I can’t play chess for shit but am generally quite smart and a good problem solver with an acuity for breaking down information and re-communicating it to others along with myriad other complex mental tasks involving abstract input (life, people, objects, etc). How will chess ever identify me as “smart”?

Nothing has a simple answer like this, period. I can’t tell you what the solution to all of this is, but I can tell you when something is definitively not a solution. Our problems are systemic and societal, if you want to actually have a discussion about how to fix any of these things the answers, unfortunately, lurk in a distinctly messy realm; philosophy, psychology, and society not logical problem solving.

I’ve started saying to myself recently “it’s not logical to think only logic is required to help humanity” we are not logical creatures, and that’s ok, it’s actually beuatifull really. But pretending we could or should be solely logical beings while eschewing the reality of our basic nature in order to come to conclusions about humanity and its “best present and future” is just magical thinking. Ugliness always arises from these attempts to redirect our nature.

Yup. I have no real problem with the concept being pushed around of automation giving us freedom, except that our capital obsessed society has no plan for how to support humans during this revolution and little willingness to even entertain the idea that it’ll be necessary.

Yeah I’ve said a number of times that the AI being designed today could easily destroy humans, but not because it becomes self aware. The more likely possibility is that this beta tool gets put in control of critical systems by someone cutting corners and bam, total meltdown. Not because the AI is intending to do harm, but instead simply because it is ill suited for the task and NOT an actual intelligence.

I don’t know if anyone has said this, I didn’t go through all the comments, but be sure to probe depression or mood disorders. If you’re not active also definitely try adding a little bit of activity early every day even if you feel like you can’t, just let yourself tap out if you want but at least show up and start to see if you actually want to continue.

I am definitely NOT saying to not continue to probe medical reasons by any means. But feeling tired all the time can be a characteristic of mood disorders and it can be easy to misattribute just how physically tired that can make you for a physical ailment. It can also be hard to see it when you may have coped well with it your whole life, but are only now reaching the burnout from it.

*Said as a human not an expert at all.

I need instructions for this 🤔

I want to come up with a Flock pun for this but it’s too early…

I just finished Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, which I quite liked, and am now on to Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Bit of a shift!

Because cute 🥹

Heh, yeah.

Sus 🤨