Ishita Deshmukh | Precipice
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Between the Silicon Valley tech optimists that broadcast AGI as some sort of god-like intelligence and cultural theorists over-romanticising AGI, the public continuous to be deluded and mislead about the meaning of AGI.
I am tired of reading selective information supporting the great AGI delusion.
I am tired of reading selective information supporting the great AGI delusion.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Between the Silicon Valley tech optimists that broadcast AGI as some sort of god-like intelligence and cultural theorists over-romanticising AGI, the public continuous to be deluded and mislead about the meaning of AGI.
I am tired of reading selective information supporting the great AGI delusion.
I am tired of reading selective information supporting the great AGI delusion.
No matter how much tools like GPT get optimised, they can never get better without human creatives.
There can be no optimisation without human input. There is no data if there is nobody producing inspiring work.
There can be no optimisation without human input. There is no data if there is nobody producing inspiring work.
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
No matter how much tools like GPT get optimised, they can never get better without human creatives.
There can be no optimisation without human input. There is no data if there is nobody producing inspiring work.
There can be no optimisation without human input. There is no data if there is nobody producing inspiring work.
Living in a digital monoculture is exhausting.
Even real life conversations circle around the same topics. Echo chambers for decades.
Even real life conversations circle around the same topics. Echo chambers for decades.
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Living in a digital monoculture is exhausting.
Even real life conversations circle around the same topics. Echo chambers for decades.
Even real life conversations circle around the same topics. Echo chambers for decades.
What is the value of surpassing effort if it costs us original, independent thought?
Who are we, if not the for the way we think?
Who are we, if not the for the way we think?
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What is the value of surpassing effort if it costs us original, independent thought?
Who are we, if not the for the way we think?
Who are we, if not the for the way we think?
how do AI platforms like gpt deal with ethics? Under pressure, systems reveals what they’re willing to tolerate. At the end, the ethics of these systems reflects what we humans prioritise and, ultimately how much suffering is justified.
What are we willing to lose for the supposed greater good?
What are we willing to lose for the supposed greater good?
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
how do AI platforms like gpt deal with ethics? Under pressure, systems reveals what they’re willing to tolerate. At the end, the ethics of these systems reflects what we humans prioritise and, ultimately how much suffering is justified.
What are we willing to lose for the supposed greater good?
What are we willing to lose for the supposed greater good?
Friendship in the digital age feel bland, surface level and unalive. When I compare this to my parents or grandparents’ generation, their relationships, the contrast is unbelievable.
Are we just so consumed by our own digital bubbles that we’ve taken everything for granted?
Are we just so consumed by our own digital bubbles that we’ve taken everything for granted?
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Friendship in the digital age feel bland, surface level and unalive. When I compare this to my parents or grandparents’ generation, their relationships, the contrast is unbelievable.
Are we just so consumed by our own digital bubbles that we’ve taken everything for granted?
Are we just so consumed by our own digital bubbles that we’ve taken everything for granted?
People don’t hate AI art because of copyright.
They hate it because it threatens one of our oldest signals of humanness.
I talk about this in the first episode of my podcast—Precipice Signals.
If that idea intrigues you, give it a listen: open.spotify.com/show/5UEZYYC...
They hate it because it threatens one of our oldest signals of humanness.
I talk about this in the first episode of my podcast—Precipice Signals.
If that idea intrigues you, give it a listen: open.spotify.com/show/5UEZYYC...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
People don’t hate AI art because of copyright.
They hate it because it threatens one of our oldest signals of humanness.
I talk about this in the first episode of my podcast—Precipice Signals.
If that idea intrigues you, give it a listen: open.spotify.com/show/5UEZYYC...
They hate it because it threatens one of our oldest signals of humanness.
I talk about this in the first episode of my podcast—Precipice Signals.
If that idea intrigues you, give it a listen: open.spotify.com/show/5UEZYYC...
The spectrum’s enormous diversity probably is because of natural human diversity? It’s time we stopped treating it as a disorder for everyone on the spectrum: not all brains are wired the same, and not everything needs to be a label.
What if autism is not a single condition, but several? Research into the spectrum’s enormous diversity could help lead to better treatments and interventions
Why autism should not be treated as a single condition
A better understanding of its biology will lead to better interventions
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December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The spectrum’s enormous diversity probably is because of natural human diversity? It’s time we stopped treating it as a disorder for everyone on the spectrum: not all brains are wired the same, and not everything needs to be a label.
Google’s apparent turn toward orbit to sustain AI’s growing appetite for energy feels like a philosophical confession: we would rather expand outward than slow down.
Space, once imagined as the realm of infinity, is now showing signs of finitude.
Space, once imagined as the realm of infinity, is now showing signs of finitude.
December 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Google’s apparent turn toward orbit to sustain AI’s growing appetite for energy feels like a philosophical confession: we would rather expand outward than slow down.
Space, once imagined as the realm of infinity, is now showing signs of finitude.
Space, once imagined as the realm of infinity, is now showing signs of finitude.
The uncomfortable truth is this: if most people are no longer economically necessary, income can no longer be justified purely through productivity without producing mass exclusion.
The technical problem of automation is solvable. The moral, political problem of who gets to live securely is not.
The technical problem of automation is solvable. The moral, political problem of who gets to live securely is not.
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The uncomfortable truth is this: if most people are no longer economically necessary, income can no longer be justified purely through productivity without producing mass exclusion.
The technical problem of automation is solvable. The moral, political problem of who gets to live securely is not.
