Paras Chopra

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It's interesting how sadness often feels profound but happiness seems trivial and fleeting. Perhaps this is the reason why sometimes we get stuck in negative loops; it just feels like something important is happening.

Most people have interesting thoughts, but they keep doubting themselves if they have anything worthy to say. So they never say anything and hence never get any feedback whether they are interesting or not. So speak away, my dear stranger.

As AI models increasingly one-shot anything, the limiting constraint becomes the lack of human clarity on what exactly do we want our AI-gods to do. "Garbage in, garbage out" will forever remain true. Even AGI won't solve it!

My haul from Oxford! It’s a heaven for book lovers; so many oddball books that are impossible to find in mainstream stores.

Just finished a summer course at Oxford on Plato’s Republic. What’s inspiration is that my class comprised of people of all ages (including one who is 80+) Everyone was there for their hunger for learning, and I hope it stays with all of us until the very end of our lives.