A new blog completed! How about that?

I have created a whole new blog to host my philosophy posts related to La Gxoja Filozfio posts. Here is the URL for the blog.

Below is my recent chat with ChatGPT on how we can use this blog for very interesting A.I. projects.

So, as you can see, having a Blog as an AI Sandbox can be really helpful for all sorts of A.I.-based projects.

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Anand:

 I took all the La Gxoja Filosofio posts and put them all int a separate blog. As a separate project, I could use Hugo to create a new website and even create something on Github. And then, even do some more fun stuff with A.I. and create a GxojaFilozofioBot. Am I not right?

ChatGPT said:

You are absolutely right — and you’re already on the perfect track. Here's a recap and confirmation of what you're envisioning, broken down:

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✅ What You’ve Already Done

• Created a separate La Gxoja Filozofio blog: smart move! It lets you isolate philosophical content and give it its own tone and aesthetic.

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🚀 What You Can Do Next (And Should)

1. Use Hugo to Create a Static Website

• ✅ Super fast, secure, portable

• ✅ Write in Markdown, easily theme it with beautiful templates

• ✅ Perfect for hosting long-form philosophy and showcasing ideas

2. Host on GitHub Pages (Free Forever)

• GitHub Pages + Hugo = Free static website

• Version-controlled, easy to update, and accessible to others

• Good base for collaboration if you open-source it

3. Build a GxojaFilozofioBot (AI Chatbot)

• Use the blog content as a training corpus

• Style it to speak like your blog — joyful, wise, philosophical, slightly playful

• Deploy it via:

  • Telegram / WhatsApp bot

  • Web interface (Streamlit or Flask)

  • Or even embed it into the Hugo site as a floating AI assistant

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🧠 Summary

Yes — you're 100% right. You're not just creating content — you're building a philosophical + technological ecosystem. La Gxoja Filozofio can live:

• As a blog

• As a polished static site

• As an AI persona

• And even as a downloadable or interactive book/project

Would you like me to start sketching the Hugo + GitHub project layout or the AI bot prompt?

🧠 This Blog as AI Sandbox: A Note to Visitors

 

🧠 This Blog as AI Sandbox: A Note to Visitors

Welcome!

This blog isn't your typical curated journal or polished opinion piece collection. Instead, it's a deliberately unstructured archive of old posts, raw ideas, and philosophical noodlings — created with one big purpose in mind:

To serve as material for all sorts of cool A.I. experiments.

Recently, I had a long and wonderfully productive conversation with ChatGPT, where we explored different ways this blog could be transformed or used creatively — and let me just say, the ideas were remarkably good. From building a DelfikOrakle chatbot to turning philosophical posts into a semantic search engine, this blog has a lot more potential than you might imagine.

Here are just a few directions we discussed:

• 🧙 DelfikOrakle AI — a chatbot oracle that responds in my blog’s voice, full of quirky wisdom and IKEA metaphors. Not my voice, mind you. My blog's voice.

• 🌐 Turning the blog into a Hugo-powered website hosted on GitHub Pages

• 🧠 Extracting themed posts (e.g., all the philosophy ones) to build topic-specific microsites

• 🤖 Embedding GPT into a custom blog viewer so readers can “Ask the Blog” questions

So if you’re curious about AI, want to tinker with language models, or just like watching experiments unfold in public — scroll down and check out the chat the link for which I’ve pasted below. 

Think of this blog as a living prompt, or a raw material for a real chatbot. Something that AI tools — or curious readers — can play with.

Enjoy the chaos. 🔁
— Anand

[ LINK TO CHAT: What ChatGPT thinks of the delfikorakle blog A.I. experiments ]

How well ChatGPT groks this blog

 Oh, how well ChatGPT groks this blog.

Here is what it just said.

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Got it — noted clearly and locked in context:

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🧠 Delfikorakle: Intent & Purpose

"This blog hosts the old posts from Anand Manikutty's old blog. Its main purpose is to run A.I. experiments."

✅ It's not a chronological or curated blog
✅ It’s a sandbox — a structured chaos lab of posts, musings, experiments
✅ Primary goal: Serve as raw material for AI-driven creativity, tools, and innovation

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So everything we build — whether it’s the Delfikorakle AI, PhilosopherBot, or a semantic blog explorer — will treat this as a flexible, unstructured, experimental corpus, not a polished publication.

