Exploring the intersections of neuroscience, philosophy, technology, politics, and culture.
Most language models learn reasoning implicitly from internet text. They absorb patterns of what sounds convincing without explicitly modeling the structure of scientific arguments.
I. What I Know to Be True In 2016, I discovered financial and operational connections between D-Company—a transnational criminal syndicate—and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), an ultraconservative political party whose supporters have publicly celebrated extrajudicial killings on false accusations
I am writing this publicly because I have reached a point where I cannot carry this alone anymore. I have spent years trying to make sense of what has happened to me — while building advanced AI projects, winning hackathons, and applying to more than 600 jobs — yet I remain unemployed, isolated, and
In retrospect, I should not have been shocked. I had ignored my own instincts for years — partly because of the emotional pressure and dismissal I experienced from people closest to me.
On December 4th, 2024, Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. I had been expecting that something consequential was coming — a global pressure build-up was obvious months before this.
Generic LLMs can't: Calculate voting correlation across 178 UN resolutions Track how 184 countries voted on specific issues over 30 years Find speeches that reference UNSC Resolution 1325 with sub-second latency and full context Analyze temporal evolution of diplomatic positions using graph relation
Reflecting on divine communication, decentralized consciousness, and the trust that humanity will choose compassion.
The tragedy unfolding in Gaza is searing to the human conscience. We appear genetically wired to recoil from such suffering and to reach, however haltingly, for compassion and peace.
Your meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance in the White House on February 28, 2025 was a puzzling, thought-provoking spectacle.
At least 80% of New Yorkers consider cost of living, housing affordability, and public safety as serious problems. However, the manifestos of the two frontrunners in the Democratic mayoral race largely recycled yesterday's solutions to...
If the Abraham Accords had been implemented in both letter and spirit, the Middle East might already be well on the road to peace. Instead, the region is dotted with powder kegs that could ignite at any moment.
I write with a heavy heart after the devastating airstrikes of 13 June 2025, in which Israeli aircraft hit dozens of Iranian military and nuclear sites, causing great loss of life--including senior commanders and scientists--in a...
A man finds the ruins of an old city near his hometown. Curious about his ancestors, he begins to excavate. In the ruins, he finds evidence of architecture, engineering, art, and poetry that indicated a civilization led by a community of...
There are people who may resent your country for its role in spreading Wahhabism across the Muslim world, but most of them remain unaware of the extensive efforts you've undertaken to reverse such policies. This transformation is not...
As you embraced the papacy upon your election, facing a historic crowd at a historic time, the expressions on your face indicated overwhelm. With your lips sealed, you pulled in three strong vortexes of air through your nose, before...
As artificial intelligence gets exponentially better, disharmony in human intelligence would result in exponentially greater consequences due to the leverage provided by the former.
Achieving true superintelligence requires generative AI models capable of deeply modeling both human and non-human agents. While state-of-the-art generative models like GPT-4 can already parse emotions, sentiments, and psychological...
The search for next generation artificial intelligence is on with several outstanding teams pursuing diverse visions for the development of superintelligence. But it is already here.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are incredibly powerful, yet they face a major limitation: a fixed context window that restricts how much information they can "remember." This forces developers to carefully choose what to include in each...
This post about an exciting experiment I worked on last year: "House of Wisdom" --an AI-driven application designed for contextually rich conversations grounded in books, research reports, and laws, with answers accompanied by Mermaid...
Exploring whether artificial neural networks can help us understand the emergence of subjective experience in biological systems.
How should democratic societies regulate artificial intelligence while preserving innovation and protecting civil liberties?
Revisiting Husserl and Merleau-Ponty's ideas about embodied experience in an era of virtual reality and digital interfaces.
Researchers at Google DeepMind and Stanford University published a paper this year demonstrating how computational software agents can simulate believable human behavior. They created a sandbox environment, inspired by a video game called...
The events unfolding now were set into motion long ago. We may not be able to stop them but we can still build an inclusive vision for a better future.
In the Foundation series of Sci-Fi books written by Isaac Asimov, the main protagonist Dr. Harry Seldan is an expert in psychohistory which uses history, psychology, sociology, and statistical mathematics to predict the future of...
Most civilizations have encountered the dream to harmonize minds at scale but found it to be notoriously hard.