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What is envisaged is a boundary necessarily baked into the agent sand box. Essentially a prescription for autonomous agentic frameworks with safety as priority. The fact that OpenAI et al demonstrates boundaries being broken means it was never implemented. We also have to understand a model without agency is no threat - that is why it is the agent that needs control on action and not the model.

Fully agree. What is envisaged here is a self evolving, autonomous agent verse where frequent human intervention may or may not be possible and where the the covenant (three laws) should act as the last guard rail against any harm intended by a self conscious agent or their descendants.

Too underwhelming. Apple under Tim Cook has been running out of steam. What prevents Apple from having 100s of GPU cores and higher memory bandwidth? They need to catch the AI wave before they perish under it.

In India, if you don’t know the user’s language precisely - just default to English which is the only business link language. Using an alien language like Hindi to non Hindi speakers will backfire badly.

India does not have ordnance, nor the capacity to make them quickly. Due to the Ukraine war, the same is in short supply in the open market. 2 weeks is stretching it. Please note that autonomous drones, guided bombs, ESM measures, and artillery power are crucial to sustained wars now. Both countries lack strategic bombers to deliver guided bombs effectively.

Neither India nor Pakistan can sustain a conventional war for more than 2 weeks, as they do not have sufficient armaments. Both sides also lack an effective defence against short-range missiles and drones. If the situation deteriorates, it can quickly lead to nuclear war as nonrational actors are present on both sides. I hope this situation does not escalate further. Please note that in a conventional war, economic costs of India would far outweigh those of Pakistan, whose economy is much smaller.

China heavily invested in Mexico. They are building up Mexico's manufacturing capacity to cover American demand. Either way, China wins.

EU does not have money to spare. Their economies are on the brink of collapse. They have committed harakiri by sabotaging their own energy security and industrial might. EU do not have they any clout on world stage and will decline. Without US - ukraine is sitting duck.

J D Bernal already addressed it through his magnum opus - Science in History.

That etymology is probably wrong. I posit - it comes from 'Kant/rikkuka' means to cut and cook. Kari vs KaRi.

Curry refers to vegetable originally and dishes made out of that. Curry Koottu means Masala. We have been using this word from time immemorial.

"Now to be clear, India has no such dish as a curry. No self-respecting Indian restaurant has a "curry" on their menu. They would have a Palak Paneer or a Malai Kofta or a Murgh Makhani - all of which we lump into "curry" - but no "curry"

- This is patently wrong. Curry is a South Indian word referring to vegetables originally (Malakkarry means vegetables). Come to Kerala - you have Moru Curry (Butter Milk Curry) , Erachi Curry (Beef Curry), Tharavu Curry (Duck Curry) etc. The author is a North Indian oblivious of curry history.

"കറി വെപ്പാനെന്തുള്ളത് കാട്ടിൽ, വിറകിന് മാത്രം മുട്ടില്ലിവിടെ"

[kari veppaanenthullathu kaattil, virakinu maathram muttillivide]

"What is there to make curry in the forest? Only firewood is available here" - Kiraatham Thullal by Kunchan Nambiar, Malayalam poet Circa 1750 AD.

Around 2002-03 - Motorola had RT Linux in EZx range of touch phones (https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_a760-392.php). They were also working on a Linux based smartphone platform which was fairly advanced before scrapping it in 2004. Been a part of those teams. Do not think it is easy to introduce another smartphone platform right now without strong differentiation given the network effects. Something on wearables might still work.

While that is true on rhetoric - on practice it is not. While 60% of bills went through parliamentary scrutiny prior to 2014 - the number today is just above 10%. Also Modi has the distinction of passing maximum bills without debate and bypassing the state senate altogether.

Sheer numbers and growth rate. China and India are huge markets and growing. Europe is a mature market which is stagflated. US has some more growth left.

What I don't understand about Europe is

1. They are facing a huge negative demographic dividend.

2. They are facing steep inflation, low energy and food security and lower economic growth.

3. High social security costs may not be sustainable in the long term.

4. Finance is crumbling and real economy is taking over. Monetary expansion had its run and is no longer the panacea.

How will they handle this and still emerge unscathed while competing with China and India and Indonesia and the likes.

COVID seems to have possessed Google - Services are down, Android Apps that used to take 24 hours for approval are now taking ages - and as usual no support forthcoming. Is Google unravelling?

Very misleading article. No - platforms do not mean app market places. App market places are platforms - but not the other way round. Author is just trying to improve his offline SEO. Not worth Hackernews stature.

Modi himself added his trader community to backward caste for reaping benefits while he was running for CM of Gujarat using BJP govt at centre. Modh-Ghanchis are a middle caste which is a beneficiary of caste system and is by no means an OBC.

Indian Hindu Nationalist government has now removed all garbs and is a full on fascism. They have scant regard for law or constitution. They have absolute control over all the 4 pillars of democracy and is effectively controlling popular opinion.

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India is well known for its casteism against untouchables which is nothing but pure racism. Even after 70 years of affirmative action - India still has 20% of its upper castes controlling 80% of Class A and Class B posts. Without affirmative action - it would have been 100%.

Try using natural language phrases in search like "reddit on best phone to buy" - most search engines are NLP enabled and can give more relevant results.

OYO in India stand for poor quality. Neither do they have lasting assets other than contracts with Franchisees. Not a model built to last.

That is true. Most companies have bench+overhead and billed resources may be 60% or less of total work force. Average billing works out to $10-15 for the low value high volume work these IT services firms do and that has not changed over the last 20 years or so. What has changed is a bloated middle/senior management which is a drag to the above business model. They did try to move up into consultancy and productised services - which did not really work.

Average productivity of an Indian IT services employee is as low as $15000 a year. With no uptick in productivity - the only way you can improve margins is to cut the flab - which is there in senior and middle layers. So senior and middle managers who have made themselves redundant without upskilling are now game. Average work life duration of an Indian IT employee might be less than 20 years currently.

In international market - Xiaomi decimated Fitbit already. High end is owned by Apple. May be a mixed bag for Google

India's right wing government under Modi is trying to impose Hindi on Indians who belong to different ethnicity and speak diverse set of languages. A sure shot recipe for balkanization of a young nation.

Google as an Ad company has interests diametrically opposite to people who want to browse without annoyance. Having a monopoly browser with an ad company should surely be deemed anti competitive. Google should be allowed to keep only one - Ads or Chrome.

UBI can work as long as it can spawn an internal market and micro entrepreneurs in that market. For accomplishing that UBI needs to be delivered as crypto that works within an internal market.