What if AI elevates your thinking by replacing the lower forms of thinking and making room for elevated forms?

Habitual anything intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition

Sort of makes sense. Errors accumulating.

Could an agent no develop a bespoke correction algorithm for the photos of the photo?

Why feed it photos of a photo when you could just feed it the photo that was printed out?

A. What if some part looks like some other non-gun part? B. What if they can further break down the pieces to avoid detection?

I for one am looking forward to retirement. I am planning on being high all the time, gardening and yelling at children passing by my property. Growing my hair and beard, wearing a bandana and a tie-dyed shirt and paying for my coffee in quarters in a wooden treasure box I carry as a purse. The goal is to liberate the crazy.

All the things you think you would enjoy might not hit the spot at all when you will retire.

Learned that when took 2 years off work.

Yea. Having a purpose and bonding with other people on the way to achieving it are underrated elements of being working age.

If you're not conscious about it in retirement, it's easy to just do nothing, waste away, and find out many years too late. You actually need different ingredients to feel satisfied.

You can still have a purpose and achieve things, just not for the money

I may or may not. But tell us more about what your experience was in that two years I'm curious.

I didn't have a routine/discipline to organize myself to do something meaningful, so it was pursuing hobbies with minimal effort. Afyer a while all the things I enjoyed, because they would help me relax after work felt pointless and I went trough a short depression caused by a breakup which made the meaningless part feel even more real.

Also when you have free time, you burn trough the cash reserves so quickly because of so many thing you can do with money.

I thought that when I'll be older I'll drink more and be happy all the time, but if you are not stressed by anything and in a sad place, alcohol doesn't feel good, just pointless.

These are all things you can do now. Why wait?

I can but doing so will cause instability in my social standing and I cannot risk that while I have others depending on me for stability.

Hey friend, I am also 38, and I am also recently "aloned". I had a break up in August and lived with my parents until February.

At first it was strange, I was acutely feeling the loneliness. But gradually I started seeing its upsides, and I am beginning to dangerously enjoy it haha.

I am using the time and space to take care of and express myself. Live slowly, cook myself warm dinners, nice coffees; I made a cozy nook for reading, I am planning on adding fragrant flowers to my terrace.

I am planning on a routine, which includes going to the gym and actually trying and enjoy moving my body. Sometimes I have the luxury of just sitting in the park next to the gym and soak up some sun, enjoy the sounds if birds and the water fountain.

I am hybrid so I get to go to the office and see my colleagues. Somehow, luckily, every weekend some social event happened, a dear friend came to visit. It was my aunts birthday. I also have a housewarming planned in two weeks which motivates me to make the place beautiful to show off.

My advice would be, simply, to focus on the current moment. Thoughts take you awry, try not to ruminate. Have a plan, and trust the process. There are five things absolutely needed for health and happiness(not in a particular order):

1. Good food 2. Exercising 3. Sunlight 4. Sleep 5. Friends

So while you are alone, I would question the rest too, do you eat well? Do you exercise? Do you go out? Do you sleep well?

The way our mind works is whenever a state comes up, it ups the likelihood of that state to come up again. So try to summon happy states, would be difficult and feel fake at first but it really works. Gratitude is a good one. Writing or expressing it doesn't work well for me, so I like to do it when I clean, I feel grateful as I am gently scrubbing the mirror for instance for helping me fix up my appearance. Find yours.

From what you wrote it sounds like you already know what to do, but you are reluctant. Why is that? One could identify with one's depression by ruminating over it.

In closing I highly recommend the book, the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, it has a free audiobook on YouTube too.

I wish you the best of luck. Life could be whatever you want it to be and there is no true self, all is constructed and you can engineer your psyche anew.

Cheers

Thank you for the thoughtful comment. And particularly for:

> I feel grateful as I am gently scrubbing the mirror for instance for helping me fix up my appearance

If you'd like to chat, my email's in my profile. Thanks for the book recommendation too.

I can second that the Book or even better Audiobook (read by Tolle himself) The Power of Now can have profound impact on ones life. I would recommend to give it a shot.

You can tell him and he will love it and I bet he has encoded the behavior of working better because of it just how some tried threatening LLMs to work harder

Says the AI.

Thousand of companies to be replaced by leaner counterparts that learned to use AI towards greater employment and productivity

Where are my LLM-crafted Google and Instagram?

Not part if the thousands