About

Venkat Rao

It started with a bat, on a barren patch of land.

There was an empty patch of land in our apartment complex. Nobody used it. Three of us started playing cricket on it on Saturday nights. About three years later, around forty people come. We play, we stay on and talk, and the group has its own life between Saturdays.

Cricket was never really the point. It was a reason to keep turning up for each other. Everything on this site is my attempt to explain why that matters, and why it matters more now than it ever has.

Who I am

I'm Venkat Rao; most people call me Venki. I live in Thane, Maharashtra. For more than eighteen years I have built enterprise systems, in banking and financial services, manufacturing and IT services, and more recently in education and real estate. My training is in psychology, and I am a doctoral (DBA) candidate at ESGCI Paris. I write under Two Point Singularity Press, an imprint of Kirti Enterprises: nine books, three of them published.

The question that would not leave

The technological singularity, the moment machine intelligence passes ours, is coming. I don't think it can be stopped. So I kept asking: when machines out-think us, what will humans still have? My answer is the thing I watched grow on that cricket ground: people who trust each other enough to act as one. I call it coherence. If the first point is the technological singularity, the second is the coherence singularity. Two Point Singularity is the work of making sure the second comes first.

What I believe, and where I might be wrong

I believe machine intelligence will keep getting stronger whatever we decide; that every human was held before they could think; and that coherence is not new: every tradition has known it in its own words, and no tradition owns it.

I might be wrong about whether coherence can be measured well enough to test, and about whether the state of the people who train AI changes what AI learns. I have pre-registered that second claim (OSF.IO/W7NYH) so it can be proved wrong. Show me evidence against anything here, and the correction goes on the record.

How I make the work

I write with AI assistance and say so on every book and page. The ideas, the decisions and the mistakes are mine. Claims are graded; research is pre-registered; corrections are public.

Contact

venkat@twopointsingularity.com · ORCID 0009-0003-3477-1225

Not to be confused with Venkatesh Rao, the American writer of Ribbonfarm. Different person, different work.