That's an interesting thought. As AI is taking over the "mundane", us humans will need to shift "up", where work is supposed to be "deep". So, hopefully, being always-busy, and complaining about "back to back meetings", will stop being the flex it is today.
Wait.. is it expected to be a flex? Last bigger project I had no time for actual work, precisely because of back to back meetings. Is it a flex as an indicator that your presence is needed?
Reminds me of why the Space Shuttle's external tank was a rusty red color: after the first couple of launches, they stopped painting it white, because of cost and weight.
For many of them, not even that. Is Socrates outdated, or Thomas Jefferson? How about Picasso? The first of these is widely believed to have been what we would today call a pedophile (this being common in his culture and time), the second was a slave owner and the third was an abusive, jealous womanizer.
Or how about Gone with the Wind itself: The novel and book deal with many universal themes of families, love and human ties being destroyed and deformed by terrible circumstances outside of individual control. Many, many victims of political and social tragedy from any time in history right to the present can easily identify with that central concept without being completely blinded into flippant, fashionable woke dismissal by focusing only on the type of society portrayed in the book and film. The movie's central emotional drama is nearly universal to human history. This is why it was so enormously popular, and its central emotional concept still is today.
If you think this is horrific, then you apparently assume that it has "consciousness" rather than only simulating it. A true AGI might be intelligent but only simulate consciousness. And yes, it might be difficult to tell the difference.
This reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. In order to upgrade the Chinese Room to modern deep learning: suppose we run a brain image by instructing each human being on Earth to act as one neuron. Would "we" "feel" discomfort?
For that matter, you might only be simulating consciousness. How could you prove otherwise? I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt though, and treat you as if you were really conscious.
In the narrative there really isn't any reason to think the simulations are 100% as conscious as you or I. But even if I lived in the world of Lena and suspected that uploads weren't conscious, if I were presented with a program which could speak about it's desires, had all the memories of a real person, and had to be cajoled into working with lies and fear, I would be very hesitant to use "red motivation"! Are you so confident you understand what underlies consciousness that you would take that risk?
In a community like HN, where most people work on making rocks think, it’s no surprise when most people start applying the logic backwards: that since we think, we can be no more complex than rocks.
This article shows a barrage of Democrats not raided on similar warrants and a whole slew of Republicans raided on similarly-flimsy ground.
It's simple: the FBI is the enforcement arm of the democratic party, and it operates transparently as such. It is in no way a legitimate law enforcement agency.l, and performs no legitimate function.
I think it's noble that you wish for equality. We all do.
Let's hope you press for the same in all other aspects of your life and your vote at the ballot box. Vote for the candidates that work to represent everyone and not just wealthy white males.
Therapy is what helped me the most long term, and I think is the only really solution for true anxiety. It requires finding the right therapist though - I went through a few before I found someone. I put this off for so long because of the cost and, of course, the anxiety just meeting a new therapist. I think for me talking to a male therapist in particular really helped for some reason.
I used various drugs to help me "get through life" before therapy. My anxiety was completely crushing, and I felt I had no other choice.
In retrospect, I wish I had just gotten good therapy in my 20s, because living nearly 3 decades with intense social anxiety just really freakin' sucks and drags down all aspects of life. And with real long term anxiety, it takes a skilled third party to get your brain patterns to change enough to overcome it long term.
I'd say I also think I'm a "highly sensitive person", which means my primitive brain reacts more strongly to external stimuli. I think it explains a lot of my struggle in retrospect. I still feel stressed in social situations, but I know how to deal with it now mentally - I consciously recognize what is happening, and calm down the screaming part of my brain, and the anxiety mostly goes away.
