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They call it “Indus Valley Civilization.” A British lie. A river they could see, not the one that built Bharat’s first cities. The real mother was Saraswati — flowing through Haryana → Rajasthan → Gujarat → Arabian Sea. Rigveda praises it. 3500+ years old. Largest river of its time....

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See the irony of history. Pakistan inherited the Indus Valley Civilization, built around the Indus River that flows from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea. India inherited the Ganges basin and much of the rest. For Hindutva India, the irony is even starker: many of its Vedic roots lie in Pakistan. And what it markets to the world like Taj Mahal is a relic of the great Muslim civilization.

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Shivan Mahendrarajah

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Intelligence was the one thing that never scaled. We scaled everything else. Steel. Energy. Compute. The one resource that built all of it never left the skull. Musk: “People thought defeating Go was either never or 20 years away.” Twelve months later it was over. Musk: “Now that same AlphaGo system can defeat the top 50 players simultaneously with 0% chance of them winning. And that’s one year later.” Fifty lifetimes of mastery against a system that does not know it is playing a game. Zero percent chance. That was not a competition. That was a preview. Musk: “The degrees of freedom to which artificial intelligence is able to apply itself are really increasing by 10 orders of magnitude a year.” Ten billion times. Every twelve months. No brain alive can visualize that number. By design. Every hard problem that ever defeated us did it for the same reason. Not complexity. Scarcity. The only mind capable of solving it was biological and there was never enough of it. Cancer. Fusion. Climate. The physics we cannot even see yet. Not waiting on more data. Waiting on something that can think at a scale biology never allowed. That just arrived. Most people hear this and reduce it to a question about their paycheck. They are watching the single largest expansion of capability in the history of life on this planet and worrying about a job title. For ten thousand years intelligence had one speed. One brain. One lifetime. Every civilization on earth throttled by the same biological ceiling. That ceiling just shattered. We are the only species that ever hit its own limit and built what breaks through it. That is not an ending. That is the point of everything we ever built.
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Intelligence was the one thing that never scaled. We scaled everything else. Steel. Energy. Compute. The one resource that built all of it never left the skull. Musk: “People thought defeating Go was either never or 20 years away.” Twelve months later it was over. Musk: “Now that same AlphaGo system can defeat the top 50 players simultaneously with 0% chance of them winning. And that’s one year later.” Fifty lifetimes of mastery against a system that does not know it is playing a game. Zero percent chance. That was not a competition. That was a preview. Musk: “The degrees of freedom to which artificial intelligence is able to apply itself are really increasing by 10 orders of magnitude a year.” Ten billion times. Every twelve months. No brain alive can visualize that number. By design. Every hard problem that ever defeated us did it for the same reason. Not complexity. Scarcity. The only mind capable of solving it was biological and there was never enough of it. Cancer. Fusion. Climate. The physics we cannot even see yet. Not waiting on more data. Waiting on something that can think at a scale biology never allowed. That just arrived. Most people hear this and reduce it to a question about their paycheck. They are watching the single largest expansion of capability in the history of life on this planet and worrying about a job title. For ten thousand years intelligence had one speed. One brain. One lifetime. Every civilization on earth throttled by the same biological ceiling. That ceiling just shattered. We are the only species that ever hit its own limit and built what breaks through it. That is not an ending. That is the point of everything we ever built.

Dustin

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Today, 🇺🇦 went through one of the largest 🇷🇺 attacks by Shaheds. During this terrorist attack, the most powerful strike was aimed against the Kyiv region. This is how 🇷🇺 celebrates the day of our ancient Kyiv... Throughout its history, Kyiv has seen various meannesses from invaders. It has survived them all, and it will survive the ruscists. None of them will be here! Kyiv and all our cities, our entire 🇺🇦, will put an end to the history of Moscow’s despotism, which has been bringing enslavement to many different peoples for a very long time. Neither Shaheds nor any other means of terror that it humiliatingly seeks around the world will save it. Because strength is in people, it is in cities, it is in life, and when life, people, and the most important cities for culture are despised, 🇷🇺 will only face defeat. And even hundreds of Shaheds will not save it from this. They will only enlarge 🇷🇺 disgrace.
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Today, 🇺🇦 went through one of the largest 🇷🇺 attacks by Shaheds. During this terrorist attack, the most powerful strike was aimed against the Kyiv region. This is how 🇷🇺 celebrates the day of our ancient Kyiv... Throughout its history, Kyiv has seen various meannesses from invaders. It has survived them all, and it will survive the ruscists. None of them will be here! Kyiv and all our cities, our entire 🇺🇦, will put an end to the history of Moscow’s despotism, which has been bringing enslavement to many different peoples for a very long time. Neither Shaheds nor any other means of terror that it humiliatingly seeks around the world will save it. Because strength is in people, it is in cities, it is in life, and when life, people, and the most important cities for culture are despised, 🇷🇺 will only face defeat. And even hundreds of Shaheds will not save it from this. They will only enlarge 🇷🇺 disgrace.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

