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Re:Ask HN: Staying Focused on the Meaningful Stuff? on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:40PM (#42691816)
Something is inherently cool to me about solving deep mysteries, I guess.
Re:Ask HN: Staying Focused on the Meaningful Stuff? on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:43AM (#42681056)
Some parts of human intelligence can translate to machine intelligence (like how neurons inspired deep learning). Also, new ways of modeling and treating mental illness. Those are just the first two that come to mind.
Re:Ask HN: Staying Focused on the Meaningful Stuff? on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:59PM (#42676882)
I want to study human cognition (actually I already do), but there's no money in it. Yet, anyway.

Ask HN: Is it too much to work AND play with tech?

After years of coding on and off as a hobby, I'm starting to gain enough skill that it's tempting to apply for a job in tech. However, one major fear is that burnout from work will kill my motivation to follow my true passions. I have some very specific projects in mind (related to music production / sound synthesis, if anyone cares to know), and they mean a lot more to me than money ever will....

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If traits like "neuroticism", which would result from the very mental illnesses that psychotherapy promises to address, constitute personality, isn't it obvious that psychotherapy should change it? Why is anyone acting surprised?