Anoop Kumar's Clarity

Note : There are soldiers, doctors, and teachers who are already heroes, role models and idols and therefore not included in the list. 

AI-powered robots (AIPRs) will be able to carry out medical surgeries, build bridges, buildings and roads, argue in a court of law, drive cars, trucks, and other vehicles, fly planes, code software, sell goods in a store, serve in a restaurant, manufacture goods, protect borders, fight wars, maintain law and order, write books, paint, sing, dance, act, travel, forecast weather, clean toilets, fix drainage, shoot movies, win debates, play sports, cook food, deliver pizzas, say jokes, and do everything else that we currently consider as a job. It looks like it is inevitable that we will reach a situation where AIPRs will do all of these more efficiently than humans. It looks like it's no longer a question of "if" but "when".   Some of the things that AIPRs cannot do, for example, are to feel, meditate, pray, bless, enjoy, etc. They can act as if they feel but actually they won't feel. They will not have any morality. Without morality they can be highly destruc...

I believe that it is better to remain uneducated than having a false sense of being educated. We are not even able to answer some of the most fundamental questions about life after being educated for over 18 to 22 years. As we are already the so-called educated, the best we can do now is to be aware that there is a lot to know and what we know is nothing compared to what is there to know.

I wonder who the hell came up with the concept of white people and black people and why. Everything about it is wrong. Firstly, it doesn't make logical sense because the people referred to as blacks are not black in colour and people referred to as whites are not white in colour, see the attached image below, unless you are colour blind you will notice that these colours do not match in anyway. Second, why should someone be referred as a colour? Third, when there is a perceived notion about risk, danger, trouble and other negative aspects associated with darkness (no light) why should people be referred as dark or black? That already creates a wrong perception in people from a young age which then becomes difficult to get rid of. I know some Indians who are scared of so-called blacks even though they never experienced any trouble from them. I wish and hope that the usage of colour to refer to people will be banned. If you want to differentiate people (not discriminate) based on co...

I wonder if anyone is carrying out an unbiased and independent research on the percentage of C-section deliveries during the lockdown period in India and similar countries which had high % of C-section deliveries. I think it will be less than half of what it used to be before lockdown if my thought process is correct that during this lockdown period women are not being forced by doctors to undergo C-section to avoid longer stay at hospitals. Before lockdown, in southern states of India the % of C-section deliveries had reached over 35%. If there is considerable decrease in C-section deliveries during lockdown period (23 March to now) compared to before lockdown then it would be evident that most C-sections were done for non-health related purposes. Why this research or investigation is important? This is a unique period. This period of lockdown was not planned, not known and therefore no preparations done by anyone. Delivery date cannot be postponed till lockdown is over unlike othe...

I think that in the future we will have to go through virus detectors at airports similar to going through metal detectors and scanners for liquids. For all posts related to COVID-19 :  https://www.akclarity.com/search/label/COVID-19

Medicine is me di sin, that means, it's a reminder that I am doing to me (myself) two sins. 1. When I didn't take care of my body to ensure that it is in good condition. 2. Harming it even more in the long run by popping a tablet for short-term benefits.  As someone said prevention is better than cure. Prevent yourself from getting sick. 

Can you imagine private companies securing our borders instead of our national defence services (Army, Navy, Airforce , BSF, etc)? Defence is a necessity for a country to function.  Defence personnel protect our country and our people. Defence services don't discriminate between rich and poor, when they protect the country they protect it for all of us.  Now compare this with medical services. Medical services are also a necessity and not a luxury. Medical services also save lives, day in and day out doctors and nurses are treating people, caring for people and extending lives and saving lives. Of course like in any other field, in the medical field too there are those bad apples, who cheat patients, who discriminate between those who can afford and those who can't, who force patients through unnecessary expensive treatments to increase their or their hospital's profit or to meet their monthly targets. But essentially the role of medical services is to save lives a...

