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Augmenting Rather Than Replacing the Doctor-Patient Relationship
January 8, 2026•2 min read

Augmenting Rather Than Replacing the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Technology

At Thumos Care, we've always believed that AI should augment, not replace, the doctor-patient relationship. Today, we're excited to announce a major step forward in that vision: Clinician Personalization.

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Building a Smarter Health AI: How We're Making Personalized Health Guidance Actually Personal
December 15, 2025•4 min read

Building a Smarter Health AI: How We're Making Personalized Health Guidance Actually Personal

Technology

Announcing major updates to Thumos Care's AI-powered health optimization platform When we first built Thumos Care, we had a simple vision: help people understand their health data and get actionable guidance. Users could upload their blood work, and our AI would analyze the results.

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Building a Scientific Reasoning Engine with Graph-Powered Reinforcement Learning
December 3, 2025•5 min read

Building a Scientific Reasoning Engine with Graph-Powered Reinforcement Learning

Technology

Most language models learn reasoning implicitly from internet text. They absorb patterns of what sounds convincing without explicitly modeling the structure of scientific arguments.

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How Pattern Recognition Becomes Evidence
November 10, 2025•10 min read

How Pattern Recognition Becomes Evidence

GeopoliticsTechnology

I. What I Know to Be True In 2016, I discovered financial and operational connections between D-Company—a transnational criminal syndicate—and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), an ultraconservative political party whose supporters have publicly celebrated extrajudicial killings on false accusations

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Why I Can't Stay Silent Anymore
November 7, 2025•3 min read

Why I Can't Stay Silent Anymore

CultureTechnology

I am writing this publicly because I have reached a point where I cannot carry this alone anymore. I have spent years trying to make sense of what has happened to me — while building advanced AI projects, winning hackathons, and applying to more than 600 jobs — yet I remain unemployed, isolated, and

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Questioning My Reality
November 5, 2025•3 min read

Questioning My Reality

CultureGeopolitics

In retrospect, I should not have been shocked. I had ignored my own instincts for years — partly because of the emotional pressure and dismissal I experienced from people closest to me.

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When a Murder Investigation Borrowed My Identity
November 5, 2025•2 min read

When a Murder Investigation Borrowed My Identity

CultureGeopolitics

On December 4th, 2024, Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. I had been expecting that something consequential was coming — a global pressure build-up was obvious months before this.

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Building the world's first queryable knowledge graph of 30 years of UN diplomatic history
October 27, 2025•2 min read

Building the world's first queryable knowledge graph of 30 years of UN diplomatic history

TechnologyGeopolitics

Generic LLMs can't: Calculate voting correlation across 178 UN resolutions Track how 184 countries voted on specific issues over 30 years Find speeches that reference UNSC Resolution 1325 with sub-second latency and full context Analyze temporal evolution of diplomatic positions using graph relation

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An Open Letter to God
August 25, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to God

PhilosophyInterfaith & Spirituality

Reflecting on divine communication, decentralized consciousness, and the trust that humanity will choose compassion.

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An Open Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu
July 30, 2025•3 min read

An Open Letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

GeopoliticsInterfaith & Spirituality

The tragedy unfolding in Gaza is searing to the human conscience. We appear genetically wired to recoil from such suffering and to reach, however haltingly, for compassion and peace.

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An Open Letter to Volodymyr Zelensky
July 24, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to Volodymyr Zelensky

GeopoliticsPhilosophyInterfaith & Spirituality

Your meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance in the White House on February 28, 2025 was a puzzling, thought-provoking spectacle.

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An Alternate Manifesto for New York City
June 30, 2025•5 min read

An Alternate Manifesto for New York City

Politics

At least 80% of New Yorkers consider cost of living, housing affordability, and public safety as serious problems. However, the manifestos of the two frontrunners in the Democratic mayoral race largely recycled yesterday's solutions to...

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An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
June 23, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump

GeopoliticsInterfaith & SpiritualityPhilosophyNeuroscience

If the Abraham Accords had been implemented in both letter and spirit, the Middle East might already be well on the road to peace. Instead, the region is dotted with powder kegs that could ignite at any moment.

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An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
June 13, 2025•3 min read

An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei

GeopoliticsInterfaith & SpiritualityPhilosophyNeuroscience

I write with a heavy heart after the devastating airstrikes of 13 June 2025, in which Israeli aircraft hit dozens of Iranian military and nuclear sites, causing great loss of life--including senior commanders and scientists--in a...

