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about 13 hours ago

thinking aloud about my career and what i want my life's work (as least in the relative medium/long term) to be. i don't know *exactly* what i want to do yet, but i think i do know broadly what issues naturally pique my curiosity and that i think are important. they're not necessarily all overlapping--like, i don't think i'm going to find a single job that allows me to work on all of them--but i think it's a good exercise to list out what they are: - human connection: this is one of the most significant issues of our time, imo. many more specific crises fall under this umbrella: the loneliness crisis, the fertility crisis, polarization, degradation of trust in the social fabric, degradation in trust of institutions, dating woes, etc. the problems exist on both a small-scale level (lack of friends, social atomization) and a large-scale level (loss of third spaces, lack of community, etc.) - creativity/expression: with AI on the rise, i think we really need to establish as healthy of a relationship with it as possible before its role in society becomes entrenched. one of the most controversial takes i have is that many, many artists are too anti-AI. i totally understand why; there is sooo much slop out there now, and it represents a direct threat to many of their livelihoods. i absolutely do not want to live in a world where the majority of "art" is generated by minimal effort algorithms maximizing attention capture at the cost of all else. but i think a refusal to engage with, or even to understand on a basic level how this technology works, is a recipe for disaster, and only cedes this powerful technology to those who don't care about art, and will ultimately result in an uglier world - attention: this is very broad and i'm not really sure *exactly* how to define this, but we're clearly living in the attention economy now, and bad actors have seized it extraordinarily effectively. short-form slop, engagement bait, deliberately polarizing political news... the unfortunate reality is that it's easy to take advantage of our neural circuitry. "everyone will not just", as they say, but what is the solution then? top-down regulation? decentralized collective action? it's something we need to figure out there's probably more, but i think those are the top three, broadly defined. i would love to work on addressing any/all of these; i have several years of experience as software engineer, and have numerous creative projects across multiple fields that i've worked on over the years (see my personal website linked in my bio), so if you are doing something in any of those spaces and think i'd be a good fit to contribute, please don't hesitate to reach out!

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