Manav Rathi

@mnvr
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I like programming, writing, and making music
Websitehttps://mnvr.in
I think I know what emergence means now:
https://mnvr.in/2026/emergence
Emergence Saved Our Tofu | mnvr.in

I think I know what emergence means now: concretely, not as a stand-in for things we don't understand.

"Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

Came to me in a dream today. That the hidden CoTs of LLMs are not "thinking" or "reasoning", but the LLM dreaming.

#llm

I've decided to double down on em-dashes.

https://mnvr.in/2026/em-dashes

em-dashes | mnvr.in

I've decided to double down on em-dashes

The people against AI are asking the wrong questions. This is my attempt to get them to retest their priors. Maybe I'm being naive, but here goes.

https://mnvr.in/2026/the-important-questions

#AI #llm

The important questions | mnvr.in

The people against AI are asking the wrong questions

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥

— Gita 2.47

Action alone is your right, never the outcome. Outcomes arise from a wider causal field; you’re not the doer, nor may you attach yourself to inaction.

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818

I met a traveller from an antique land, who said "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things; the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"

"And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

We're all immortal now, whether we want to or not - https://mnvr.in/2026/immortal
Immortal now | mnvr.in

We're all immortal now, whether we want to or not

Love is a coordination mechanism