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An Open Letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping
June 9, 2025•2 min read

An Open Letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping

GeopoliticsPhilosophyAI Ethics & Governance

A man finds the ruins of an old city near his hometown. Curious about his ancestors, he begins to excavate. In the ruins, he finds evidence of architecture, engineering, art, and poetry that indicated a civilization led by a community of...

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An Open Letter to Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman
June 6, 2025•2 min read

An Open Letter to Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman

GeopoliticsInterfaith & SpiritualityTechnologyAI Ethics & Governance

There are people who may resent your country for its role in spreading Wahhabism across the Muslim world, but most of them remain unaware of the extensive efforts you've undertaken to reverse such policies. This transformation is not...

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An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV
June 4, 2025•2 min read

An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV

Interfaith & SpiritualityPhilosophyTechnologyAI Ethics & Governance

As you embraced the papacy upon your election, facing a historic crowd at a historic time, the expressions on your face indicated overwhelm. With your lips sealed, you pulled in three strong vortexes of air through your nose, before...

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The Future of the Smartphone
May 30, 2025•2 min read

The Future of the Smartphone

Technology

As artificial intelligence gets exponentially better, disharmony in human intelligence would result in exponentially greater consequences due to the leverage provided by the former.

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Modeling the Self with Neuronal Tokens
May 12, 2025•2 min read

Modeling the Self with Neuronal Tokens

TechnologyNeuroscienceAI Ethics & Governance

Achieving true superintelligence requires generative AI models capable of deeply modeling both human and non-human agents. While state-of-the-art generative models like GPT-4 can already parse emotions, sentiments, and psychological...

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Personal Superintelligence is Here
March 18, 2025•1 min read

Personal Superintelligence is Here

TechnologyPhilosophyAI Ethics & Governance

The search for next generation artificial intelligence is on with several outstanding teams pursuing diverse visions for the development of superintelligence. But it is already here.

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Semantic Graph Memory Inspired by Neuroscience
March 3, 2025•3 min read

Semantic Graph Memory Inspired by Neuroscience

TechnologyNeuroscience

Large Language Models (LLMs) are incredibly powerful, yet they face a major limitation: a fixed context window that restricts how much information they can "remember." This forces developers to carefully choose what to include in each...

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Building the
February 7, 2025•3 min read

Building the

Technology

This post about an exciting experiment I worked on last year: "House of Wisdom" --an AI-driven application designed for contextually rich conversations grounded in books, research reports, and laws, with answers accompanied by Mermaid...

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Neural Networks and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
March 15, 2024•1 min read

Neural Networks and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

NeurosciencePhilosophyAI Ethics & Governance

Exploring whether artificial neural networks can help us understand the emergence of subjective experience in biological systems.

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The Ethics of AI Governance in Democratic Systems
March 10, 2024•1 min read

The Ethics of AI Governance in Democratic Systems

PoliticsAI Ethics & GovernanceTechnology

How should democratic societies regulate artificial intelligence while preserving innovation and protecting civil liberties?

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Phenomenology in the Digital Age
March 5, 2024•1 min read

Phenomenology in the Digital Age

PhilosophyTechnology

Revisiting Husserl and Merleau-Ponty's ideas about embodied experience in an era of virtual reality and digital interfaces.

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The Sims
November 14, 2023•5 min read

The Sims

TechnologyAI Ethics & GovernancePhilosophy

Researchers at Google DeepMind and Stanford University published a paper this year demonstrating how computational software agents can simulate believable human behavior. They created a sandbox environment, inspired by a video game called...

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Unity
October 30, 2023•3 min read

Unity

PhilosophyInterfaith & Spirituality

The events unfolding now were set into motion long ago. We may not be able to stop them but we can still build an inclusive vision for a better future.

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Psychohistory Reloaded
October 16, 2023•10 min read

Psychohistory Reloaded

PhilosophyNeuroscience

In the Foundation series of Sci-Fi books written by Isaac Asimov, the main protagonist Dr. Harry Seldan is an expert in psychohistory which uses history, psychology, sociology, and statistical mathematics to predict the future of...

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Peace is Jerusalem
October 10, 2023•2 min read

Peace is Jerusalem

GeopoliticsPhilosophyNeuroscienceInterfaith & Spirituality

Most civilizations have encountered the dream to harmonize minds at scale but found it to be notoriously hard.

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Intersections is Shan Rizvi's notebook of open letters, peace architecture, and technical lab notes. The essays move between heads-of-state diplomacy, semantic graph memory design, and the mystical traditions that still inform modern governance.

Each piece is an attempt to weave neuroscience, theology, and emerging AI into strategies that make reconciliation and human-centric intelligence feel actionable.

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