Rakshit Ranjan

I work on product commercialisation at Mastercard and write essays on AI, how the world works, and lived experiences.

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01
The capital theory of AI
On scaling laws and its implications.
02
On the meaning of life
A working answer to why are we here.
03
Some reflections on 2025
The year of becoming a husband.
04
Escape
A short poem on blissful transcendence, written by the holy water.
05
Linear and non-linear systems
Why most things in life don't move in straight lines.

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Most AI companies have near-identical websites. The dark theme with gradient colours, sans-serif fonts like Inter and Roboto, the Bento grid layout, and strikingly similar and bland copy on how they are research labs pushing the frontiers of human intelligence. When I ...

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