Prakhar Gupta
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Writing on culture, ideas & life. Long-form conversations: PGX
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To Friends in the West and to the people of Pakistan, Jai hind 🇮🇳
Prakhar Gupta2,621,767 views • 1 year ago
Patrick Bet-David (Patrick Bet-David) speaks to India on PGX - The Prakhar Gupta Xperience Hindi dub in the next tweet. Timestamps ↓ 00:00 – Introduction 01:05 – How Patrick built his confidence 05:07 – 3 simple ways to build confidence 08:11 – How to find good friends and mentors 13:01 – How to do hard things 24:21 – Patrick Bet-David on India 30:16 – What marriage actually means 33:18 – Why family matters 38:29 – How to use humor 42:36 – The Power of Storytelling 48:28 – Stay curious about everyone 50:17 – The Four keys to success 57:26 – Humanity's Relationship with AI
Prakhar Gupta139,122 views • 11 months ago
Played a quick game with Daniel Negreanu (Daniel Negreanu) before the podcast. Wild how fast someone at his level can read you. We spoke about how people behave when the stakes rise, what pressure does to decision-making, how influence works at a table, and physical cues. Also got into failure, long losing stretches, early life, Vegas, reading people, chess vs poker and poker math. Very few people think this cleanly about competition and human behaviour. Timestamps below. 00:00 - Daniel's Feedback on my Game 02:56 - How to Read Body Language 05:23 - What Makes Daniel Great 11:55 - How to Influence Someone 15:17 - Dealing with Failures 18:47 - Lessons from the Game 22:44 - Poker vs Chess 26:42 - What Creates Charisma 36:02 - Thinking Under Pressure 40:52 - Daniel’s Early Life 46:36 - What Losing Teaches 50:26 - How Has Poker Changed 59:21 - High Stakes = Better Game 01:01:35 - Reading People & Poker Math 01:05:01 - Dealing with Jealousy 01:12:10 - What He Learned from His Woman 01:15:47 - Private Games in Vegas 01:22:23 - Questions for me
Prakhar Gupta114,188 views • 10 months ago
PGX Ideas with Aravind Srinivas, Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity - What does it mean to be intelligent? Why humans wonder. Why we create. Whether AI understands anything at all or is it merely mimicking intelligence. And the deeper questions that follow from that. We spoke about emergence, India’s competitive culture, China, behaviorism, memory, learning, hardware, and the question of where this all leads. The AI Hindi-dubbed version of this episode is also attached in this thread. Enjoy. Timestamps 00:00 - How did Aravind get into AI? 13:05 - India’s competitive culture 15:05 - Talent problem or system failure? 16:25 - How can India evolve? 17:45 - China’s approach to research 21:02 - What’s cutting-edge in AI today? 25:02 - What creates value in an economy? 28:45 - What is the internet built on? 32:48 - Can AI assist humans? 35:25 - Why do humans wonder? 37:25 - Why do humans create? 40:50 - Does memory still matter? 43:15 - Does curiosity create knowledge? 45:40 - Biological vs artificial intelligence 51:24 - Is curiosity uniquely human? 58:55 - Can AI shape human thinking? 1:05:24 - Do we understand intelligence? 1:10:50 - Meaning beyond behaviorism 1:21:48 - How do kids learn to learn? 1:25:43 - Why is hardware innovation hard? 1:31:19 - Can AI feel? 1:47:35 - Questions for me
Prakhar Gupta32,104 views • 10 months ago
Did a PGX Ideas episode with Gad Saad. In case you guys aren’t familiar with the format — I take one central question and chase it with the guest. With Gad, I asked: Why do we want what we want? That led us to questions like: - Why humans are wired to consume - Why we over-consume and compare - Why men chase power - How marketing exploits evolutionary instincts - Why people buy ideologies, not just products - And how technology will change human desire itself The Hindi-dubbed AI version is also attached in this thread. Timestamps: 00:00 — Why are humans wired to consume? 05:27 — Why do people avoid emotional principles? 08:36 — Why do we over-consume? 13:04 — Why do men chase power? 17:32 — How do humans consume? 29:40 — Are fake smiles a form of social deception? 33:11 — Why did Mamdani win? 39:40 — What do marketers understand about humans? 43:24 — Why do we buy through comparison? 45:44 — What’s broken in modern society? 48:10 — Why do intellectuals dress poorly? 56:14 — How marketing psychology actually works 1:05:00 — How do generations differ in consumption? 1:07:44 — The Sydney Sweeney controversy 1:10:33 — Does morality shape evolution? 1:15:35 — How will technology change consumption? 1:22:46 — Questions for me
Prakhar Gupta30,825 views • 9 months ago
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