Vimoh

This is a re-upload of a podcast recorded with guest Shahbaz Ansar in 2022. Due to a tech issue exacerbated by my own human stupidity, many episodes of the podcast were lost. I am re-uploading some of them now.

In this episode, Shahbaz Ansar discusses his work, his views on atheism, and the difficultirs that visit him because he comes from a Muslim background. We also discuss the matter of religious privilege, media, politics, and j...

This is a re-upload of the conversation I had with magician Nakul Shenoy in 2022. Many episodes of this show were lost because of a technical error recently. I am re-uploading some of them once more because they were important conversations.

In this episode, I discuss with Nakul Shenoy topics like hypnosis, mind-reading, past-llfe regression therapy and the scam that is third-eye activation. We also discussed the importance of criti...

This episode is a re-upload. Some time last year, a technical malfunction made me lose a bunch of episodes. I am bringing some of the lost episodes back, because they are valuable.

One of these conversations was with Arpit Dwivedi, well-known internet atheist and YouTuber. In this conversation that happened live on YouTube, we discuss Arpit Dwivedi's work, history, and approach towards solving social problems.

You can watch Arpit's ...

I answer questions from readers and listeners about atheism, artificial intelligence, my creative projects, and society in general to the best of my ability.

Links to resources mentioned in the episode

My FAQ page containing answers to frequently asked questions - I get a lot of questions and many of these are often from people who are not aware that I have answered their question on multiple occasions before. So this page is going t...

As I notice more and more people use chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as replacements for human companionship, I was struck by the hollowness that this new trend is. ChatGPT is not only not anyones friend (except perhaps Sam Altman's), it cannot be anyone's friend. There is nothing there to be friends with. No one is actually answering questions, no one is giving advice. There is no one there.

I am reminded of Blade Runner 2049, a w...

I keep hearing the same few points from AI enthusiasts about AI use for creative work. One of these of course is that AI does exactly what the human mind does. This is false, along with a lot of other things that have become integral parts of the ongoing AI hype cycle. In this episode, I break down my point of view on the matter and also, in the second part of the episode, answer some of the comments I received on the first half.

I decided to make a short episode about the underlying scamminess of the idea that AI tools are essentially time-saving. This is doubly true for the office-goer being exploited by corporations. Because at the end of the day, no worker gains anything by saving time. If one becomes capable of doing a day's work in an hour, they don't get the rest of the day off. In fact, it probably means the exact opposite - that they will be expect...

In 1928, EM Forster published a short story called The Machine Stops. It featured a future where humankind survives underground and at the mercy of a system known simply as 'The Machine'. In this world, humans have outsourced all essential tasks, including the task of maintaining and repairing the machine, to the Machine.

And then one day, as the title says, the Machine stops, and a society that has grown fully reliant on it, meets ...

There are two types of writers. There are plotters and there are pantsers.

Pantsers are people who pull people's pants down and plotters are people who have been wronged by pantsers and they plot their death. I am kidding of course and that's kind of the point because when I started this video I was going to say something else which should tell you everything you need to know about my writing style. I am a pantser and I make it soun...

Some months ago, Meta announced that it intends to fill Instagram with slop. This would include fake AI-generated video content from fake AI-generated creators. Fake AI-generated commenters would then leave fake AI-generated feedback on these posts and quite possibly, even have a back-and-forth with other fake AI-generated bots like them.

This isn’t decorative use of AI for the benefit of people. This isn’t a tool to enrich the ...

Despite what you may have heard from the hype mill, writing with AI may not be a good thing for you, especially if you are a student or a beginner writer. If you write with AI, you open yourself up to professional and personal dangers that may have long-term impact on your career and perhaps even on your ability to give expression to your ideas and thoughts.

In this article, I am going to give you a complete breakdown of why wri...

Every month, there is news of some Indian YouTuber losing their channel to motivated copyright strikes, quite possibly made due to political reasons. I have long been a proponent of content channel diversification by creators. Open protocols like RSS feeds (used for podcasts and blogs alike) as well as email (used for newsletters) are the way out. Creators need to understand that at the end of the day, their channels belong to YouT...

I was told that there needs to be a trailer for my podcast. So here it is, telling you that this show is about the intersection of tech and society. Because they do intersect a lot, don't they? Our personal and work lives are steeped in tech, our policies have a lot to do with tech. Governments are using gen-AI to write laws. Companies are firing employees to replace them with chatbots. We have to move past the phase where 'tech ch...

In our time, political propaganda and conspiracy theories are kissing cousins. One opens the gates and the other drags you in. The way they do this is not very imaginative and so it is possible to squitn and see how the process works.

Below is a full transcript of the episode.

Hi, and welcome to another video on this channel.

My name is Vimoh and here we talk about atheism, Indian culture, popular misinformation, that sort of stuff. A...

Hello friends.

After a long time, there is a writing-related video. I thought I would occasionally make a video about writing because, you know, I am writing. This channel is a channel by a writer, so there should at least be some writing-related content on it.

I put out a post in my posts tab—it used to be called a community tab, and things are confusing now. In the posts tab, you will find a post where I have asked people to send m...

How to Lose Followers — And Why You Should

We don’t often talk about losing followers — not seriously anyway. Usually, when someone mentions it, they’re being ironic or sarcastic. They’re saying, “Don’t do this, or you’ll lose followers.” But today, I mean it sincerely.

This episode is about how to lose followers — and why that might actually be a good thing.

Followers Change You

When you start creating content, you're doing it because...

Disclaimer: The following is a transcript of this video episode. It has been edited for grammar and clarity using an AI tool.

In India, we have this term called Godi Media, where a mainstream media outlet or a television channel or a newspaper, usually a Hindi newspaper (but English newspapers have also started doing this), has bent over backward to accommodate the needs of whoever is in power. This means that a politician, a minist...