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Why the Poor Don't Kill Us. The Illicit Happiness of Other People. Serious Men. Miss Laila, Armed...Columnist. Creator of the Netflix series, ‘Decoupled’.
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Manu Joseph: Why artificial intelligence may be a better judge of what’s worthy than humans

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By Manu Joseph Verified
| Mint
James Bond villains and Anthropic’s CEO say the same things. That they have built something that can end the world. The difference is that Dario Amodei appears to feel bad about it. He reminds me of a Marxist who flies business class and probably collapses onto its flat bed in deep tragic empathy for those in coach. Why do Big AI CEOs reveal that their products are dangerous? In these admissions, there is a bit of bragging about how advanced they are.
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Manu Joseph: Why it isn’t very hard to get laughs in a country where jokes are rarely aired in public

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By Manu Joseph Verified
| Mint
A reason why the recent student protests were a triumph is that they were highly entertaining, though not for everyone. And they were fun because India has become such a suffocating place that any lampooning of politicians and the judiciary is funny. Some of the protestors were abusive, using language we have never heard in political analysis. They had more shock value than they deserved because we have become a stiff society.
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The Real Reason Modi Is Losing the Young

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By Manu Joseph Verified
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FOR decades there has been a covenant between India and its young—pass these entrance exams, and you are set. You can then escape India, physically and even within India. It was the privatization of hope. In return, the young wasted their youth in the gloom of preparing for life, to make it to some humid town where there would be an ‘institution of excellence.’ Thanks for reading By Manu Joseph! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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