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116-year-old grandma walks 11 km to Tirumala, receives a blessing she never expected
PV Ramana Kumar Tirupati News: For most people, climbing the steep 11-km Alipiri footpath to Tirumala is physically demanding. For 116-year-old Navaneethamma, however, it was a journey powered not by strength, but by unwavering faith. The centenarian devotee from Tamil Nadu, who has been staying with relatives in Jeevakona, Tirupati , set out on July 3 with a single wish: to seek the blessings of Lord Venkateswara.
From 'CEO of Andhra Pradesh' to 'people's leader': Why Chandrababu Naidu is reinventing his image
PV Ramana Kumar An AI-generated video shared by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on his X account has gone viral on social media. “I couldn't stop laughing after watching this video,” the Chief Minister wrote while sharing the clip, drawing widespread attention online. The video features a young child seated in a District Collector's chair, attending an official meeting and interacting with Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu via video conference.
Targeting Congress through Revanth Reddy? Analysts see a deeper BJP strategy
PV Ramana Kumar If an opposing camp is inherently weak but survives solely because of one strong leader, the first step towards defeating it is to separate that leader from the organisation. Once the pillar is removed, the structure collapses on its own, making victory easier. That is the essence of political strategy. According to several political observers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be attempting a similar strategy in Telangana.
Telangana puts intermediate merger plan on hold, admissions to proceed as usual
PV Ramana Kumar The Telangana government has decided to continue Intermediate admissions for the 2026–27 academic year under the existing system. The Chief Minister's Office issued an official statement confirming the decision. Based on the recent Telangana Education Commission's report, the state government had been considering merging Intermediate education with the school education system and had initiated preliminary groundwork for the reform.
Telangana's political face-off: BRS chief KCR vows comeback after CM Revanth Reddy's dare
PV Ramana Kumar The political war between Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) chief K Chandrashekar Rao intensified as both leaders traded sharp attacks during parallel tours in North Telangana, turning public meetings into platforms for a direct and aggressive showdown. On Monday, Revanth Reddy visited Kaleshwaram Temple, where he laid the foundation stone for renovation works of the Muktheswara Alayam and later inspected the damaged Medigadda barrage.
'Serious imbalance': Telangana CM writes to PM Modi over delimitation bill, suggests 'hybrid model'
PV Ramana Kumar Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has stepped up his opposition to the proposed Lok Sabha seat expansion and delimitation exercise, writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Ministers of southern states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, calling for a united stand among southern states.
Should Students Clean Toilets? SC Commission Seeks Report On IAS Officer's Remark In Telangana
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has issued notices to the Telangana Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police regarding controversial remarks made by IAS officer Dr VS Alagu Varshini. The Commission demands an action-taken report within 15 days concerning allegedly derogatory instructions given to Gurukul school authorities.
KCR To Expel His Daughter Kavitha From BRS Amid Escalating Internal Crisis
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is on the brink of a major internal restructuring, with party president K Chandrashekar Rao reportedly preparing to expel his daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha. Kavitha, who heads Telangana Jagruthi, has clashed with the partys leadership due to her persistent criticism of both the organisation and its senior members.
Dialogue on What It Means For Something to Have A Function/Purpose — LessWrong
Context for LW audience: Ramana, Steve and John regularly talk about stuff in the general cluster of agency, abstraction, optimization, compression, purpose, representation, etc. We decided to write down some of our discussion and post it here. This is a snapshot of us figuring stuff out together. Hooks from Ramana: Where does normativity come from? Two senses of "why" (from Dennett): How come? vs What for? (The latter is more sophisticated, and less resilient.
Magnati and Biz2X announce embedded finance partnership
Magnati, a leading payment solution provider in the Middle East, has partnered with Biz2X, a global fintech leader in lending platform technology, to introduce one of the UAE’s largest embedded finance platform for SMEs. This collaboration harnesses AI-powered underwriting to enhance credit accessibility within the country’s thriving SME sector.
Magnati enters into a partnership with Fils to elevate and drive sustainable finance and payments on the sidelines of COP28
Magnati, a leading payments solutions provider in the Middle East region, is further accelerating its sustainability efforts through a strategic collaboration with Fils, a pioneering ESG focused fintech platform. Through this collaboration, Magnati aims to provide its merchants with actionable environmental insights and promote green payments as part of its broader commitment to sustainable finance.