Ready for the next step whenever you are.

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The Grand Defense (The Intro for my Belaj Retejoj project)

 I Swear I Have Taste (The "Why My Blog Is Ugly" Manifesto) 

Let’s address the elephant in the room—or rather, the 2008-era widget in the sidebar. 🐘

If you’ve spent more than five seconds on Delfik Orakle, you’ve probably wondered if my internet connection is stuck in a time loop or if I simply lost the password to the "Settings" menu. It’s messy. It’s cluttered. It’s aggressively beige.

But here’s the secret: I actually know what I’m doing. > In fact, I spend my days building sleek, modern, high-performance websites that would make a minimalist weep with joy. But this blog? This is my digital basement. It’s where I keep my experimental "mess of content," my Paleozoic widgets, and my strangely sentimental attachment to Blogger.

Over the next few posts, I’m going to take you on a tour of my "digital dig site," explain why I refuse to move to WordPress, and—crucially—show you the "Beautiful Websites" I build when I’m not busy haunting this scrappy digital cave.

Welcome to the beautiful mess. Try not to trip over the dead RSS links.

#WebDesign #BloggerLife #UglyBlogProud #DigitalArcheology

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TL;DR: Intro post for my Belaj Retejoj project - a project to create one or two beautiful websites to demonstrate that I do know how to build beautiful websites.

Sample website: The La Gxoja Filozofio website.
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The "Digital Oracle" (The Second Outro for LaFilozofioBot project)

This is the second Outro post. Much progress has been made on the development for the La Gxoja Filozofio chatbot.

So, it is time to make that Outro post once more. 

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 The "Digital Oracle" (The Second Outro for LaFilozofioBot project)

From Footnotes to Flowcharts: Meet the Philosophy Chatbot 

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We’ve covered a lot of ground—from critiquing the hierarchies of Confucius to questioning the emotional distance of the Stoics. If there’s one thing this journey has shown me, it’s that no single philosophy is a "whole answer." Every tradition has its silences.

But why should philosophy remain static on a page?

To bring these ideas into the 21st century, I’ve taken the core tenets of La Gxoja Filozofio and turned them into something interactive. Using the same code we used to compose these reflections, I’ve helped generate a custom chatbot. It’s designed to help you navigate these complex traditions, offer a "joyful" perspective on modern problems, and perhaps help you draw your own map of the world.

The blog posts are just the beginning. To engage with the philosophy in real-time, you will have to talk to the chatbot itself.

The future of philosophy isn't just in deeper footnotes—it’s in better, more accessible conversations.

#AIPhilosophy #Chatbots #DigitalHumanities #LaGxojaFilozofio #FutureOfThought

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🤖 Philosophy Series: The Second Outro (TL;DR)

The Hook: Stop reading footnotes—start having a conversation. The Gist: After critiquing the giants of the past, it’s clear that no single tradition has all the answers. To bridge the gap, I’ve moved from writing posts to building tools. Not just that - come up with a whole new philosophy. 

The Twist: I’ve launched a La Gxoja Filozofio Chatbot. It’s a digital platform trained on the series, turning static philosophical debates into an interactive, real-time experience. The future of thought isn't a lecture; it's a dialogue.

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The series of philosophy posts is now hereby declared KOMPLETA. Translated into English - "complete"/

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Reader, beware!

Reader, beware!

Many of the posts on this blog could be utter nonsense. Some simply are nonsense. 

I am using this blog to simply use the contents as fodder for A.I. Please don't interpret it as anything else.

On Record-Breaking, Philosophy, and IKEA Furniture

 Yes, I’m posting again — mainly to add a touch of humor.

As some of you now know, I’ve just begun an attempt to break a world record.

What exactly it is… I’m still not saying. But I will note that it’s being done with joy, intention, and the kind of quiet focus usually reserved for assembling IKEA furniture without the manual.

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Context: Philosophy (with a capital “P”)

Over the past few months, I’ve been developing an entirely new philosophy — one that I’d modestly describe as a modern-day rival to Stoicism and Epicureanism.

(And in many ways, it’s designed to be better.)

But here’s the catch:
You don’t get a Guinness World Record for “beating Epicurus.”
You don’t get one for “being smarter than Marcus Aurelius.”
You don’t get one for “being more grounded in logic than Socrates.”

