If somebody wishes to converse with a knowledgeable person, chatbots offer a vastly superior virtual alternative. It curates the collective human knowledge for the person in conversation. I often check the authenticity and novelty of my thoughts with chatbots. These do not disappoint, but what I decipher is that these chatbots have their biases and may corroborate the biases of the users, as their prompts entail users' biases. They tend to be culturally inclined and favour the mainstream. It is as expected.
Niraj Kumar Jha
शनिवार, 26 अप्रैल 2025
AI Biases
The Ecosystem of Wisdom and Idiocy
Human beings inhabit a cultural ecosystem, and that ecosystem determines the thoughts and actions of human beings as wise or idiotic. Such conflicting ecosystems often coexist in a region, but it is the primary acculturation that places people in a particular ecosystem. Generally, a person is a slave to their ecosystem. This is the reason why most people treat others as idiots.
A person with historical and sociological education and scientific vision may break free from such ecotraps, but would be subject to the judgments of those who remain trapped. It is the trickiest pedagogical and academic challenge.
Niraj Kumar Jha
A person with historical and sociological education and scientific vision may break free from such ecotraps, but would be subject to the judgments of those who remain trapped. It is the trickiest pedagogical and academic challenge.
Niraj Kumar Jha
गुरुवार, 24 अप्रैल 2025
बर्बरता और सभ्यता
बर्बरता की प्रकृति नृशंस आक्रामकता है। सभ्यता की शक्ति विवेक, शोध, योजना, और प्रणाली है। किसी भी समस्या से निरंतर संघर्ष के स्थान पर इसके स्थायी निदान की युक्ति पर विचार करना ही विकल्प है। यह भी ध्यान रहे कि सभ्यता का मूल संवेदना है।
नीरज कुमार झा
नीरज कुमार झा
लेबल :
नीरज कुमार झा,
बर्बरता,
सभ्यता
शुक्रवार, 18 अप्रैल 2025
The SWOT of Times
Like other times but very unlike other times in terms of immensality of impactfulness, these times offer or suffer from conditions of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; the irony is that people view these selectively, mostly the negatives and hardly the positives, depending on their identity and position. Besides, many trending matters defy these categorisations. In this age, the mass media is genuinely mass and democratic through people's massive participation in discourses on social media, and this media brings forth all the injustices of earlier times and continuing oddities to the fore. This includes many fundamentals and fundamentalisms coming under scrutiny and questioning. The old commanding heights and hierarchies of intellectualism are completely broken. Nobody now trusts those ivory towers, and that is for solid reasons. At the same time, a comprehensive and constructive vision considering every dimension of time is nowhere to be seen, and, more worryingly, nobody seems to care.
Let us pray:
oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tat savitur vareṇyaṃ
bhargo devasya dhīmahi
dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt
– Ṛgveda 03.062.10
"We meditate on the adorable glory of the radiant sun; may She inspire our intelligence." (S. Radhakrishnan)
Let us get inspired to infuse some wisdom into the times.
Niraj Kumar Jha
Let us pray:
oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tat savitur vareṇyaṃ
bhargo devasya dhīmahi
dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt
– Ṛgveda 03.062.10
"We meditate on the adorable glory of the radiant sun; may She inspire our intelligence." (S. Radhakrishnan)
Let us get inspired to infuse some wisdom into the times.
Niraj Kumar Jha
बुधवार, 16 अप्रैल 2025
Conceptualising Pseudo-solution
Pseudo-solutions provide a temporary relief or illusion of relief. Troubled people often land up in the next level of problem or get only illusionary relief.
NIraj Kumar Jha
NIraj Kumar Jha
लेबल :
Niraj Kumar Jha,
Pseudo-solution
गुरुवार, 10 अप्रैल 2025
The New Order Set In
The Trump administration compels the world towards a settlement within a few weeks in office, which the GATT and its outcome, the WTO, could not do despite decades of negotiations. The unleashed would entail many successive phases that will require a complete overhaul of not only the international trade regime in totality but also domestic adjustments accordingly by all nations. A new international order set in.
