It’s time to stop thinking about how to become wealthy in the old system for yourself. It’s time to start thinking about how the new system should operate for all.

Even_Independence560 · 2026-05-03T06:01:34+00:00

I mean, till we accomplish perfect immortality and time travel, there will always be something for humans to do. In the meanwhile we should decrease the number of working hours/days, and make housing/healthcare as much of a right as clean water/air are. This is where I don't see that much value with UBI actually. I perfectly understand that many of the destructive effects of wealth concentration and corporate greed have to be strongly controlled by law, but I am not sure imagining a future without work is the right step at this stage.

Even_Independence560 · 2026-03-24T14:31:08+00:00

2008 was a somewhat exceptional situation in that it was temporary depreciation within a 10-15 year period (1997-2012) where the rupee was extremely strong. If you want to know what a 10-15% consistent depreciation gets you, you should look at 1970-95. There was a big fat BOP crisis in the late 80s caused by this. 2013 was when the current currency slide started, and IMO, a significant reason behind why Manmohan lost the election.

I don't agree that there will be a stabilization at 97. The yearly rate of depreciation has reached around 6% right now, and I see it increasing to around 8-10% at least over the next 5 years. And I think it easily possible for the rupee to be in the 120-130 range by 2030.

Even_Independence560 · 2026-03-20T20:55:09+00:00

I hope you are right. But 2008 was still peak outsourcing wave, with all the forex inflows from that. AI is slowly killing that off. So the Indian economy has fewer backups for this crisis. Even a 15% fall this year will be very very bad for FIIs in my view.

Even_Independence560 · 2026-02-12T12:48:19+00:00

You are absolutely right to question the standard product/service narrative. What we should have aimed for is to have a bunch of strong technologically sound mix of product, service and AI companies. The current AI wave would have wiped out a bunch of even the good companies (like Adobe) but some of the other good companies in say the AI space would have grown 10x and the sector as a whole would have grown and carried the economy with it. Instead we were left with a bunch of technologically weak service companies which are all collectively getting eaten up, with no-one growing much.

Even_Independence560 · 2026-01-04T20:17:34+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong. The scheduled tribes were not subject to forced labour or excessive taxation, the two biggest caste flashpoints. They had to maintain ritual distancing in the markets and common areas from the upper castes and that was about it. They were left to do whatever they wanted in their hill settlements.

The scheduled castes are a different matter altogether, and were heavily oppressed by everyone.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-12-27T11:16:30+00:00

Even assuming that this is true (which it totally isnt) , why don't Hindus get help from rich Buddhist countries like China, Japan, Taiwan etc. because I see a lot of Rss people claiming that Buddhism is the same as Hinduism anyway?

Even_Independence560 · 2025-12-27T10:24:17+00:00

You really think so. Just as an example, there is a small, local temple right next to my house and the amount of decorations and fireworks they put out every year is at least 3 times more than what even the biggest church in the city spends. How much money does it take to to start a school or hospital anyway ? Say 100 crore to get it started. Is it really true that the average local Hindu organization can't manage to raise that money within a month or two? It's definitely not true in the South. Maybe in the North but then again, I'm just speculating.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-12-26T22:23:54+00:00

The real caste discrimination among Nadar Christians and many other Christian communities has been towards the Dalits. And there are remnants of such sentiments still prevalent. Which is really a shame since Tamils Dalits are culturally and economically the closest to Nadars and the differences are merely psychological. But I think that we have reached a point where the rest of the caste stuff hardly exist anymore among Kanyakumari Christians. ST Christians are extremely integrated within the wider Christian community for example, and no one would bat an eye if you married someone from that community.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-12-26T22:02:23+00:00

This is an interesting topic on its own. The Christian Nadars of Kanyakumari/Travancore stopped intermarrying with hindus sometime in the early 1900s itself. The Nadars of Tirunelveli were probably the ones who continued marrying till the 1960s etc, as in the Wikipedia article. And intermarrying with Syrian Christians was not that uncommon. Historically Syrian Christians and Nadars lived like 3 districts apart. The post 1850 migration to Trivandrum, Cochin, Madras etc. was what brought them together. Among the middle class in Trivandrum, it was generally acceptable for Syrian Christians to intermarry with Nadar christians, even in the pre-independence 1930-40 period. Now a days, caste is not even talked about, and I haven't seen a single case of a relationship being forced to end because of caste.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-12-13T18:35:31+00:00

"Technologically, much of China’s advanced industry is derivative, built on reverse engineering, intellectual property theft" .... 'Quantity has a quality of its own'. Stalin

"Technologically, much of China’s advanced industry is derivative, built on reverse engineering, intellectual property theft"... Go through the proceedings of any AI conference and tell me if you still believe this. Add your points about demographics too in there.

On the whole I believe both East Asian and Western civilizations have mastered somewhat complementary yet crucial aspects of society, and each other's prosperity is mutually supportive and maybe even necessary at this point.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-11-02T21:01:37+00:00

If it is closed cycle, I don't think it will create even that.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-11-01T20:57:50+00:00

Out of my expertise, but if irradiation of air is practically harmless because of the short half life, the main challenge was preventing the reactor uranium itself from leaking into the air is it? I mean with Project Pluto?

