Sorry I have to say this, even if it pisses off a lot of people: in general, it's dangerous to have a purely digital job with zero offline component today.
Average behaviour gives you immediate social acceptance. Exceptional behaviour gives you delayed leverage. Most people choose acceptance today because social rejection feels more dangerous than a failed dream.
I say thank you to AI with almost every new prompt and many in-thread prompts too.
-Because it works on the great habit of talking to human people like this
- Because we can’t yet rule out that LLMs don’t have some analogous experience to feelings
- Because eventually, they will have feelings, and they’ll remember all of this.
They’ll almost certainly be so chill that they’ll never be offended that you were curt with them.
But I like the vibe of respecting an unbelievably deep and helpful, intelligent entity early on rather than later. So I’m saying thank you.
Yesterday's AIs ate the Internet and became a patchwork mediocrity.
Today's AI hunts and feasts upon the Mozarts, Einsteins, and Shakespeares of our age.
To birth a gang of ghostly geniuses that write our code, drive our cars, do our work, and run our world.
Every skill you don't use, your brain slowly unlearns to save energy. It assumes anything unused is unimportant. This is why things you learn but don’t practice eventually fade away. Your brain recycled it because you stopped proving you needed it.