This year I relaunched this newsletter promising not more than a post a week. I think I have been very successful at keeping to that promise. Here is a roundup of my posts for this year, not in chronological order.
In my relaunch post, I compared Twitter to the mound over Vikramaditya’s throne, in reverse. I advised you that you should stay away from it. Since then, it has been taken over by a lunatic, so the advice is all the more relevant
I have quite a few thoughts on AI. I wrote three posts on and around the topic of artificial intelligence, fewer than I had intended. My second post was about how Chat GPT is showing signs of intelligence.
A subsequent post attempted to refute the Chinese Room thought experiment:
My last post (before this one) had one section devoted to the Turing test. The first section of this post is about the culture and conditions needed to be an innovative economy.
Tangentially related, but not exactly on AI, is about Open AI and how it is like the BJP:
My favourite post of this year is this one, about the thoughts that got triggered when I was watching a Yakshagana performance:
I published a couple of somewhat idiosyncratic posts. I discovered that Deepavali and Halloween have common origins:
And I decided to answer a question posed by a Hindi film song by using Evolutionary Biology:
The last two posts (again, not in chronological order) are elaborations of ideas I had already propounded previously in my blog: