If everyone uses AI, then the standard of mastery hasn't lowered - it's increased!
We're now caught in a dilemma: Do we play the short term game and use AI at the expense of our skills, or do we play the long term game and avoid AI where possible to build up expertise while risking being out-competed by everyone else who is using AI?
If I can list out the issues you have mentioned, just to get a picture first:
- Burnout in current job.
- No alternative jobs you want.
- No appetite for job hunting.
- House is gone.
- Wife is gone.
These are big problems - too big for someone to solve alone. First step is to find someone trusted who can support you. Whether it's a friend, family member or a professional. If they aren't available, a local support group. And if that isn't available, find a pro bono service online. You need someone checking in with you and helping you put a plan together over the next few months.
Next step is to prioritise the list. What MUST be fixed right away? Create a plan for each item.
After you have a plan, you potentially need some time to execute. Think about taking extended leave, a break for a few weeks. You need time and space to stop the spiral.
> First step is to find someone trusted who can support you. Whether it's a friend, family member or a professional. If they aren't available, a local support group. And if that isn't available, find a pro bono service online. You need someone checking in with you and helping you put a plan together over the next few months.
If I could get this I wouldn't have made this post.
This is a reminder to everyone else that there are good, hardworking people falling through the cracks. Because nobody cares. You can do all the shit but if nobody cares about you, you will NEVER get your needs met. Ever. Once society sees that you have been rejected it's impossible to remove the black stain on your social standing. It doesn't matter if it's justified or reasonable, once the smear occurs you are done.
"nobody cares" except if you've been rejected, then life has some sort of blackball effect on you?
I'm sorry but nonsense. You need to find someone to slap sense into you, you're too far down this dark hole.
You got the job to keep the wife who left anyway and apparently took the house. The job sucks. This seems like two parts of the equation that cancel one another out -- so dump the job. Work as a walmart greeter or something for a bit. go travel, backpacking, hosteling, hey, be one of those traveling beggars that I hate so much -- I bet they don't wake up every day and think about societal black marks on some imaginary scorecard. They think about bumming a ride to that badass glacier over yonder because they want to yell at it and listen to the echo.
the rut is deep, but you can walk right out and reinvent yourself. I hope you find a path to do so, even if it sucks for a bit. It sounds like it can only be better over yonder, wherever that is.
That google-control article shines a big light on the problem. If all the companies are own by the same parent, they'll naturally follow the same strategy to maximise clicks.
Have I finally found the reason this why all recipe sites operate the same dysfunctional way??
What I got from his interviews is not that he disliked the GoL, it's just he disliked the GoL overshadowing everything else he did (basically, becoming the GoL guy). He personally didn't see much more interesting mathematics that could be done after answering basic questions like universality (although it's likely he wasn't aware of everything the community was up to). Also, it's clear he seemed to come to terms with it in his final interviews (including the second one you linked) :)
I've played around with several CAs and Conway's rules stands out to me as one of the most interesting still, for many reasons (like simplicity, interesting patterns, long lived structures).
Reminds me of Steve Paxton, an amazing dancer who passed away recently. He led a project called “Contact Improvisations”, which became a movement form called Contact Improvisation. He taught some classes and many others contributed. 50 years later, it’s still going strong. But, he didn’t embrace this role of “Contact Improv guy” that was really available to him. He just kept doing other stuff, even as this community exploded.
I think that’s partly the nature of pure researchers. They usually have something more interesting to them than what they got famous for, and they probably don’t want to lead an organization. This is different from BDFLs like Guido van Rossum and Rich Hickey. Neither type is good or bad, and I appreciate them all.
It's almost by definition that if you get popular for something, it is not the thing you're most interested in or best at - because you're an expert in the craft and for something to be popular it has to be at least somewhat approachable by non-experts.
If everyone uses AI, then the standard of mastery hasn't lowered - it's increased!
We're now caught in a dilemma: Do we play the short term game and use AI at the expense of our skills, or do we play the long term game and avoid AI where possible to build up expertise while risking being out-competed by everyone else who is using AI?