Magnati collaborates with TerraPay to revolutionise cross-border payments
Magnati, a leading payments company in the Middle East, is empowering merchants by adding a new payment method to its product suite in collaboration with TerraPay, a leading global cross-border payments network, with an expansive reach across 7.5Bn+ bank accounts, 2.1Bn+ mobile wallets and 29 global licenses and regulatory approvals. This integration allows many African visitors and residents in the UAE to conveniently pay for goods and services using their preferred digital wallets.
Wio Bank Partners with Magnati to Improve Access to Payment Services for Wio Business Customers
Wio Bank, the UAE’s first platform bank, is partnering with Magnati, a regional leader in the payment solution industry, to improve access to payment processing services for customers of Wio Business, the first digital banking application from Wio caterings to SMEs, entrepreneurs and freelancers. The partnership enhances the tools available to Wio Bank’s SME merchants, who will be able to enjoy seamless and secure payment infrastructure and technology powered by Magnati.
The way we pay today can help us predict tomorrow
There is a lot that we can learn from the way we pay. Every time a card is inserted, tapped or used online it creates a digital DNA which, under the microscope, reveals instructive patterns in the payment. Within these patterns lies valuable insights about people, economics, culture, and society. Perhaps of most value, digital payment data patterns can offer important forward-looking trends about the social and economic factors that will likely affect people and places in the future.
Consequentialism & corrigibility — LessWrong
(Note: The original version of this post said "preferences over trajectories" all over the place.
The Pointers Problem: Human Values Are A Function Of Humans' Latent Variables — LessWrong
Why This Post Is Interesting This post takes a previously-very-conceptually-difficult alignment problem, and shows that we can model this problem in a straightforward and fairly general way, just using good ol' Bayesian utility maximizers. The formalization makes the Pointers Problem mathematically legible: it's clear what the problem is, it's clear why the problem is important and hard for alignment, and that clarity is not just conceptual but mathematically precise.
Reframing Impact — LessWrong
This sequence is written to be broadly accessible, although perhaps its focus on capable AI systems assumes familiarity with basicargumentsfortheimportanceofAI alignment. The technical appendices are an exception, targeting the technically inclined. Why do I claim that an impact measure would be "the first proposed safeguard which maybe actually stops a powerful agent with an imperfect objective from ruining things – without assuming anything about the objective"?
Designing agent incentives to avoid reward tampering
By Tom Everitt, Ramana Kumar, and Marcus Hutter From an AI safety perspective, having a clear design principle and a crisp characterization of what problem it solves means that we don’t have to guess which agents are safe. In this post and paper we describe how a design principle called current-RF optimization avoids the reward function tampering problem. Reinforcement learning (RL) agents are designed to maximize reward.
Thoughts on Human Models — LessWrong
Human values and preferences are hard to specify, especially in complex domains. Accordingly, much AGI safety research has focused on approaches to AGI design that refer to human values and preferences indirectly, by learning a model that is grounded in expressions of human values (via stated preferences, observed behaviour, approval, etc.) and/or real-world processes that generate expressions of those values.
Digital Wallets: Enhancing Move Towards Cashless Society in VAT Era
As nations across the globe continue to make remarkable progress in the race towards cashless economies, it's no secret that we are living in a rapidly changing society. Notes and coins are quickly becoming a thing of the past, with smart devices set to replace traditional bulky wallets and purses in the near future.
Digital wallets: Enhancing move towards cashless society in VAT era
As nations across the globe continue to make remarkable progress in the race towards cashless economies, it's no secret that we are living in a rapidly changing society. Notes and coins are quickly becoming a thing of the past, with smart devices set to replace traditional bulky wallets and purses in the near future.
Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover — LessWrong
I think that in the coming 15-30 years, the world could plausibly develop “transformative AI”: AI powerful enough to bring us into a new, qualitatively different future, via . This sort of AI could be sufficient to make this the most important century of all time for humanity.
The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." —Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode "Zombies" are putatively beings that are atom-by-atom identical to us, governed by all the same third-party-visible physical laws, except that they are not conscious.
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