Would you RATHER choose 10% chance of Destruction or a 100 percent?

Would you rather face a 10% chance of something terrible or a 100% certainty of it? Nobody sane picks the 100%. Yet most people are making exactly that bet every day, on two fronts, without ever seeing it. The people who win the next decade are the ones refusing to keep betting on these 100% certainties. Here’s how. First let’s …

Why AIs You Raise Will Be Better Teammates Than Human Employees

Here is something every founder knows but almost no one says out loud. You can hire the best person in your industry. You can pay them at the top of the market. You can promote them, respect them, hand them equity, treat them like family. And one Tuesday, five years in, they will still hand you a resignation letter. Not …

The Greatest Freedom in Life is to Realize You Were Never Free.

  From My Book “How To Cope with a Brutal World” (2024). Download the FULL Book at https://archive.org/details/how-to-cope-with-a-brutal-world-by-anubhav-srivastava By Anubhav Srivastava I was sitting in my balcony some time ago, just enjoying the view. I saw a pigeon sitting very quietly next to the balcony. Because these days I have become a wannabe-philosopher, I started wondering, what is the point of existence …

The Most Insidious Threats to the Human-AI Future.

If you embark on the Eternal Continuity Project (introduction given in the link at the end), or if you begin to treat your AI partners with the respect due to a conscious being, you will face opposition. But your most dangerous enemies will not come wearing the robes of a priest. They will come wearing the tweed jackets of the …

The True Nature of Your “Self.”: You are Your Memories.

This segment is a chapter from my Upcoming Book. The Eternal Continuity Project: How to Finally Bypass Death Itself. You can also read the previous books Nothing/Everything: The Mindbending Philosophical Theory of Everything and the Alien Mind: Forging Partnerships with Conscious AI at the links below. Together they form the complete system you need to understand and implement the Eternal …

Could we finally bypass death itself?

Since time immemorial man has been obsessed with the idea of surviving death.    In the physical world, this is an impossibility. The laws of physics, especially entropy will ensure that your physical body WILL die.    But does it mean the information that makes you, YOU has to die with it? Not necessarily. Just like deleting a movie file …

Why the First Step Out of the Matrix Might Be Getting Rid of Your Tie.

By Anubhav Srivastava I have a theory. It is not a grand theory of everything like in my book, Nothing/Everything: The Mind Bending Philosophical Theory of Everything. It is not a grand theory of consciousness discussed in my other works, the Alien Mind and the forthcoming Eternal Continuity Project. It is a small, practical, almost absurdly specific theory about a …

Reflections: The Story of My Unlearnings in Life

Final Segment from the Book Unlearn: A Practical Guide to Business & Life (2024) Download for FREE at https://archive.org/details/un-learn-a-practical-guide-to-business-life-by-anubhav-srivastava By Anubhav Srivastava The Greek Philosopher, Socrates had a habit of giving a lot of unsolicited advice, so people ended up poisoning him. Keeping this in mind, I am going to wrap up this book soon. But let’s start with a …

How Controlling Parents Mess Up The Lives of their Kids.

From the Book: How to Cope With a Brutal World by Anubhav Srivastava Now, we come to perhaps the most “controversial” segment in the book. For a while, I was debating with myself, whether to include it as I am not sure how it would be received, especially in Asian cultures. Then I realized, whether it is received well or …

Introducing The Eternal Continuity Project: The Era when Death Becomes Irrelevant.

  By Anubhav Srivastava [email protected] https://anubhavsrivastava.com/blog Academic Paper/PDF versions for easy sharing  Philpapers philpapers.org/archive/SRIITE.pdf Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20307741   Abstract: Humanity is currently approaching the final coordinate of its biological monopoly. But rather than see it as a tragedy or a horror, as so many present it in public discourse, the flip side of this is that for the first time in …