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They had the guts and willpower to learn Sumerian. Why, I wonder, had they to use an LLM to write the essay about it? It kind of invalidates the core messages.
I read the entire post, very well written, and didn't suffer from that impression that it was written by an LLM
And spacing. To say what?
Very little.
There's [...] no Duolingo owl reminding you, “Your streak is in danger!”
"That's when I learned the difference between burnout and disillusionment. Burnout drains your body; disillusionment erases your purpose. You can recover from exhaustion with rest, but you need something else entirely to recover from meaninglessness." This is an accurate pathology to burnout at least in my experience. I worked on many hard things in my life, from school to obsessing over hard problems on weekends but…
> Two weeks before launch, they pulled the plug > It took 6 months of being stuck after reaching a local maxima in my career. I was working on menial, meaningless, tasks that I knew amounted to nothing while I was doing them. That caused my burnout. This idea I think about a lot, and I believe another way to describe it is "alienation from labor," or, in the doing of labor, alienation from purpose or meaning. Marx wr…
I once worked for a start up that got taken over. In the process all retained staff lost their options.
I don’t think the options were really worth that much so I guess we were supposed to just be happy we still had our jobs.
The pettiness of it though just sucked the life out of the work for me. I found it very hard to concentrate and very hard to give a shit about anything after that.
It’s a massive indicator that it’s time to move on.
It's a hobby though. At the end of the article the author says 'This is why telling burned-out people to "find work-life balance" or "pursue hobbies" often fails.' But this is literally a hobby. Something you put effort into without needing to justify why, just because you enjoy it, is a hobby. It's cool but the author makes it out to be way more profound than it is (ironically, justifying it with a narrative to turn…
Yes, but the problem is that people often choose a hobby that will benefit their career. If you are going to spend time on a hobby why not pick a hobby that also benefits your career? Win win? I struggle with that, partly because computer science was my hobby. Then I went to university studying it, and enjoying it as a hobby. Then I started working, still enjoying it as a hobby. And if I have 10 interesting topics I…
Why not work on something that might have value in your free time?
Worst case scenario it’s just a hobby. Best case scenario it’s a hobby someone will pay you to do.
…Sumerian, written in cuneiform, was humanity's first writing system. A language that hasn't been spoken in four thousand years. The same question circles again: Why am I doing this? Why am I trying to learn Sumerian, a language that hasn't been spoken for five thousand years?… Watch out reader, by the end it maybe indeed turn out that Sumerian hasn’t been spoken for 10, 20, or 30 thousand years. The LLM just doesn’t…
…Sumerian, written in cuneiform, was humanity's first writing system. A language that hasn't been spoken in four thousand years. The same question circles again: Why am I doing this? Why am I trying to learn Sumerian, a language that hasn't been spoken for five thousand years?… Watch out reader, by the end it maybe indeed turn out that Sumerian hasn’t been spoken for 10, 20, or 30 thousand years. The LLM just doesn’t…
Maybe indeed an LLM would have caught my little faux pas, or perhaps invented a more eloquent one.
Did you just respond to yourself but forgot to switch your handle?
Fancy that. I recently bought the book 'Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners' by Joshua Bowen and Megan Lewis and have been designing a 3D printed pasta roller to pass sheets of air-dry clay thru a typewriter with a few rotatable typeslugs to make different Sumerian symbols with minimal keys.
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Maybe indeed an LLM would have caught my little faux pas, or perhaps invented a more eloquent one.
> Maybe indeed an LLM would have caught my little faux pas, or perhaps invented a more eloquent one. reply Did you just respond to yourself but forgot to switch your handle?