Niraj Kumar Jha
Niraj Kumar Jha
बुधवार, 9 अप्रैल 2025
Artificial Intellectualism and General Dumbness
Online-sourced intellectualism and creativity worsen general dumbness. This is a pandemic-proportion crisis. Its direct fallout is a decline in morality. Intellect gained through the practice of the mind induces moral behaviour. This is under severe threat.
There is a way out: humanise the social structure and relations. And invent social purposes for positive, mind-driven human actions.
Niraj Kumar Jha
There is a way out: humanise the social structure and relations. And invent social purposes for positive, mind-driven human actions.
Niraj Kumar Jha
मंगलवार, 8 अप्रैल 2025
Birth Pangs of a New Order
Humanity fails to manage its successes. It created a virtual world with artificial intelligence and automated mechanisms for doing things. It eliminated distance in live communication and drudgery and fog in data processing. All are meant to serve human beings, but they are making most human beings irrelevant. The new demands the unity of humankind to reclaim its humanity.
The current international upheavals manifest the redundancy of old methods and mechanisms which continue to hold.
Humanity is failing itself by not engaging and negotiating to ease the birth of the new order. It will happen, but with a lot of pain.
Niraj Kumar Jha
रविवार, 6 अप्रैल 2025
The Ecology of Economics
The Trump administration reckons that high tariffs on imports would bring back manufacturing to the USA and help its economy rebound. It accuses its friends and foes alike of using tariffs, currency manipulation, and non-tariff barriers to bar American merchandise from entering their countries. Now, it has reciprocated but, mercifully, with reciprocat tariffs with half-discount.
Critics say this will not work for America. It will only create great difficulty for existing industries and consumers. They see a recession imminent following these measures.
The fact is that global supply chains have a rigidity of their own and cannot be undone in a whiff. More importantly, people fail to see that typical industries and businesses require a conducive ecology to flourish, and its crucial component is the availability of people attuned to particular jobs. This ecology is very difficult to create in a different place.
Things would reboot soon to the normal but with some painful disruptions and helpful corrections.
Meanwhile, India must brace for tech and trade wars engulfing the world by focusing on its internal economic order. It is about things already being done, i.e, furthering the ease of doing business, creating a more favourable ecology for innovativeness, and ensuring the safety and ease of living and doing things. Externally, India must make its economy so efficient and cost-effective that it has an edge over its competitors.
Niraj Kumar Jha
Critics say this will not work for America. It will only create great difficulty for existing industries and consumers. They see a recession imminent following these measures.
The fact is that global supply chains have a rigidity of their own and cannot be undone in a whiff. More importantly, people fail to see that typical industries and businesses require a conducive ecology to flourish, and its crucial component is the availability of people attuned to particular jobs. This ecology is very difficult to create in a different place.
Things would reboot soon to the normal but with some painful disruptions and helpful corrections.
Meanwhile, India must brace for tech and trade wars engulfing the world by focusing on its internal economic order. It is about things already being done, i.e, furthering the ease of doing business, creating a more favourable ecology for innovativeness, and ensuring the safety and ease of living and doing things. Externally, India must make its economy so efficient and cost-effective that it has an edge over its competitors.
Niraj Kumar Jha
बुधवार, 2 अप्रैल 2025
Ghiblism
Ghiblism, I define as people's longing for beauty, simplicity, innocence, and softness in their own selves and surroundings. Besides ghibling, they should put some effort into making the world like that.
Niraj Kumar Jha
Niraj Kumar Jha
लेबल :
Ghibling,
Ghiblise,
Ghiblism,
Niraj Kumar Jha
LPG to Imperialism
The trajectory was logical, but the world hardly cared. LPG was uniting the world and enriching people everywhere, but vested interests sabotaged the evolution. We are now back to the age of empires or the times of imperialism 2.0. The actors have already abandoned multilateralism for unilateralism. The smaller countries and poor people are now in more trouble, and so is the world.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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