The Vedic Concept of Human Personality by Karel Werner is a fascinating paper on many aspects of human life as discussed in the Vedas. I want to write about the concepts of human personality and immortality as thought of in ancient India. Human personality The human personality, as written about in the Vedas, is composedContinue reading “A peek into the vedas”
Monthly Archives: March 2022
What can make your relationship survive?
I am trying to understand the results of this paper, which uses machine learning to identify what factors determine whether a relationship between a woman and man survives. The study was done on Germany, but is expected to be applicable to the world at large. The following diagram is a good summary. Let us discussContinue reading “What can make your relationship survive?”
How to gaslight like a guru
True wisdom can only be found if you drop all pre-conceived notions of the world, look within, and engage in years of meditation and introspection. But sometimes it can also be found on Spotify. I recently heard a podcast between Joe Rogan and Sadhguru on The Joe Rogan Experience, and it was as uncomfortable andContinue reading “How to gaslight like a guru”
Zero sum games amongst relatives
It is simultaneously true that everyone in the world is a better person than your relatives, and everybody is somebody’s relative. I used to think that my family was uniquely bad. However, talking to others has convinced me that we are, in fact, much better off. I have a friend who wishes that her relativesContinue reading “Zero sum games amongst relatives”
Biases in machine learning
Today we will be discussing “Capturing failures of large language models via human cognitive biases” by Jones and Steinhardt. The rationality community is organized around trying to compensate for systematic biases in human thought. This movement was arguably started by “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Kahnemann and Tvarksy, and has reached its current state majorlyContinue reading “Biases in machine learning”
No one who controls you can respect you
I will write about a handful of isolated issues before I try and find a common pattern. Elon Musk has been universally vilified (at least on the left) as a tax-evading billionaire who has gotten rich stepping on the backs of working-class Americans. Elon, in perhaps an attempt to prove his naysayers wrong, paid theContinue reading “No one who controls you can respect you”
Fruits of procrastination 