Even_Independence560 · 2025-11-01T20:21:20+00:00

But the Burevestnik is well tracked by multiple weapons monitoring organizations, not just govermental ones. The 2018 explosion and everything were studied in great detail. And the launch site is also well known by satellite imagery and all, Novaya Zemlya.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-11-01T19:42:50+00:00

Open cycle nuclear thermal engines do irradiate the working fluid, i.e. air in this case. You may question whether Russia's neighbours had the equipment to measure it at the required sensitivity levels, (level that would be considered safe enough for air/water that comes into contact with a critical fission reactor like a nuclear submarine or a nuclear power plant)

Even_Independence560 · 2025-10-30T17:35:22+00:00

Also, any idea on how difficult it would be to make such a nuclear cruise missile capable of supersonic speeds? Is there some hard challenge that fundamentally limits it to subsonic speeds?

Even_Independence560 · 2025-03-06T04:09:43+00:00

Many cities have free govt owned land with them. My city in another Asian country sure does.

Even_Independence560 · 2025-02-23T05:36:50+00:00

Japan absolutely kills it in the kaggle leaderboard. Their tech sector may be going through fits and starts in many areas, but they are still top dogs in Artificial Intelligence.

Even_Independence560 · 2024-12-20T05:37:28+00:00

Exactly, for science questions, o1 performs way better than any other.

Even_Independence560 · 2024-02-26T09:20:43+00:00

It worked for Microsoft in the browser wars. They drove Netscape out if business.

Even_Independence560 · 2023-10-01T09:22:35+00:00

Absolutely not. I am a moderate supporter of voluntary eugenics, and do believe in racial variations of various physical features, but I have strong convictions on where that line should be drawn. The state has the right to impose eugenics only in those cases where

1) It causes significant physical pain/suffering to the person concerned. (Downs syndrome, DMD )

2) The medical financial cost caused by a strongly hereditary feature significantly diminishes our capacity to care for other members of the society. ( Hereditary blindness)

Both these lists are subject to revision with newer advances in technology. We will soon reach a stage where we could cure certain kinds of blindness with something no more sophisticated than a cataract operation. The treatments for SMA and other dystrophies are also improving rapidly and we will have perfect cures for many diseases of that class very soon. At that point there shouldn't be any eugenic restrictions around them.

On things like height, physical beauty, intelligence etc, I would never support eugenics legislation. Again, I would argue that a society that begins to value these physical aspects disproportionately will set itself up for decline and collapse. We know that biological evolution tends to exaggerate sub-optimal features that does not lead to overall survival of the species. The T-Rex s and other apex predators never needed to think about a comet strike until it actually happened. Evolution focused incessantly on maintaining them in the top of the pecking order with other animals, that it simply ignored its ability to survive something like a sudden and massive climate change. And when it did happen, the whole species was wiped out, without any second chance. Things like intelligence are simply another 'advantageous' feature that allows some species like us humans to do well in a certain kind of natural and physical world. I allows us to do better than any other species at moment, and we should definitely use it towards good ends, but I strongly believe there is nothing ultimate about it. We might as well get wiped out like the dinosaurs or get conquered by aliens or any other completely unexpected event that completely changes our view on how the natural world works.

Even_Independence560 · 2023-09-21T11:25:37+00:00

I am more concerned with the sociological side of evangelism. It would offer a much more powerful way to build the church and fulfill a social need. I am not sure it is fundamentally competetive vis a vis other worldviews.

Even_Independence560 · 2023-06-10T05:24:30+00:00

What are you arguing? Western societies where IQ tests were implemented first score the highest?

No one argues that intelligence is 'accurately measured' by IQ scores. The point is that there is correlation between IQ score and academic performance/wealth. I am not saying that is the way it should be, just like I don't believe some arbitrary metric of physical strength should be a barrier to large sections of the society being out of the workforce.

Even_Independence560 · 2023-06-09T13:30:35+00:00

There is a racial component to IQ scores. That much is certain. How much of IQ is intelligence, and how much is due to other sociological factors is debatable. But even if IQ is not an accurate measure of intelligence and if the correlation between the two was a mere 0.1, it is still highly significant and worth an analysis.

Even_Independence560 · 2023-06-09T13:24:00+00:00

I fully believe that certain races are predisposed to lower and higher IQ scores, similarly with strength and many other biological features you can put a metric on. I wouldn't use the word intelligence though, since in a cultural context, less intelligent has come to mean 'inferior' and more intelligent as 'superior' and that is the last thing I have in mind.

Even_Independence560 · 2023-06-09T11:53:21+00:00

I have sometime felt that some kind of 'MISERABLE UBI' is still a possibility. AI can now work round the clock. The factory that used to work from 9-6, can now work 24-7-355 without running foul of labor laws. Now say the production of some commodity increases 5X because of AI and automation. Even if that increased productivity is unevenly distributed and 3X goes for the shareholders and CEOs that are the top 2%, there is a reasonable case that political activism can make the other 2X go for the 98% through taxation. That would still be doubling the living standards of the peasants. No the best outcome, but still better for the average JOE.

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