The harsh truth is that while having children is a God-given right, the current system does little to ensure people are mentally, physically, or spiritually ready for parenthood.

Advertisements are part of the shopping experience, and powerful tools like AI will allow creators and marketers to engineer blockbuster AI interactive advertisements that elevate consumerism to a new level of value exchange.

“We're going to build systems that are objective driven. I call this objective driven AI and it's the fact that the output that is produced by the AI system is not the result of just producing a token after the other. It's the result of optimizing an objective with respect to a set of actions you take. So you have some mental model in your head, in your mind, in the mind of the system. The system has a mental model of the situation it was to, or the environment it wants to act into. It's imagining a sequence of actions it's going to accomplish. And through the sequence of actions and its mental model, it can predict what the outcome is going to be. And now you can check whether this outcome satisfies a set of objectives. So one of them is, did I accomplish the task that I set out to accomplish?” Prof Yann LeCun on ‘Into The Impossible’ podcast with host Dr Brian Keating

Journal Entry 2026/01/09 I wandered through one of the most beautiful shopping malls in the world, yet my soul felt no pull toward the rituals of consumerism. Instead I drifted instinctively toward a quiet bookstore, losing time between the aisles, brushing past shelves that opened doorways into other worlds. In the end, I chose to spoil & indulge my curiosity, adding a few new companions to the home library 📚

As an aspiring computer scientist, I strive to approximate Truth by understanding constraints and approaching ideas with an open heart and mind. I aim to absorb ideas beyond their labels. Boundaries should be pushed but three domains demand clear demarcation and care: governance, culture and religion.

Believing in simulation theory makes the idea of NPC-like behavior a lot easier to tolerate.

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When studying computer networks, isn’t it amazing to explore how radio and electromagnetic waves are transmitted from devices? By analyzing their patterns, how the waves interfere, clash, & combine and how data packets rides the magic of those waves. 🌊 A moment where physics, information theory and human intention collapse into a single phenomenon.

Love it all❤️‍🔥

Application algorithms attract different types of users. An algorithm focused on delivering “Truth” can be analogized to one’s reflection in a mirror and many people don’t like what they see when they do.

Constraint, when introduced into a system, can spark creativity. Interacting with AI built on carefully designed constraints, forces users to become more precise and imaginative with their language (whether words, numbers or patterns) to achieve the desired outcome.

Reality is primary. Tools are amplifiers. Confusion begins when the amplifier is mistaken for the source. Tools don’t replace reality. They expand what’s possible within it. Tools never replace reality but augment our interface with it. Reality remains the substrate. Tools are just leverage to build on top of that substrate.

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Once put away a watch that felt meaningless after a hard goodbye. Maybe I was just wishing time could pause or rewind. Now a spark of connection & meaning brought it back to my wrist, a little reminder that accepting the flow of Time is part of growth & death.

Journal Entry 2026/01/07 Spoke to my sister this morning, who’s an artist. I urged her to use AI in her craft. She said AI takes away the human aspect of art. I replied: the canvas, the paint and the brush aren’t human either yet we use them to create Truth and Beauty.

Every human being loves to read. The trick is to find something to read that interests you, that satisfies your unique individual curiosity. 📚

The fundamental axiom of existence in physical reality is action. We cannot speak ‘matter’ into existence however the thought mechanism to speak of such things is an action in and of itself.

Historically, innovation flourishes in societies that protect individual agency, free markets (minimal government regulation, intervention & oversight) and private experimentation. When entrepreneurs and capital are allowed to test ideas with minimal friction, progress and prosperity follow.

Civilization is a social experiment. No one knows what the outcome of it will be…

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” Prof Richard Dawkins