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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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A Famous Motivational Story is Bullshit

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By Manu Joseph 
| Substack
WHEN motivational gurus say ‘believe in yourself,’ they mean delude yourself. But it works. Belief can make things happen, usually by overriding caution and common sense. However, the sacred status of belief in the self-help genre is probably because it is often wrongly credited for triumphs that are poorly analysed. Much touted evidence of the glory of belief is pure nonsense. The most famous evidence of it is, in fact, a poor assessment of a simple phenomenon.
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Manu Joseph: wrong-side driving is rising in India. Here's what it says about our future

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By Manu Joseph 
| Mint
As an Indian, my standards for public spaces are so low that what I admire in other countries is that their cars move in lanes. I am transfixed by images of Lebanese and Iranian people fleeing war in their cars—in orderly lanes. I find it odd that any two nations that observe lane discipline would be at war with each other, given the grace and social intelligence they demonstrate on their streets.
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Manu Joseph: Pope Leo’s warnings about AI have hit the nail on the head about one thing

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By Manu Joseph 
| Mint
I haven’t read much of anything Catholic, not even the Bible. A few days ago, Pope Leo XIV issued an encyclical, which is Vatican for a ‘circular.’ Across more than 42,000 words, he described the problem of artificial intelligence (AI). I may have quarrels with many of his fears, but I believe the pontiff is right about his chief concern, which was also the unspoken thread that ran across the whole lament—that AI will create a vast new underclass and it could be more debasing than poverty.
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