notanothereric

Try googling the titke - the content is cross posted to other sites including a Youtube interview…

That being said, free self help psychology is worth about what you pay for it ..

I can attest to the roof mount solar panels both converting into electricity and as an air gap … huge win for me in the summer with the A/C on full blast and not paying a thing for it …

And here I thought Perdue was the biggest threat to birds in the US …

The NY Times had an article last week on the pervasive spread of eco-anxiety- the dread of the future and the doom no one can change the course of it … ironically they later had a guest opinion piece about ‘peak humanity’ driven only by reproduction rates of less than 2.1 per mating couple. The peak based on that was also between 2050-2080, at which point global populations begin and exponential crash as well. And if you want to add to your gloom a side of nuclear apocalypse, read ‘There is nowhere to hide’ from thebulletin.org …

We are already seeing population declines in various countries. We are seeing population collapse in many species worldwide. You don’t need to wait for methane releases or burning the last drop of petroleum… it is here.

The constructive thing to do is figure out what world do you want to live in … one where the abandoned houses and office buildings lay as tombstones to an opulent past of plentiful labor and an ever growing standard of living driven by technological advances ..

look around you and soak it all in - this is as good as it gets.

Now comes the hard part.

Wow. Living it up in ugly apartments eating 2 year old microwave dinners made by robots while lounging in our inflatable chairs …

Not knowing your geo, if in the US - one barrier is the engineering certification process which is above and beyond an engineering college degree. This applies to civil engineering at least if not other fields.

As a software engineer by training myself, personally I’d leverage your existing skills to apply to adjacent interesting fields as what doesn’t need software at this point. After you have a foothold in a new space you can pivot depending on interest from there. I think it is sort of hard at 40 to restart the process. - I’m older than you.

They should have subtitled this paper ‘Resistance is futile’.

Whether you should quit your job versus working in an organization guilty of ‘moving the goalposts’ planning are orthogonal decisions IMO.

You can theoretically still find your work meaningful even if your at-present leadership appears rudderless.

That is, unless you are a release engineer. Then I would quit.

If the author just proposed his new function neo_max() and quoted The Architect from The Matrix everyone here would be enjoying the April Fools Day joke for 2024…

“ Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.”

Hence ergo - you are a NaN. A divide-by-zero.

re: maps — I accumulated a lot if regional and national maps ( thank you AAA!!) but they do go out of date.

Major challenge with prepping is uninterrupted vigilance maintaining your supplies… which likely is an Amazon marketplace business in and of itself… lol.

I for one look forward to the post computational era … no monthly cloud storage fees, no data backup anxiety, no cookie tracking pop-ups to click ‘yes’ to … back to when I had to remember where I was driving and when the destination would close …

You beat me to the observation so my follow up question is - what does kernel.org look like after the sun sets on Linus … does it devolve into a collection of maintainers driven by petty grievances? Or accepting vs rejecting PRs and merges based on corporate influence and interests?

okay my prior observation about coming out of an ice age so naturally it will likely be warmer fell flat with the downvote so how about some realism?

The Earth doesn’t care, and the Earth always wins.

Look around. How many insects do you see or clean off your windshield now? How about butterflies? Frogs? Birds? By various quantitative indicators we are in a mass extinction event, for whatever cause. Accelerating temperatures? Excessive chemical use? Ecosystem destruction and disruption? Who knows.

Although more likely … there’s just too many humans, and those humans are living an unsustainable lifestyle provided by our technology.

It isn’t capitalism vs socialism or communism.. as the USSR certainly wasn’t an eco-friendly economy… nor is it developed vs emerging economies as technology appears to prop up enormous unsustainable human populations in developing countries…

So the vast majority of humanity will disappear if not lead to our collective extinction. The Earth will be different than the one we knew, and the collective decisions of humanity world-wide chose this outcome.

The only thing you can do is what our ancestors over millions of years have done … adapt, move and focus on your own personal survival and reproductive success…

Or just enjoy the view and don’t worry so much.

Considering we only exited the last ice age period some 11K years ago … this is sort of like weathermen crowing about the first 70 degree day in April … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_glaciation

Working for others generally causes burnout… working for yourself to set your own priorities and timelines is somewhat magical…

Funny … I thought once you had a critical mass of lidar enabled vehicles illuminating the same area, the lidars would blind each other … ignoring any juvenile delinquent with a laser pointer could play havoc …

Regarding taking the human out of the decision making loop, fully autonomous mode seems inevitable given the current Achilles heel of the most sophisticated UAVs - the requirement to maintain an uplink for command and control. Given our friendly fire experience with conventional forces… AI will likely have similar issues even in the best case scenarios.

I find the reaction to Chatbot et al somewhat like a prism to the thought of the people who pose the questions and how they interpret the results. GPT-3 is amazing in its ability to generate coherent grammar based on petabytes of ‘screenscraped’ Internet content… but looking for wisdom from it is somewhere between Magic 8 Ball and Ouija boards imo …

Assuming the typical 4D metrics of career development won’t resonate with you - skill development, title advancement, monetary growth and “follow your passions - then consider either what excited you when you were 10-12 years old OR look for an altruistic mission helping others leveraging your current skills …