Akhil Puri
@howshallwelive.bsky.social
I am an ex-climate tech entrepreneur. I write about the Metacrisis and how we can solve it. Check akhilpuri.substack.com
You are being lied to about Universal Basic Income.
AI & robotics companies say that massive job losses from automation won't be a concern because we will have such abundance that everyone can be given a UBI. This is a dangerous fantasy. The masses will instead be left to die. Here is why:
AI & robotics companies say that massive job losses from automation won't be a concern because we will have such abundance that everyone can be given a UBI. This is a dangerous fantasy. The masses will instead be left to die. Here is why:
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
You are being lied to about Universal Basic Income.
AI & robotics companies say that massive job losses from automation won't be a concern because we will have such abundance that everyone can be given a UBI. This is a dangerous fantasy. The masses will instead be left to die. Here is why:
AI & robotics companies say that massive job losses from automation won't be a concern because we will have such abundance that everyone can be given a UBI. This is a dangerous fantasy. The masses will instead be left to die. Here is why:
Harvard Research Reveals a Surprising Solution to Systems Change & the Metacrisis
Humans are storytelling creatures. As the world grapples with coordinating to solve the Metacrisis & drive systems change,new research from @harvard.edu shows that a surprising age-old mechanism might hold the answer
Humans are storytelling creatures. As the world grapples with coordinating to solve the Metacrisis & drive systems change,new research from @harvard.edu shows that a surprising age-old mechanism might hold the answer
April 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Harvard Research Reveals a Surprising Solution to Systems Change & the Metacrisis
Humans are storytelling creatures. As the world grapples with coordinating to solve the Metacrisis & drive systems change,new research from @harvard.edu shows that a surprising age-old mechanism might hold the answer
Humans are storytelling creatures. As the world grapples with coordinating to solve the Metacrisis & drive systems change,new research from @harvard.edu shows that a surprising age-old mechanism might hold the answer
Pessimism is a form of arrogance. It implies that one grasps the complexity of the world well enough to make perfectly accurate predictions.
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pessimism is a form of arrogance. It implies that one grasps the complexity of the world well enough to make perfectly accurate predictions.
If even half of what Sarah Williams shares about Facebook in her book ‘Careless people’ is true, then Mark Zuckerberg and a lot of the senior leadership at Facebook needs to be put behind bars.
March 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If even half of what Sarah Williams shares about Facebook in her book ‘Careless people’ is true, then Mark Zuckerberg and a lot of the senior leadership at Facebook needs to be put behind bars.
“Outrage is the fast food of meaning”- Tom Chi.
March 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Outrage is the fast food of meaning”- Tom Chi.
“The default, cheapest products in our stores are poison for the inside (the body) wrapped in poison for the outside (the environment). To drive real change, think about how to change the defaults”- Tom Chi
March 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“The default, cheapest products in our stores are poison for the inside (the body) wrapped in poison for the outside (the environment). To drive real change, think about how to change the defaults”- Tom Chi
What if considering our moral frameworks as universal is leading to the divide we see in the case of Luigi Mangione and Brian Thompson? An essay discussing the subjective nature of morality, how we can move past the division and drive systems change together
akhilpuri.substack.com/p/beyond-goo...
akhilpuri.substack.com/p/beyond-goo...
Beyond Good And Evil: The Limitations of Morality
Why Absolute Moral Judgments Fail Us—and What Works Instead
akhilpuri.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What if considering our moral frameworks as universal is leading to the divide we see in the case of Luigi Mangione and Brian Thompson? An essay discussing the subjective nature of morality, how we can move past the division and drive systems change together
akhilpuri.substack.com/p/beyond-goo...
akhilpuri.substack.com/p/beyond-goo...
Great advice from Herman Hesse on what to do when the world around us seems to be collapsing
March 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Great advice from Herman Hesse on what to do when the world around us seems to be collapsing
I understand your concern @samasama.bsky.social . You know what the solution is? Live up to your name by open-sourcing the damn thing & making it a public service that people will be happy to contribute to. Also looking at you @sundarpichaigoogle.bsky.social
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OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.
futurism.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I understand your concern @samasama.bsky.social . You know what the solution is? Live up to your name by open-sourcing the damn thing & making it a public service that people will be happy to contribute to. Also looking at you @sundarpichaigoogle.bsky.social
futurism.com/openai-over-...
futurism.com/openai-over-...
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth & power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young & ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so intoxicating, as possibility"- Kierkegaard
February 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth & power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young & ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so intoxicating, as possibility"- Kierkegaard
Self-importance is a prison
February 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Self-importance is a prison
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
February 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
The golden hour on Toronto's waterfront ♥️😍
February 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The golden hour on Toronto's waterfront ♥️😍
Reposted by Akhil Puri
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
February 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love- Carl Sagan ♥️
February 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love- Carl Sagan ♥️
Carl Sagan is peerless. I am reading his novel ‘Contact’ & am continuously blown away by how many things he has an effortless command of- astronomy, electrical engineering, physics, language, beauty, connection, human relationships, humour, hubris, gender discrimination. The list goes on and on.
January 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Carl Sagan is peerless. I am reading his novel ‘Contact’ & am continuously blown away by how many things he has an effortless command of- astronomy, electrical engineering, physics, language, beauty, connection, human relationships, humour, hubris, gender discrimination. The list goes on and on.
Reposted by Akhil Puri
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. CARL SAGAN
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. CARL SAGAN
Girl, is your name GitHub? Coz I keep wanting to commit to you.
January 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Girl, is your name GitHub? Coz I keep wanting to commit to you.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”- J. Krishnamurti
January 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”- J. Krishnamurti
"Something's beginning is always a particularly magical point, the opening into a world that's new.
There- this book has already begun, which means the magic has been done. And, now, all that's needed is to find the words to fill the abyss between beginning & end." - Peter Kingsley in Catafalque 🙇
There- this book has already begun, which means the magic has been done. And, now, all that's needed is to find the words to fill the abyss between beginning & end." - Peter Kingsley in Catafalque 🙇
January 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Something's beginning is always a particularly magical point, the opening into a world that's new.
There- this book has already begun, which means the magic has been done. And, now, all that's needed is to find the words to fill the abyss between beginning & end." - Peter Kingsley in Catafalque 🙇
There- this book has already begun, which means the magic has been done. And, now, all that's needed is to find the words to fill the abyss between beginning & end." - Peter Kingsley in Catafalque 🙇
Saw this beautiful sunset on the Toronto waterfront today 😍
#sunset #nature #Toronto #water #lakeontario
#sunset #nature #Toronto #water #lakeontario
January 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Saw this beautiful sunset on the Toronto waterfront today 😍
#sunset #nature #Toronto #water #lakeontario
#sunset #nature #Toronto #water #lakeontario
A timely passage from 'The I Ching or Book of Changes'- Everything on earth is subject to change. Prosperity is followed by decline: this is the eternal law on earth. Evil can indeed be held in check but not permanently abolished. It always returns.
January 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A timely passage from 'The I Ching or Book of Changes'- Everything on earth is subject to change. Prosperity is followed by decline: this is the eternal law on earth. Evil can indeed be held in check but not permanently abolished. It always returns.
"First a banger, then a dud." - Zen Koan
January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"First a banger, then a dud." - Zen Koan
Gotta respect Zuckerberg's ability to spew bullshit with a straight face
January 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Gotta respect Zuckerberg's ability to spew bullshit with a straight face