In this generation, they shouldn't, but if someone asks you what caste you belong to, proudly tell them your caste, yes, if you are an IT professional then your caste is IT professional, if you are an entrepreneur then your caste is Entrepreneur, if you are a banker then your caste is Banker, if you are a journalist then your caste is Journalist, if you are a labourer then your caste is Labourer, etc as simple as that, your profession is your caste .  It's so stupid and foolish to still hold on to a system that was created for a different era hundreds of yeas ago. Caste was used for differentiation and not for discrimination purposes. People misused it, just like how most of the things are misused, for example see Facebook and Whatsapp, how much of misuse. Doctors are different from Engineers, Engineers are different from Lawyers, Lawyers are different from Teachers, this differentiation is a necessity for all of our ease of living.  Don't turn differentiation to dis...

In a computer or a phone or any other device you can store a photo or a video or a file as many times as the storage capacity permits. You can either store it with different names or store with the same filename in different folders. Have you realized that this is not the case with our memory? We can store it only once. I haven't found a way where we can store it more than once. Imagine a vacation photo, can you have multiple copies of that in your mind? Another interesting part of human mind is that the storage is limitless, we can store as much as we want. 

In art, topic of money comes last and money may come, and it could happen that the artist makes a lot of money in the end if the art is liked. In commerce topic of money comes first whether it actually comes is another question, for example a movie could be made thinking that it would bring 3 times or 4 times of the budget but it could fail miserably. In art, there is no concept of failing. In art, you only fail if you don't try.

How to do a good presentation? The answer is easy but difficult to apply. It is easy because all that we need to do is to place ourselves in the audiences' shoes and think which style of presentation we would like. It is difficult to apply because when we consider ourselves as the audience we still think from our biased perspective and not from an unbiased audience perspective.

There is no point in comparing one's life with another's. For example, let's say you have high expectations from yourself, for a given task, you may rate yourself as 5 out of 10 because you think you could have done better and you believe you can do better because you have the ability. However, someone who doesn't have high expectations of himself might rate himself 8 and above. Now if we were to compare just based on the self assessed ratings, your rating will look bad even if the other person has not performed better than you. So, it is important to know there is no way we can compare our life with someone else.  Each life is different. Each life wants different things and has different level of experience requirement.

When it comes to salary expectations or pay raise discussions I think it is important to ask for what you think you deserve even if it looks like it is asking for more. If it is turned down you know that you need to work harder to get there, if it's accepted then you got what you wanted and you can work harder to ask for more again the next time. So irrespective of which way it goes it will lead to positive results in the long run. 

If you are watching a movie in a video streamer like YouTube and an Ad interrupts the movie, what do you do? you skip Ad and focus back on the movie or you let the Ad play and then continue watching the movie, in any case you try not to miss the movie. In movie called life several Ads (read distractions) will pop from nowhere, it is for us to skip those and focus back on life. Skip ad, don't miss the movie.  

Is there really a winner and loser in an election?  When election results are out, I wonder why a lot of people, including the media, think that a politician has won an election and others have lost. The so-called winner has only got elected as a representative of the people to carry out their work and others didn't get elected for carrying out the work. Where does the concept of winning and losing come in? It is not a race or competition. Isn't it similar to 10 people apply for a job? where 1 gets selected and others are not. We don't call the guy who got the job as winner and others as losers. The one who was selected was found most suitable for that particular job in that given situation. I understand there is difference between selection and election, however there is similarity, in both cases there is choosing somebody to do the job.  And one more point,  shouldn't the candidates tell the people, "if you need me to work for you, elect me, if you nee...

I wonder how anyone can be proud of something that they have not achieved consciously. For example, people claim that they are proud of their region, religion, nationality, language etc, basically any inherited identity.  The questions I have are, did you choose to be born in a certain family / region or nation? What is your achievement / contribution in that? Nothing, right? Then why are you proud of something that you had nothing to contribute? If someone decided to become a doctor, and then works for it and becomes a doctor, he/she can be proud of achieving that.