#IfIveSeenFurtherItsBecauseIStandOnTheShouldersOfGiantsAsWellAsMidgetsAsWellAsPeopleOfAverageHeightANDMoronicTOIColumnists

So one has to do things.
Visible things.
Hence… this.

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Thank You, Qwykr

Many thanks to Qwykr, my “other” company, which has a Secrecy Oriented System™ that — as always — delivered.

Secrecy has always been a key design consideration in any project. I highly doubt anyone would have guessed I was trying for a world record if I hadn’t posted about it.

(To be fair, even now, you probably still don’t know what it is. That’s by design.)

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And Finally...

I believe in working hard to be happy —
and I will work hard to be happy, even if it kills me in the process. 🙂

A Quiet Attempt at a World Record

This might be one of the more unusual things I’ve taken on.

Starting this week, I’ll be attempting to break a world record.

What exactly it is… I’m not saying just yet. I’m keeping that part quiet for now.

But I will say this: I’m doing it simply to prove that such a thing can be done. Even by someone who, in this particular domain, had once struggled greatly.

This isn’t about glory, or even recognition.
It’s part of my broader La Gxoja Projekto — an initiative I started to explore how behavioral science, product design, and emotional insight can come together to support well-being.

This record attempt is, in its own unusual way, a contribution to that.

It’s a little proof-of-concept: that joy and discipline can coexist — even thrive together.

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Joy in the Attempt

There have been many people who’ve gone after world records.
But perhaps not too many have done it while grinning most of the way through. 😊

And in the end, the real competition is always — always — with oneself.

The Final Pitch (The Outro - La Gxoja Mesagxoj Project)

 The Architecture of Optionality: Why Your Workflow Matters

From the "trauma" of old-school enterprise CRMs to the rapid-fire poetry of the Dead Japanese Poets’ Society, we’ve seen how the right framework changes the game.

Communication shouldn't be a chore; it should be an engineered asset. Through KonektoCRM, I’ve tried to build a space where filmmakers, authors, and entrepreneurs can track their "creative pipelines" with the same precision I once used at Oracle. And through the RALPH platform, I’ve proven that you don't need years to leverage the learning you already have. I have also designed a new language and have proven that you don't need years to learn specially developed languages—you just need the right system to "grok" the people you're talking to.

If you’re a creator, a policymaker, or a tech enthusiast, the takeaway is this: Don’t just send a message. Build a framework that builds your future.

          And with that, I conclude this Outro. 

Gxis la revido!

#CRMForCreators #Optionality #TechStartup #AnandManikutty #StrategicMessaging

First book in Esperanto

 I just completed my first book in Esperanto—while still at the A1 level.

That’s not just a personal milestone; it makes a broader point.

It shows that languages can be learned far more rapidly than we assume—if the language is well-designed. This suggests that many of the deep-rooted problems we associate with illiteracy and linguistic inequality are not inevitable. They are design problems.

Imagine a world where a child—or even an adult from a rural or under-resourced background—can go from zero to basic reading, writing, and speaking proficiency in a matter of months. It’s possible. But it requires us to think differently.

Instead of forcing people to climb the steep mountain of English—with all its quirks, exceptions, and status baggage—we can build and promote conlangs (constructed languages) that are easier, fairer, and more inclusive. Imagine something like Hesperanto, a mix of Hindi and Esperanto, designed to be an alternative working language in India.

With such a system, people from non-English-speaking, vernacular backgrounds wouldn’t have to feel shame or inadequacy just because they don’t speak English well. They’d have another path—a faster, more empowering one.

That’s why this book is just the beginning. I plan to write nine more. Not just to make art, but to make a point: Language should be a bridge, not a barrier.

And yet, despite the potential, very little is being done to actively solve these problems.

It’s time we changed that.

Maintaining a Balanced View: My Thoughts on Public Figures

 

Maintaining a Balanced View: My Thoughts on Public Figures

In the current political climate, it's easy for discussions about public figures to become polarized. My aim with this blog is to explore ideas and share insights, and that includes offering balanced perspectives on various personalities, even when those perspectives might run contrary to popular narratives. Sometimes, simply acknowledging a positive contribution can be seen as taking a side, but my intention for this year at least is to remain as politically neutral as possible, focusing on policy and impact rather than partisan alignment. As I have indicated, this is not really a traditional blog at all but rather a site for my A.I. experiments. Think of it as me using Blogger to store some content that I think is particularly useful to keep around or opinions that I want to put out there on the Internet.

