Rajat Singh
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Local maxima and the Making of a Complete Human
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Happiness has a direct correlation to how useful you can be to the world. When put like this, it sounds a little pessimistic. Although conclusions, in general, are an outcome of a long-running process, they have optimized answers. Optimization, in general, is a little ruthless. You don't make stuff work, that's more of a precursor to it. You make stuff elegant, make it work beautifully. Beautiful in the sense that it feels properly engineered, and the outcomes appear magical.

The problem with magical outcomes is that there is no compromise on the inputs. The empathy for failed inputs can never make it to the end of the process, it dies somewhere near the local maxima. Well, either it dies, or the process has to settle for a sub-optimal peak surrounded by valleys.

I think I have pretty much hypothesized that the consumption of the human mind while serving something that serves a greater purpose than itself, or, let's say, something complementary to itself, is key to a 7-hour sleep. On a side note, I think happiness also has a direct correlation to good sleep, at least adulthood tends to convey this.

Complementary skills, I don't want to say skills, but things which are complementary in nature, tend to do well, generally as a rule more than an exception. I have started to develop this strange love for the idea of a complete human being. Although my actions still tend toward the extremities, I still put a lot of hours into excellence. But, I would like to dabble a little at the edges, where I attempt multiple things.

I have started to see things as a summation of one another rather than a negation. For a very long time, it used to be the opposite. My processes were single-objective. They would take all the inputs and create that single outcome. It would look magical on the surface, but it was more of a brute-force solution, or rather, the objective function itself had a dangerous drawback, being singular in its intent.


What I wanted to say:
I think I ended up having conflicting ideas and wasn't able to resolve them, here.

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