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June 23, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump

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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June 13, 2025•3 min read

An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei

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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May 12, 2025•2 min read

Modeling the Self with Neuronal Tokens

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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March 3, 2025•3 min read

Semantic Graph Memory Inspired by Neuroscience

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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March 15, 2024•1 min read

Neural Networks and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

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

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October 16, 2023•10 min read

Psychohistory Reloaded

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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October 10, 2023•2 min read

Peace is Jerusalem

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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