Greed is one of the fundamental characteristics of humans throughout known human history. Let’s discuss greed in this post.

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May 27, 2022

Music

Music and Engineering are the closest forms of Magic I can think of. Music has a tremendous amount of power on our psychology and behavior. Let’s discuss Music in this post.

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March 01, 2022

Adaptability

Adaptability is becoming super crucial to stay relevant in this world, especially after the COVID-19 era. We all need to constantly learn new things and be comfortable with the new reality.

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January 30, 2022

Money

Money - perhaps the most important thing in today’s capitalistic world. You won’t have the device on which you’re reading this blog if you would not have the money to buy it.

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January 23, 2022

Opportunity Cost

Opportunity cost is a hidden cost we all face when we are taking some serious decisions. Opportunity cost includes what you are giving up while you’re choosing some other option. Let’s explore opportunity cost in this post.

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January 22, 2022

Stock Market

Stock Market - A platform/market to exchange stocks/shares of publicly listed companies. But it’s much more than that, at least for me. Let’s discuss the stock market in this post.

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December 24, 2021

Unfairness: it's not fair!

Sometimes a thought arises, the world which we live in is not fair. There are many things outside our control, but still we measure everyone with the same scale. Let’s explore “unfairness” in this post.

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November 21, 2021

Inflation

Inflation is a hot topic nowadays. Layman definition of inflation can be, “too much money chasing too few goods”. When almost everyone has more money than before, then money slightly loses its value and prices of goods go up. That’s inflation.

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October 09, 2021

Crypto is Inevitable

Cryptocurrency is a new medium of financial exchange backed by technologies like decentralized blockchain ledger, cryptography and hashing. Some people think crypto is temporary and will vanish in future as it does not have any intrinsic value and some people(like me) believe crypto is inevitable. Let’s discuss crypto’s future in this post.

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October 02, 2021

Learning to learn

There are too many things to learn out there, and our attention span is limited. So, we can not master every skill, but what we can do is to learn how to learn anything quickly. Let’s explore the skill of “learning to learn” in this post.

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October 01, 2021

Benefit of the Doubt

Giving benefit of doubt has almost always helped me throughout my life. Sometimes we can’t see all the possibilities and end up assuming whatever seems obvious to us, which can be far from the truth.

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September 04, 2021

Capitalism

Our society runs on capitalism. Private or corporate ownerships strive to maximize profits by serving customers better than their competitors. They do this by constant innovation and competing against others to make their products/services better & better in a free and open market.

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August 15, 2021

Freedom

Freedom is perhaps one of the most important yet underrated things in the world. On this day of independence, let’s explore freedom in this post.

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August 05, 2021

Challenge Assumptions

Fundamental premise of science is to challenge assumptions. When we challenge the existing hypothesis or the existing thing which we hold to be true, we’re engaging in science.

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July 08, 2021

Reel Life

Most of the time, whatever we see on social media, is just one side of the coin. Almost everyone will only share their positive or joyful moments of life. It seems that’s how our brains are wired. Almost no one is going to share their ongoing family troubles or relationship tensions to others. Let’s explore this “reel life” in this post.

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June 19, 2021

The Gray Zone

The goal of this post is to realize the fact that almost everything in life is not either good or bad. Seeing the world binary i.e. either good or bad, does not show the entire perspective.

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June 12, 2021

Meaning of Life

Life is finite, as everyone knows. And in this finite amount of time we have got in this world, what should we work on? With whom we should spend our precious time? Answers to these are mostly subjective, there is no right or wrong answer, but let’s try to think about it.

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May 23, 2021

Are we living in a Simulation?

Are we living in a Simulation? Is there someone who has programmed the rules which govern our universe? What is we are not creators but creations? Let’s explore idea of “living in a simulation” in this post.

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April 16, 2021

Freedom vs. Equality

Freedom and Equality are like two side of a coin, both of them can’t be together. If we try to increase freedom of people in a society, equality will suffer, and if we support equality of all the people in a society, freedom will suffer.

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April 15, 2021

The Next Big Technological Wave

In 2021, almost all massively big and profitable businesses/companies in the world are internet companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Facebook.

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