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Doing things I love: - Learning French and Japanese - Drinking tea and exploring tea culture - Playing Geoguessr (or in my case, Geotastic) to see different places in the world and just generally have a fun time figuring out languages, and unique traits of different countries and cultures - Reading and watching science fiction, lots and lots of it! - Coding. I really do love writing code. - Trying to improve my commu…
As for me I feel the AI fear. Just a few months ago, narrative that AI won't replace programmers, made a lot of sense, and still somewhat does. But after spending a few weeks totally vibe coding my new project, which is technically advanced, which for sure would be very hard to do on my own, I felt the pressure of what happens in the future with my career. The only thing keeping me sane is hope, that even if AI takes…
If we are replaced, it means that a lot of other white collar occupations will also face replacement. But, we are responsible for a disproportional parcel of the aggregate demand and also, the white collar middle class holds a giant share of all credit. Put all these people out of a job, and you'll end up with the mother of all economic depressions ever. Either the powers-that-be find a solution (like return to offic…
> Either the powers-that-be find a solution ...
I don't personally feel very optimistic that they are actually trying to find a solution
My biggest problem right now is thanks to Claude I'm making much faster progress on my passion project and I'm working in a maniac state almost, but then I remind myself that it's probably meaningless because if things progress as they have, anyone can just copy what I've built, and if we get to AGI all bets are off anyway. Balancing these two moods is tough. Lots of sleepless nights lately. Thankfully I have a large…
I keep my mouth shut. Rational self interest, with the caveat that my own self is irrational. Let other people dig their own graves.
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“It’s bad long term” is an unsupported assertion. Why do you believe it?
It's bad if it's all you do for the long term. You need to move on from it eventually.
In fact, IME people who do that often tend to have an attitude than leans toward the toxic positivity side.