On Polarities

I think it was when I was maybe 12 and at my school annual function. My biggest bully and I were playing king and queen. I was playing the King and she was playing the Queen. In the play the King banishes the Queen from his kingdom. I poured my heart and soul into that particular bit. It was my way of fighting back a little bit. No matter how lame. I overdid it. She cried for real. The play was a super success in our humble little colony function. It was no less than celebrity status. A tiny fractal of what felt like the real thing. School came around again and here we were again - she coming at me with her group and me stuck in a decision paralysis of fight or flight. But suddenly I felt this emotion where she was vulnerable on stage. Suddenly I could feel why one might get into the bully career. I felt like an equal. Like 'go ahead, do your thing' kinda sudden camaraderie. It was no longer an asymmetric relationship suddenly but a truly symmetric one. I felt like she and I are the same. What is different is where you are located in the system. She was the class monitor. I was a backbencher.”

No. I don't experience it as a polarity. AI for me is a system that gives approximate general opinions. People do that too. In my entire life experience I cannot remember a single moment where people were not giving general, approximate, often straight up incorrect opinion on everything and anything. It was accepted because there didn't exist a system that could do it better. The burden of accuracy largely rested on academics and lawyers and doctors. Where the accuracy mattered as a matter of principle. But that was less than 10% of people. So I would say AI does the same thing more accurately with the internet acting as an alternate source to verify things. The sense 'man vs machine' competition comes from a very specific corporate POV. I don't think at the level of common people AI is something divisive or should be. Life is still physical. We are still going to fall sick, take care of home, parent children, cook food. None of that changes. It can be made simpler, I suppose, but it cannot be automated in a way people think. Carework needs intentionality. AI is not intentional.”

I guess because the burden of being deep and being fast is shared across 3 systems. Ajinkya, me and AI. The resolution is in the weave, not individual ability. That limits the scope of what you can create and experience. But if you delegate well and develop trust then the possibilities that you can explore grow exponentially.”

Hahahaha. This is going to sound a bit loopy, but India won because it hasn't attempted to resolve any polarity at all. It just expands to let the polarities remain and fight but never overwhelm the whole system. Kind of like letting children play and fight each other but preventing the absolute worst-case scenario. This also means that just like families, India has an extremely complicated relationship with all parts of itself. But that's also where the strength comes from. That is also the only way it knows how to exist.”