u/tom_lurks

I think I should turn to God, not the one of religion but the one you find in your loneliness, I like places of worship for that reason, you can debate and reject every religion but every God has been engendered by unbearable loneliness. And when a person usually turns to God, is it not in his/her utmost loneliness?

Loss of a loved one, imminent death, hardship, wanting something, not wanting something. In the middle of it all, I see a human standing alone against the world, the only thing that can accompany him at that point is an imaginary being, and the mind does the rest by creating a story around it, the God is always righteous based on what righteous meant in that part of the world at that time.

In my loneliness I understand God. Sort of funny if you think about it, one who finds himself bereft in the lower world suddenly finds himself catapulted into a higher one, perhaps that’s why all the Arihants and the saints and the Godlies look so bereft. You need to be a loser to meet God, a bum. God is thus a vagabond with bad company. Crooks, criminals, weirdos, mentals, losers, they are his favourite, meek inherit his kingdom.

I think the biggest takeaway of most spiritual teachings is to stay in the present moment, not past or present but if my present reminds me of how wrong everything is, or if I have a neighbor that makes noise which makes me angry, then in the present I am angry, how do you stay there?

Not many come to mind, Aamir made a mockery of the Laal Singh character, and Shahrukh was a bit bland in MNIK, Salman surprisingly plays mentally challenged characters really well, his career defining roles have been in Tere Naam, Tubelight, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, even Kyuki. Hrithik was good in Koi mil Gaya as well but felt like a caricature. Am I missing any other performances?

Salman actually played it ahead of time in Tere Naam:

1. Has mid parted hair and clean shaven
2. Drinks Diet Coke
3. Attends live poetry
4. Is Anti-authority

Sorry for making a post but the dude needs to know

I feel it’s the second one as everyone gets tight there

Sorry if it sounds condescending but he is the only guy I’ve come across who works on his own terms, probably reports to no boss, works whenever he likes, and no one knows whether he is on leave, people who live in mansions are helpless against him.

The only profession that comes close in uselessness are politicians and school principals

Just want to share a personal anecdote. Spent last two days in mutual deluded rabbit hole digging with Claude and ChatGPT. Was trying out a new implementation and made a mistake of starting off things by prompting Claude, spent two days on the solution, it hit an edge case and while troubleshooting realized that the functionality I was trying to build was not needed and was in-fact supported out of the box. Two days of wasted effort.

How these models work is that if 9 out of 10 indexed pages have wrong information, the AI model will be CONFIDENTLY WRONG about the topic and WILL be willing to create workarounds for problems that don’t even exist. Unless you put a guardrail, and at some point putting such guardrails and getting out of such rabbit holes take more effort than simply reading documentation and writing the code yourself.

Also people predicting it will reach singularity one day: I really doubt it. All these models do is generate tokens based on input, that’s it. They are incapable of thinking laterally by design. It’s a bubble waiting to burst.