Not sure.
I ought to go back to the gym. Once you're there, you're glad you're went, and in daily life it's also quite pleasant to be physically and mentally healthier.
I'm starting uni in September. I'd like to really get a lot done in the remaining portion of my gap year. Not just the hard stuff (my project[0], revising maths and physics after a long break, etc), but also literature and reading.
I'm worried about AI. Really quite worried, actually. I get the sense that this forum is almost engaged in a collective exercise of cognitive dissonance to avoid the implications of the rapid progress that we're all so aware of.
It's funny, I chose a physics degree in part because I felt it would provide some security from AI, but that seems to be disappearing before I've even started it.
Really, though, I have done what I can. What else is there to do but wait and see? A New Year's resolution won't do anything about it.
So perhaps, instead, I should merely resolve to sleep. It's 1AM here and I'm on Hacker News!
> I'm worried about AI. Really quite worried, actually. I get the sense that this forum is almost engaged in a collective exercise of cognitive dissonance to avoid the implications of the rapid progress that we're all so aware of.
Of course it is. People here are active drivers of the latest technology. It's a given that they'll take the instrumentalist "AI is a tool, it just has to be carefully used" cop-out because they could never handle the cognitive dissonance that they are making the world significantly worse.
Those of us that have been around quite a while have seen consistent ‘rapid progress’ in technology and automation over the last 30+ years. This isn’t the first time there’s a new world changing technology.
I'm starting uni in September. I'd like to really get a lot done in the remaining portion of my gap year. Not just the hard stuff (my project[0], revising maths and physics after a long break, etc), but also literature and reading.
I'm worried about AI. Really quite worried, actually. I get the sense that this forum is almost engaged in a collective exercise of cognitive dissonance to avoid the implications of the rapid progress that we're all so aware of.
It's funny, I chose a physics degree in part because I felt it would provide some security from AI, but that seems to be disappearing before I've even started it.
Really, though, I have done what I can. What else is there to do but wait and see? A New Year's resolution won't do anything about it.
So perhaps, instead, I should merely resolve to sleep. It's 1AM here and I'm on Hacker News!
[0] https://nuenki.app . Couldn't resist :P