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Profiling: An Evolutionary Shortcut or a Moral Dead End?

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  Copyright: Sanjay Basu Mirror Neurons, Mirror Minds — Week 2 “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Plato “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou A Thought You Don’t Want to Admit We all profile. That’s not an accusation. It’s biology. It’s survival. Your brain does it before you even know you’ve had a thought. Someone steps into the elevator and you scan height, clothing, body language, tone of voice, all in a fraction of a second. It’s not malice. It’s pattern recognition. A vestige of the days when mistaking a rustling bush for wind instead of a predator meant you didn’t live to pass on your DNA. The speed at which this happens is staggering. Research from Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov found that we form judgments about trustworthiness in as little as 100 milliseconds, faster than a blink. These split-second assessments influence everything from who we sit...
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ChatGPT Just Pulled the Rug Out from under n8n, Make, and Zapier

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  Copyright: Sanjay Basu Here’s Why AgentKit Kills the Middleman A single update just vaporized an entire swath of startups. Zapier, Make, n8n. All the automation glue tools you once trusted, got a black swan-sized threat when OpenAI dropped AgentKit. Overnight, the promise of drag-and-drop agent creation turned from a clever thought exercise into a working, production-grade system. The era of stitching APIs by hand feels suddenly archaic. Yes, I’m claiming that ChatGPT just made startups obsolete. Or, at least, drastically reshaped which ones survive. My opinion, of course! The timing is uncanny. We’ve long lived in an era of “no-code” and “low-code” optimism. Anyone can build your integration, pipeline, or workflow without touching lines of code. Tools like Zapier, Integromat (now Make), and n8n democratized automating tasks. They bridged silos, mapped data flows, and let you chain triggers and actions across apps. But they were never built for the era of autonomous, agentic AI. ...
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Which Is Worse, Evil or Stupidity?

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  Copyright: Sanjay Basu Mirror Neurons, Mirror Minds, Week 1 “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.” — Friedrich Schiller Let me ask you something slightly uncomfortable. If you had to pick one, evil or stupidity, to disappear from the face of the Earth, which would you choose? Take a moment. Really think about it. One causes wars. The other gets people to vote for them. Evil is seductive, deliberate, occasionally well-dressed. Stupidity is insidious, accidental, and wears a name badge at work. The more you sit with it, the less obvious the answer becomes. And the more uncomfortable it feels. That’s precisely where I want to take you today. The Historical Weight of This Question This isn’t a new philosophical dilemma. Thinkers have wrestled with this choice for millennia, though they rarely framed it so starkly. Socrates famously argued that no one does wrong willingly, that all evil stems from ignorance, making stupidity the root of all harm. But then ...
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