The technical problem of automation is solvable. The moral, political problem of who gets to live securely is not.
Everyone feels something is off—rent, climate, wages, elections—but the conversation keeps sliding to personalities and culture wars. Structural power hides in complexity, media incentives reward noise, and daily survival drains the brain for systems thinking. The silence is functional.
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Everyone feels something is off—rent, climate, wages, elections—but the conversation keeps sliding to personalities and culture wars. Structural power hides in complexity, media incentives reward noise, and daily survival drains the brain for systems thinking. The silence is functional.
3/ Joseph Stiglitz put it plainly: “We have a political system increasingly dominated by money.” Elections remain—but sovereignty shrinks. Politics hasn’t vanished. It’s been repurposed into market management.
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
3/ Joseph Stiglitz put it plainly: “We have a political system increasingly dominated by money.” Elections remain—but sovereignty shrinks. Politics hasn’t vanished. It’s been repurposed into market management.
2/ In the EU alone, ~25,000 lobbyists shape policy before the public enters the room. Corporate interests dwarf civil society. Add the revolving door between regulators and industry, and what looks like corruption is simply system design.
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
2/ In the EU alone, ~25,000 lobbyists shape policy before the public enters the room. Corporate interests dwarf civil society. Add the revolving door between regulators and industry, and what looks like corruption is simply system design.
When policymaking is structurally tilted toward capital, public interest doesn’t disappear—but it consistently loses leverage, until it quietly disappears.
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When policymaking is structurally tilted toward capital, public interest doesn’t disappear—but it consistently loses leverage, until it quietly disappears.
Politics runs on short cycles, capital chases short-term returns, and many economic models still assume stability in a world of compounding shocks. Climate, AI, and inequality all break those assumptions. We don’t fail from ignorance. We fail from misaligned time horizons, incentives, and reality.
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Politics runs on short cycles, capital chases short-term returns, and many economic models still assume stability in a world of compounding shocks. Climate, AI, and inequality all break those assumptions. We don’t fail from ignorance. We fail from misaligned time horizons, incentives, and reality.
AI can now predict floods, disease spread, and infrastructure failure—but policy still lags behind clear warnings. The crisis isn’t technological. It’s structural. Our economic and political systems reward short-term profit and speed while our real risks unfold on long time horizons.
December 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
AI can now predict floods, disease spread, and infrastructure failure—but policy still lags behind clear warnings. The crisis isn’t technological. It’s structural. Our economic and political systems reward short-term profit and speed while our real risks unfold on long time horizons.
2/ Technology can predict and optimize, but it can’t replace human judgment, lived experience, or moral clarity. The real limit isn’t computing power. It’s what we choose to imagine—and what we choose to value.
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
2/ Technology can predict and optimize, but it can’t replace human judgment, lived experience, or moral clarity. The real limit isn’t computing power. It’s what we choose to imagine—and what we choose to value.
1/ The biggest problems of our time don’t exist because we lack resources—they exist because we lack imagination and foresight. We still run the world on outdated economic models built for profit, not collective survival.
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
1/ The biggest problems of our time don’t exist because we lack resources—they exist because we lack imagination and foresight. We still run the world on outdated economic models built for profit, not collective survival.
I just realised being sleep deprived makes you hilarious.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I just realised being sleep deprived makes you hilarious.
Most of Gen Z is perpetually exhausted. We’ve seen too much for too long, and everything seems beyond repair.
Its catastrophic to the point that we’ve become completely desensitised to everything.
Its catastrophic to the point that we’ve become completely desensitised to everything.
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Most of Gen Z is perpetually exhausted. We’ve seen too much for too long, and everything seems beyond repair.
Its catastrophic to the point that we’ve become completely desensitised to everything.
Its catastrophic to the point that we’ve become completely desensitised to everything.
We’re standing on the edge of a cultural revolution: we’ve seen the harms of social media and learnt our lessons.
Our collective consciousness now needs shift towards demanding regulation.
Our collective consciousness now needs shift towards demanding regulation.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We’re standing on the edge of a cultural revolution: we’ve seen the harms of social media and learnt our lessons.
Our collective consciousness now needs shift towards demanding regulation.
Our collective consciousness now needs shift towards demanding regulation.
As digital ai art sweeps through the internet, the strongest act of rebellion is creating. And encouraging others to create.
Let’s bring back slow, imperfect art which leaves a lasting emotional imprint-something that lingers…
Let’s bring back slow, imperfect art which leaves a lasting emotional imprint-something that lingers…
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
As digital ai art sweeps through the internet, the strongest act of rebellion is creating. And encouraging others to create.
Let’s bring back slow, imperfect art which leaves a lasting emotional imprint-something that lingers…
Let’s bring back slow, imperfect art which leaves a lasting emotional imprint-something that lingers…
The attention economy will continue to reward superficial, emotionally charged posts because it sees the highest amount of engagement.
If we truly want to empower ourselves; our focus should be on engaging with content that has depth. Otherwise no amount of alternative apps are going to work.
If we truly want to empower ourselves; our focus should be on engaging with content that has depth. Otherwise no amount of alternative apps are going to work.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The attention economy will continue to reward superficial, emotionally charged posts because it sees the highest amount of engagement.
If we truly want to empower ourselves; our focus should be on engaging with content that has depth. Otherwise no amount of alternative apps are going to work.
If we truly want to empower ourselves; our focus should be on engaging with content that has depth. Otherwise no amount of alternative apps are going to work.