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What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?

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Re: What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?

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Post by Thanemate »

Aurornis wrote: post #48

There’s a term for this behavior: Doomscrolling People who doomscroll rarely recognize it as doomscrolling because they only think of the term as something that happens to other people. They see their own consumption as accurate and important. They don’t see their sources as doomerism, they think they have identified the real truth that others don’t see yet. They have a short memory for the gross inaccuracies of thei…

I don't think job search is doomscrolling, because all job openings I see ask for mandatory LLM familiarity. This is where the use of a tool goes beyond "just a tool" and becomes just as important as your own knowledge.

In fact, if someone were to tell me that a mediocre candidate was chosen over a widely appraised candidate (open source contributions and all) because the former was more familiar with prompting while the other wasn't... I'd fully believe it.

This is how cooked the job market is, and everyone telling me it's not due to LLM usage is in denial.

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Post by mathgladiator »

joshmarinacci wrote: post #34

This too shall pass. Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things: * Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated * A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen * after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.

AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different.

I have a claude "skill/program/mega-prompt" for health: https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md

I gave it absolutely everything, and praise be to the machine I get the best debate and recommendations I've ever seen. I check what I know to be true, and it's there. I check the logic, and it is sound. I check the medication recommendations and they are legit. I bet in 2030, AI will be able to prescribe medicine.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

andsoitis wrote: post #2

Humans are curious so we will try things. Don’t let the things you cannot control upset you. Manage risk by increasing your optionally across important dimensions like finances, citizenship, friends, etc. Don’t try to save the world. Enjoy simple things in your day to day.

Probably the most reasonable, specific, and hardest to implement advice on this thread the the time of reading.

Suggestions 1 and 3 are hard though!

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Post by co_king_5 »

this-is-why wrote: post #51
5o1ecist wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Ah yes. Whattaboutism. Awesome. Tell me again the political leanings of the billionaire class? Tell me again who is fighting them? Facts speak for themselves but go ahead and make shit up to defend the right wing.

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Post by michael_michael »

jameskilton wrote: post #16

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you w…

Consider the lilies of the goddamn field.

- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Post by jakebasile »

jameskilton wrote: post #16

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you w…

Matthew 6:34 is probably my favorite verse and one I come back to often in my anxiety.

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Post by wcoenen »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #23
lm28469 wrote: post #3

Drive an hour outside of any large city hub, switch off your phone and rediscover that 99% of all this shit does not matter. The hype around llms will collapse soon enough, it already started, it'll follow the same curve as ar/vr and cryptos, from 24/7 news cycle to "yeah I guess that's kinda neat sometimes, maybe"

AR/VR, cryptocurrency, fractal compression schemes, transputers, VLIW, "low code" in various forms for 40-odd years. You know what remains? Thumping great Unix boxes running relational databases, same as they ever were. I'm currently advising some rainbow-haired alphabet soup group annoying children with strong views about neopronouns about what they can base the software backend for their startup - which looks good…

Those "Thumping great Unix boxes" (or indeed even integrated circuits) didn't exist before the sixties. So it seems that technological revolutions do occur from time to time.

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Post by jakebasile »

1attice wrote: post #59
jameskilton wrote: post #16

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you w…

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HN is not one mind.

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Post by ontouchstart »

ontouchstart wrote: post #56

I am watching ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Interviews to set the perspective. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn0nrSd4xjjaSLBSzmno-...

For example:

Allen Newell, 1975 ACM A. M. Turing Award Recipient: “Desires and Diversions”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCe0ZPGap_k

Wisdom from the previous AI era.

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