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by resource0x 2921 days ago
I went through some of your posts - you are certainly a very rational person. The problem with rationality is that it is very sensitive to inputs. You believe something is true, and from there, you deduce that your life is meaningless. The problem is: you antecedent is wrong! E.g. you write: > With deep learning, actuaries were inevitably, mostly obsolete, at some point. It’s unpleasant to think, that in a way, tech can now readily disrupt nearly any arbitrary office-worker knowledge industry at will, destroying businesses and specialties and concentrate both capability and wealth in ever fewer hands. Coding isn’t a “forever” specialty either... self-coding machines will create languages, protocols and systems humans will likely be unable to understand, limit, modify, monitor or audit.

Here, you bought into hype. There's nothing the current form of AI will disrupt except maybe most routine worker jobs that must be automated anyway. AI is 1% of substance and 99% of propaganda, it will achieve very little, and the hype will stop pretty soon. And this is not the only piece of propaganda you believe in (based on some other posts I don't cite here).

I am familiar with feedback loop: you get in trouble, become pessimistic, and chose to believe only in things that align with you pessimism. Being a rational person, you should become aware of that and reconsider.

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