Bi-pedal on M.M Alam

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On this hot summer day, I'm staring out the window - the sun pounding down on the pavement - and watching cars pass by and humans walking along To imagine that one day, maybe 25-30 years from now, seeing bi-pedal machines walking by, while looking out the same window, will be as normal as seeing those cars - is a humbling yet exciting prospect Todays musing are inspired by R1-Omni, a ML Model that can detect emotions I did a superficial reading of it, but why stuff like this is exciting on some level is because we humans seem to be building operating systems to power robots and machines to operate like - humans. Everything I see and read these days in tech, makes me more and more convinced that one of the frontiers of human technological advancement as it relates to extending human capabilities, is the desire to recreate the human itself My belief in this is primarily since I am an optimist that the world is moving towards an abundance of wealth. We might, might not, see it in our ...
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2.99

 Guess what you can buy for $2.99?

A cup of coffee or 8 hours of this man’s life.


Sounds crass, but its true. This breadmakers name is Ifftikhar, he’s over 50 and I’ve known him for 10+ years, and there are millions just like him, working weekends to support their family, for literal pennies


It’s Sunday, and today I sit and think of where the world is going. Something is horribly wrong. We don’t need time machines to travel back in time, we just need an airplane


That’s how I felt moving from the US to Pakistan in the early 2000s - like I had travelled back in time - more than 2 decades later I still feel the same way. Social media has helped expose things but the intertia here is too high, I don’t anticipate the lives of such people changing even in the next couple of decades


While the world struggles with thinking about robots taking over their livelihood, people like Ifftikhar can barely comprehend what they’re talking about much less relate, because their daily lives are so untouched by these technological chnages


Life is incomprehensibly different for people in different parts of the world and you’ll never understand this unless you’ve lived in multiple places over the course of your life


Underlying systemic issues that cause such problems do not evade me, but they seem out of our control


Education then might be the equalizer, this seems to be the only somber realization I can come to


Just something to contemplate




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