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him with a little smile on his face, this was one of those rare moments when this man is
arrogant and takes pride in his habits. “These norms were made for our fathers, we’re
different, we have different resources, we live in a different world, we like different things,
we have different issues, and we have different cultural values. You can’t solve our problems
with their approach. We’re not in any absolute sense better, but only different from them. It’s
not to understand my choices if you’re rational enough.

This has got nothing to do with courage or just a will to be a rebel for the sake of it. I see an
obvious thing, and then I assume that it’s the right thing to do and I argue for it with all the
biases inside my head. I take the whole argument apart this way, but only from the positive
side. Then I do the opposite, I assume that it’s obviously the wrong thing to do and then I
argue against it with all of society’s biases. Such exercises generally lead to the conclusion
that it is, in fact, the obvious thing to do. And then I just go forward and do it. Sometimes
people call it creativity, get enraged by the amount of courage it takes to do such a thing, or
just dismiss it as outright stupid. I’d say if you’re rational enough, you do not need courage,
or require much less of it. And then you stumble upon creativity as a matter of consequence.
It’s all a matter of setting your mind free of thinking from established rules. If you want to
make a car, you start thinking from fundamental principles: it has to have a place to sit, and it
has to take people from one place to the other. Forget the fact that it has to have 4 wheels and
a music system. And then you will come up with a thing that does what you need it to, and at
the same time has a hint of originality. This is how the first car came to be, and it was one of
the best original ideas.

Rahul gets annoyed by his repeated monologues and in a funny tone asks him to stop, to
which Harsh gives a loud laugh and then obeys. At this time, Rahul is pretty much confused
about his own outlook towards life and whether he needs to change it. Harsh has a habit of
making people go through that after his monologues. He has changed people’s lives with this
ability of his and is proud of that.

Out of confusion and desperation, and an inner temptation to hear one more never-ending
flurry of ideas, Rahul asks another question: “Given everything you said and all your
so-called ideas about exploring life, I find it hard to digest that you’ve been fixated on one
thing for the past year, for hours and hours every day. This is very unlike you, isn’t this
boring you already?”. Harsh gets excited again. He raises his eyebrows and makes a funny
expression, almost taunting Rahul, at the realization that he still wants more of his prolonged
dialogues. He goes on, “I do not know why you find this surprising, this is exactly what you
should expect from me. I spent a year doing everything before college so I can then find the
one thing as soon as possible once I
get to college. When I started working with Artificial Intelligence, I realised that there is
nothing worth doing more than this. This is the study of the mind, thoughts, reasoning, and
the quest to create the soul inside of a machine. This is the last invention we need to make,
and everything hence will be done for us, I do not know why anyone wouldn’t want to do
this. There are two factions in the working population: The Managers and the Makers. And I
never thought I’d want to be a Maker. It just happened that working with these computers
was so intellectually satisfying that I’d rather not involve myself in the untruthfulness and the
politics of a Managerial role. I’m after the truth, and you discover the truth when you make
things, when you see them from the inside, outside, over and above, and understand
everything that is in them. To make something really original, you must take everything that

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