In the millennia before the 1700s, 1800s and early 1900s there were large families. Not only were people living in joint families, parents had 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 children and more. What that did was it these two factors, the joint family system and large immediate families, parents with large number of children built a strong interconnected family structure. The effect of this was compounded by the gotra system wherein the relationship was supposed to be maintained over the past five generations; after five generations you could intermarry because then it was considered that the blood relationship had broken. Now in this contextual background it developed a society which was deeply interconnected and it developed a family system which was deeply interconnected. People cared about each other not just real brothers and sisters but even cousins. That is why when marriages took place entire villages were involved and a lot of people came because there were a lot of interconnecti...
Before We Talk About AGI, We Need to Talk About Consciousness Everyone in tech has an opinion on when artificial general intelligence arrives. Lab leaders say it's close — some have spoken of AI broadly outperforming humans at almost everything by 2026 or 2027; others put it at five to ten years. Yet others claim five to twenty. On the other side, some serious researchers like Yann LeCun etc argue current architectures can't get there at all, and broader academic surveys put the median estimate for human-level machine intelligence closer to the 2040s or later. That's not a narrow band of disagreement. That's the most credentialed people in the field unable to agree within multiple decades of each other. And underneath that disagreement sits a question almost nobody in the timeline debate is asking directly: what actually is the thing we're trying to build toward? I come at this from an unusual angle — · Years of wo...