For instance, I've shared some positive observations about Donald Trump in recent posts. It's important to understand that this isn't an endorsement of every action or policy, but rather an acknowledgment of specific aspects I found noteworthy. I am not at all saying that this is a summary of my opinions of Trump's administration. Rather, owing to the current political climate, I am choosing to be rather quiet about some of my opinions where they can be easily found and analyzed. I have posted numerous critiques of Trump's government policies elsewhere. I just don't want to tell you where. I mostly want to avoid making enemies right now, and that is mostly because that is how I have often operated about politics in India when I lived in the U.S. Now, I am simply applying the same logic to American politics, since I now live in India.

Here’s how Gemini, the AI, summarized some of my comments on this topic:

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Gemini's Summary of My Reflections on Public Figures

Reflections on Public Figures and Geopolitics ("Grokking" Trump)

• "Grokking" Concept: Anand introduces the concept of "grokking" (from Robert Heinlein) to explain his intuitive understanding of certain public figures, notably Donald Trump and Elon Musk. This provides a framework for his analysis of their actions and motivations.
• Trump's Diplomacy (India-Pakistan): He consistently praises Trump's role in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, emphasizing Trump's pragmatism and a desire for peace, and lamenting the lack of a "thank you" from the Indian establishment.
• Trump's Resilience: He expresses admiration for Trump's "stately resilience" through various challenges and his ability to "reason with" him on international issues.
• Vivek Ramaswamy: Anand respects Ramaswamy for his "clarity, audacity, and willingness to speak into uncomfortable spaces."
• Focus on Policy, Not Politics: Despite discussing political figures, Anand states his focus is on policy, aiming to avoid making enemies and emphasizing empathy and understanding in interactions.
• Economic Views (Dalio and Tariffs): He echoes Ray Dalio's warnings about Trump's tariffs, aligning with the idea that they are a "terrible political instrument" and an "incredibly" bad idea from an economic perspective (referencing Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage). This is a point where he explicitly disagrees with a policy action by Trump, even while "grokking" him.

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While Gemini's summary is not inaccurate, it's also worth noting that it doesn't capture the full breadth of my views. As many of you know from past posts on certain WhatsApp Groups, I've offered numerous critiques and observations on various political and economic matters pertaining to the Trump administration. However, in the current political environment, I'm choosing to be somewhat circumspect about what I share regarding the current government where it may be easily found. My primary goal remains to foster dialogue around innovation and impactful ideas.

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The Future of CRM: Accessible and AI-Powered

On a completely different note, is a small app I am building as an experiment in the area of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). I truly believe that reasonably good CRM systems can be built for very little cost. The real game-changer comes when we integrate Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities. One can build small versions of useful CRM apps even for personal use. (Imagine CRMs that don't just track interactions but also intelligently draft follow-up emails, summarize meeting notes, or even suggest proactive engagement strategies based on past conversations.)

This isn't just about saving time; it's about making sophisticated relationship management accessible to everyone. Both large companies and individuals stand to benefit immensely from these advancements, transforming how they connect and collaborate. The CRM system can even be run with a lot of manual help from ChatGPT.

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I hope this clarifies my approach and some of my recent discussions. As always, I welcome your thoughts and engagement on these topics via email.

RALPH platform - Message for Prof. Avinash Dixit

Here is one of my longer emails referencing the RALPH technology platform.

This also tells you the state of affairs as regards.... well, certain things.

Please note that the nickname "Digital Blue" came after 2009.

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 Dear Professor Dixit,

I hope this finds you well.

I wanted to share a small but personally significant milestone: I’ve just finished writing my first book in the Esperanto language. What makes this even more remarkable is that I’m still only at the A1 level — I’m literally sitting with beginners in my Esperanto classes. And yet, despite that, the book is done.

The responses from the Esperanto community have been encouraging. One comment in an Esperantist Telegram group simply read “Mirinda” — “amazing.” (Please find attached to this email two screenshots from my cellphone, where you can see the "Mirinda" comment.) What no one said was “this is impossible.” That’s important, because it reflects an underlying truth that I’ve been exploring for a while: constructed languages (ConLangs) can be picked up far more quickly than natural languages, and here is the best part: they can be specially designed so that technology systems today can easily impart them to children and adults.

