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0 pointssalter21y ago0 comments

I'm the same age as you; I feel lost, erring in being a little too pessimistic.

Feels like I hit the real world just a couple years too late to get situated in a solid position. Years of obsession in attempt to catch up to the wizards, chasing the tech dream. But this, feels like this is it. Just watching the timebomb tick. I'd love to work on what feels like the final technology, but I'm not a freakshow like what these labs are hiring. At least I get to spectate the creation of humanity's greatest invention.

This announcement is just another gut punch, but at this point I should expect its inevitable. A Jason Voorhees AGI, slowly but surely to devour all the talents and skills information workers have to offer.

Apologies for the rambly and depressing post, but this is reality for anyone recently out or still in school.

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t0lo1y ago

At least you're disillusioned with the idea of a long term career before a lot of other people. It's disturbing seeing how ready people are to go into a lifelong career and expecting stability and happiness in the world we're heading into.

We are living in a world run by and for the soon to be dead, many of which have dementia, so empathic policy and foresight is out of the question, and we're going to be picking up the incredibly broken scraps of our golden age.

And not to get too political but the mass restructuring of public consciousness and intellectual society due to mass immigration for an inexplicable gdp squeeze and social media is happening at exactly the wrong time to handle these very serious challenges. The speed at which we've undone civil society is breakneck, and it will go even further, and it will get even worse. We've easily gone back 200 years in terms of emotional intelligence in the past 15.

neom1y ago

Put another way, you have deep conviction in a change that vast majority of people have not even seen yet, never mind grokked, and you're young enough to spend some decent amount of time on education for "venn'ing" yourself into a useful tool in the future. If you have a baseline education, there are any number of orthogonal skills you could add, be it philosophy, fine art, medicine, whatever. You know how to skate and you know where the puck is going, most most people, don't even see the rink.

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