@rationalaussie The human brain is an exceptional machine when it comes to coping. The next few years are going to be really interesting, as we will see a lot more of these mental gymnastics.
@sunghopark20124 Hey Sungho! Nice to meet you. I’m a PhD @ Monash Uni, researching on recursive self improving systems in the contract law domain. The goal to focus on AI safety and alignment and developing a system that can behave like a judge fairly for contract law. Would love to connect!
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: https://t.co/PVvpQCbQtK
The amount of people commenting under this post asking, “what” they should focus on, is why the entire concept of jobs is broken. People don’t even know how to follow their own interests. Just keep following safe roadmaps blindly.
On this Kane Ballon d’Or, I have something to say that reflect my point when I talk about football and life. Look at Kane, he’s 33, look at the players around his age Neymar, Pogba, Dybala, Lukaku, amount others. Compare their Journey with Harry Kane. Can you see where I am going?? That’s life. 10 years ago, you won’t actually think Harry Kane will be a ballon d’or winner and Neymar highest finish will be third. Look at his career, till age 30. It’s always about the things he couldn’t win. But today he’s won the highest award in football. That’s also how life is, the journey might be long, might take another route different to others but doesn’t mean you’re late. There’s no late comer for success. Benzema played the most games before winning ballon d’or, Kane has played the second most games, yet it’s not a stat people remember.
And that’s the thing about life, you can spend so much time looking at people around you and wondering why things are not happening for you at the same pace. You see people your age achieving things you are still praying for, people you started with moving ahead of you, and sometimes you begin to question whether you are doing something wrong. But Kane’s story is a reminder that everybody has their own journey. You can be good at what you do, put in the work for years and still have to wait longer than you expected before everything finally comes together.
Imagine if Kane had allowed the things he couldn’t achieve at Tottenham to define his entire career. Imagine if he had started believing that the opportunity to win the biggest trophies had passed him by. Today, we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation the way we are having it. He kept showing up, kept scoring goals, kept improving, and when the opportunity came to take a different route, he took it.
Sometimes, the problem is that we judge our lives based on where we think we should be by a certain age. At 25, you think you should have achieved this. At 30, you think you should have figured everything out. And when life doesn’t happen according to that timeline, you start feeling like you are behind. But behind who? Who decided that everybody must achieve their dreams at the same age?
Kane is 33, and he has just reached a height many people thought he would never reach. That should tell you something. Your story is not finished simply because you haven’t achieved what you wanted to achieve by now. You haven’t failed simply because somebody else got there before you. And you are not late just because your journey is taking longer than you imagined.
Keep working. Keep showing up. Keep becoming better at what you do. You don’t know how your story will end, and you don’t need to have everything figured out today. Sometimes, all you need to do is keep going long enough to see what your life can become.
Harry Kane’s journey is a reminder that you should never be in a hurry to write yourself off. The chapter you are currently in is not necessarily the conclusion of your story.
@jueun_kim_ Nice to meet you too! It is indeed an important problem especially because of the high stakes that come from the law side. Thanks for your good wishes! Wishing you all the best in your work too.
Imagine 5 years from now when we have AIs that are superhuman at all tasks that we humans care about.
At that point, the only thing we will seek from other humans is social connection to satisfy our inborn craving for exchanging stories and gossip around campfire.
For all other activities where efficiency and outcomes matter, there will be an AI that does it better, cheaper and faster which will push us to finding humans a bottleneck in getting what we want.
Right now, functions and social connection comes in a bundle. At a company, you not only get work done but also exchange gossip and practice politics. Similar with conferences, you learn a little and you connect a little. Same with universities.
Soon, these functions will get unbundled. For work, education, governance, advice, AIs will be far superior; while schools, conferences and workplaces will all morph into kinds of playgrounds that we haven’t yet invented.
I’m convinced 50-70% of jobs can already be replaced and be like 100x more efficient
Majority of jobs are useless in current age, i hope we convert fast
The sad part of it all is there will be some scientists out there who will lament this, like some mathematicians are.
They wanted their tenure and their stipend to solve a problem going about it in their own pace for a good 2-3 decade and scoff at lesser mortals from their ivory towers while at it.
Now they will be required to accelerate and they won't like it one but because the purpose, from the start, was not to solve the problem but be seen as a solver long enough.