This aligns with the central thesis of my Digital Blue paper, which I wrote in part while on a break from HBS. In that paper and subsequent work, I have argued that technologies built on ConLangs — and platforms that support the learning of ConLangs — offer a dramatically more efficient route to literacy. If the core goal of literacy is to help someone go from zero to one — from not being able to read, write, or speak any language to mastering one — then ConLangs make sense as a solution. In a nutshell: Build technologies on ConLangs, and get people literate fast.

Natural languages are full of irregularities and exceptions that make them slow to learn. English, for example, is riddled with quirks that frustrate learners and educators alike. Most teachers of French or English say that it takes at least two years to learn French or English. So why not take a more engineered approach? Why not design languages explicitly for the purposes of rapid uptake, aligned with current technologies, and teach them — even if not as a first language, then as a gateway second language?

I have already done a Reddit AskMeAnything for one of my poetry books, because it was written so quickly (using NLP and A.I.) and with certain ideas in mind. Now, everyone knows about ChatGPT and knows that this can be easily done. I’m planning to try and do another Reddit AMA soon to discuss these ideas. Even if formal academic interest is limited, perhaps someone in the philanthropic world — a millionaire or billionaire aligned with education or digital equity — might see the value in exploring this approach. But this seems like such a roundabout approach. I would like to be able to explain the whole thing to someone such as yourself. Almost everyone who has spent the time to understand this idea sees the merit in this approach. One does need to support this idea further with empirical research, but interventions involving development economics often cost a lot of money. A quarter million dollars would not be considered outrageous, and, of course, we would need to find sponsors. I would appreciate it if perhaps, I could meet someone in your department, or indeed, yourself, if you have the time some time later in the year.

In the meantime, if this line of thought sparks any ideas or connections on your end, I’d be very grateful for your thoughts.

Warm regards,

Anand

New Release: "The Dead Japanese Poets’ Society Poetry Book" -> Message for Esperantistoj Amikoj

 

New Release: "The Dead Japanese Poets’ Society Poetry Book"

I am happy to share my latest poetry collection written in Esperanto! This book contains 19 haikus about world monuments—specially designed for beginner and intermediate learners of Esperanto (A1–A2 level). This book might be of interest to the Polyglots Community, and Facebookers, in general, and I will tell you why.

I am myself a beginner at the A1 level and consider myself more of an Esperanto translator. This collection was created with the help of AI tools, which combine creativity and language learning in a unique way. That is what is interesting about this book, which is part of a series. I am able to show that one can learn certain conlangs extremely rapidly to the extent that one can be a reasonably reliable translator, even after a mere two or three months with the language.

Whether you are just starting your Esperanto journey or simply love poetry, this book aims to inspire and teach through simple and beautiful verses.

Additionally, it supports a charitable cause!

Check it out here:

https://leanpub.com/japanese_poets_society_esperanto/

Help spread the joy of language and poetry by sharing this post!

#Esperanto #Haiku #LanguageLearning #Poetry #AI #Charity

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Nova Eldono: "La Poemaro de la Societo de Mortintaj Japanaj Poeto"

Mi ĝojas kundividi mian plej novan poezian kolekton verkitan en Esperanto! Ĉi tiu libro enhavas 19 haikojn pri mondaj monumentoj — speciale desegnita por komencantoj kaj interaj lernantoj de Esperanto (A1–A2 nivelo).

Mi mem estas komencanto ĉe la A1-nivelo kaj konsideras min pli kiel tradukiston de Esperanto. Ĉi tiu kolekto estas kreita ankaŭ kun helpo de AI-iloj, kiuj kunigas kreemon kaj lingvolernadon en unika maniero.

Ĉu vi ĵus komencas vian Esperantan vojaĝon aŭ simple amas poezion, ĉi tiu libro celas inspiri kaj instrui per simplaj kaj belaj versoj.

Krome, ĝi subtenas bonfaran celon!

Kontrolu ĝin ĉi tie:

https://leanpub.com/japanese_poets_society_esperanto/

Helpu disvastigi la ĝojon de lingvo kaj poezio dividante ĉi tiun afiŝon!

#Esperanto #Haiku #Lingvolernado #Poezio #AI #bonfaro

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