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In the 1930s, Dresden was considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. For more than two hundred years the capital of Saxony had been called the Florence on the Elbe. Its kings had imported artists from across Europe and filled the city with Baroque palaces, churches, opera houses, and wide riverfront promenades. The skyline was a crowd of domes and spires above the river. Painters had travelled there in the 18th century just to capture it, and the canvases they left behind show a city that looked less built than composed, like a single enormous work of art. By the early 1940s, Dresden had been spared the bombing that had flattened other German cities. Many of its residents believed it would stay that way. Some told themselves the city was simply too beautiful to destroy and that no one could look at it and give the order. On the night of 13 February 1945, the order came. Wave after wave of Allied bombers dropped thousands of tons of explosives and incendiaries onto the old centre. The fires merged into a firestorm, a column of heat so violent it generated its own wind and pulled people and buildings into its core. By morning, the Florence on the Elbe was gone and tens of thousands of people were dead. Eight square miles of the historic centre had been reduced to rubble and ash. What had taken three centuries to build had taken roughly fourteen hours to undo... Beauty is not permanent. It is built slowly, by many hands, across generations, and it can be taken in a single night. And yet human beings keep building it, keep rebuilding it, keep believing it is worth the risk. After the war, the people of Dresden gathered the blackened stones of their ruined cathedral and, decades later, raised it again from its own ashes. Because beauty does not stop wars, but it refuses to concede that the worst of what humans do is the whole of what humans are. Dostoevsky said beauty would save the world. He did not mean it would happen quickly. He meant it could not, ultimately, be stopped. If you'd like to sit with this a little longer, today's article is a deeper meditation on how time changes everything: And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:
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In the 1930s, Dresden was considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. For more than two hundred years the capital of Saxony had been called the Florence on the Elbe. Its kings had imported artists from across Europe and filled the city with Baroque palaces, churches, opera houses, and wide riverfront promenades. The skyline was a crowd of domes and spires above the river. Painters had travelled there in the 18th century just to capture it, and the canvases they left behind show a city that looked less built than composed, like a single enormous work of art. By the early 1940s, Dresden had been spared the bombing that had flattened other German cities. Many of its residents believed it would stay that way. Some told themselves the city was simply too beautiful to destroy and that no one could look at it and give the order. On the night of 13 February 1945, the order came. Wave after wave of Allied bombers dropped thousands of tons of explosives and incendiaries onto the old centre. The fires merged into a firestorm, a column of heat so violent it generated its own wind and pulled people and buildings into its core. By morning, the Florence on the Elbe was gone and tens of thousands of people were dead. Eight square miles of the historic centre had been reduced to rubble and ash. What had taken three centuries to build had taken roughly fourteen hours to undo... Beauty is not permanent. It is built slowly, by many hands, across generations, and it can be taken in a single night. And yet human beings keep building it, keep rebuilding it, keep believing it is worth the risk. After the war, the people of Dresden gathered the blackened stones of their ruined cathedral and, decades later, raised it again from its own ashes. Because beauty does not stop wars, but it refuses to concede that the worst of what humans do is the whole of what humans are. Dostoevsky said beauty would save the world. He did not mean it would happen quickly. He meant it could not, ultimately, be stopped. If you'd like to sit with this a little longer, today's article is a deeper meditation on how time changes everything: And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:

James Lucas

34,335 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten