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Sympathy for Rapido

Jun 6, 2025 6 min read

From ‘Rapido draws flak for charging users extra for traffic delays, commuters term it ‘extortion’’, The Hindu, June 3, 2025: Ride-hailing platform Rapido is under fresh scrutiny from [Bengaluru] use…

So many cynical ads on TV

Nov 10, 2023 2 min read

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I wrote about cynical ads airing on Indian cable TV a while ago. Since then I've started to notice more such ads and thought it might be useful to maintain a running list. 1. Rapido – Don't…

A future for driverless cars, from a limbo between trolley problems and autopilots

Mar 18, 2015 5 min read

Uncategorized AI autopilots driverless cars epistemology Frankenstein complex human safety machine failure Nick Bostrom nuclear power plants safety redundancy superintelligence trolley problem Uber

By Anuj Srivas and Vasudevan Mukunth What’s the deal with everyone getting worried about artificial intelligence? It’s all the Silicon Valley elite seem willing to be apprehensive about, and Oxford…