AI Biases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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