We paid a low price once to purchase safety and stability. But what we bought is past its expiry date now. This is about religion.

On why people claim they have written what they got an AI chatbot to write, why that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of art and work, and why art is made by the body and not the mind.

In case anyone doesn't know, Aagaami means that which is to come. So it may mean the future, or something new and mysterious, or a visitor, or an alien from another world. This is the first episode of a new podcast I am starting right here on Patreon. The official tagline is Aagaami is a show about surviving the 21st century.

This, the very first episode, is about generative AI, why it is like gasoline on a democracy-swallowing fire that was already burning thanks to social media, oppressive governments, and general apathy to reality, and the only way that is proving effective in fighting back against it.

This podcast is going to be in English, as I figured I am already putting out more than enough Hindi content by way of my YouTube channel. Though this episode is free, it will have paid episodes too and members of my Patreon will have access to them.

Some thoughts on what the slop economy misses about why people like art.

Mostly because the thing LLMs focus on is not actually writing stye. A recent controversy with Grammarly made Cory Doctorow explain why.

This is the first of a members-only series of monologues I am starting this year on my YouTube channel. This one is about how best to define religions.

Why else would the CEO of OpenAI point out that it takes more energy to train humans than it takes to train AI models?

In which I warn against gatekeeping by those interested in defending their religion.

In which I make the case for defining nativity through time instead of space.

I recently finished the Foundation trilogy (just the first three books written in the 1940s) and decided to do an overview of the main ideas and events in the books. This will release on my YouTube channel in a few days.