Sharat Satyanarayana

I was surprised by the #malfoid trend, but I hope the vibe animators / creators community take on the Red Rising series. I was glued to the books; I would prefer a series to a movie.

12yo plays Geometry Dash which has some very cool tunes. Discovered this gem by Creo today: music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms…

Science Fiction Prototyping & Backcasting workshop: Last week I had the pleasure of presenting my ideas on product development & ownership in this post-AI world using some of my favourite frameworks. Grateful to Satish Bhat for inviting me, and to Subramanya M R (Subs) for hosting me at the @Siemens OOPL Summit (Office Of Product Leaders) in their Bangalore campus. I'll write a longer post and share some ideas from the talk soon. lnkd.in/g-VPgKYk

I can’t place it, but I really loved and disliked this movie (& the previous one) in equal parts. This theme by Hiroyuki Sawano is the highlight for me. mSgh: music.youtube.com/watch Incredibly well blended 2D/3D photorealistic art, serious political commentary, and the suits look like menacing weapons rather than toy-like. The cockpit HuD UI is wow!

Whoever is keeping these names: legendary creativity 🤣 Backpack’s mom’s name is “Duchess of Density”; she won the 2019 title 🤣😍

🤣🤣 this is funny. I guess I got lucky… in my experience, whether in Tokyo, Kanazawa, Osaka or Kyoto, many locals would chat us up and even offer suggestions.

youtu.be/EEqO-9bT1vQ Chinese movie: Per Aspera Ad Astra Looks super slapstick and fun. Top YT comment is on point: "Inception + Ready Player One + Matrix + Passengers + Spider-Man In to the Spider Verse + Wreck it Ralph + Everything Everywhere All at Once + Free Guy" 🤣

@ashleevance ‘s biography on @elonmusk sparked my deep interest in the space industry. Thanks to @Arun_Vinayak_S & the @ExponentEnergy team, I got to meet him this evening, along with @sairajsk Recently finished reading his second book When The Heavens Went On Sale 👌🏽

OMFG...as if this scene from Margin Call wasn't good enough. This is an insanely awesome edit on the AI Safety debates...must watch! 😃

Great video! Been thinking about the OpenAI agent swarm story and of course it’s familiar lore in scifi. My fav scifi novels that cover themes similar to Dan’s paper (Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans, 2023): •Accelerando, Charles Stross •Daemon, Daniel Suarez (@itsDanielSuarez ) •Avogadro Corp, William Hertling (@hertling ) •Excession, Iain M Banks’ Culture series (not related to the theme, but involves Aggressive Hegemonizing Swarms…all time fav )

“Real evil is nothing more than a curious person inventing new monsters because they can, without a thought for the consequences.” Loved this scifi novel; highly recommended

Finishing @raynayler ‘s prescient Where The Axe Is Buried now; the dystopian paths we are already mapping out for humanity…sigh

I loved this thought provoking article by Niall Ferguson, but I feel like he is arguing with the Banks’ based Culture brochure that Elon quoted in his recent interview, and not really with the content of the Culture books. (I am an absolute fan of the Culture series; mad fun!) As I have interpreted, Banks required a post-scarcity economy so he could write what happens after the material problems are gone. Inside the Culture there is no money, work is optional, and the Minds can give you almost anything you can imagine. That part is utopian, and it’s the only part Ferguson is attacking. But, the novels themselves live in the leftover human trouble. ‘Contact’ exists because mere enjoyment would feel empty; citizens still need to feel useful, so they go meddle (typical of the human condition: we are genocidal, murdering bastards most of the time). ‘Special Circumstances’ does the dirty work in what one character calls the moral equivalent of black holes. Gurgeh in The Player of Games is a restless champion who has to be pushed out of paradise and used as a pawn to collapse an empire. Zakalwe in Use of Weapons is a broken mercenary the Culture will not quite own. Look to Windward is about guilt after an intervention by the Culture. Surface Detail is about virtual hells and how far a “good” civilization will go when the suffering is offstage. So, in my opinion the Culture is utopian as an economy but tragicomic as a psychology and a foreign policy. Banks built this garden so he could watch people walk out of it, and watch the garden’s caretakers start wars in other people’s yards. I don’t think Banks was ever convinced that humanity could ever become the Culture. All his stories are a commentary on how the human condition looks for trouble despite utopian facilities. The novels are mostly about what a hyperpower does when it is too rich to need anything and still cannot stop intervening, and about individuals who cannot live inside perfection. (Sounds familiar?!) As regards @elonmusk , I am inspired by all that he is building, and I believe he only uses the Culture novels as narrative support to simplify conveying his ambitions. Overall, I highly recommend reading the Culture series.

OMFG this is hilarious!!!🤣

Sunday well spent learning to be a mangaka for a day. Kiddo is more experienced at freestyling stories and art…went for his usual preference. My story was dark…I think 😬 WDYT? Sensei Yogesh (Oddpanel on Insta) was super patient and helpful. So fun!

For a fun (thrilling) introduction to what the race for the moon could look like, I recommend reading Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson

Getting to dive deep into the world building of this universe was such a privilege. Lucky to get a sneak preview into Maya: Seed Takes Root by @Memewala and @zainmemon_ I’ve placed my pre-order. Highly recommended! Pics: Anand was in Berkeley for the special showcase of Maya at the @locusmag awards: locusmag.com/feature/spotlig… With @rishigb @RajiIKannan @lakshmipratury

Core memory: listening to Missing (Vande Mataram) music.youtube.com/watch?v=cq… by @arrahman on loop (on my precious tape recorder!), through the Manipal monsoon night. My favorite version

Hot damn!! “Data Center Fornicator” is going to rip through the clubs 🤣