xherberta

Indeed. I wonder what happens as available training data shifts from purely human-generated (now) to largely AI-generated (soon). Is this an information analogue to the “gray goo” doomsday that an uncontrolled self-replicating nano device could cause?

>can it answer “I don’t know this” Such a fabulous question. This statement likely appears infrequently in the training data.

Perhaps an advanced form of life/intelligence that has survived contact with various others would be guided by some form of wisdom/disgust/caution/discretion. It would not be surprising if they noticed little clues like our rapid deforestation, rising temperatures, shrinking ice caps, nuclear detonations… which would make us seem slovenly or likely to have “poor friendship skills.”

Do you think you could manage the job if there were no expectations on you outside the job? Could your partner get on board with you needing some time with very few home responsibilities (as it's best for the family in the long run)?

Can you find access to nature? For me, a couple of unstructured hours getting bored in a truly natural setting feels almost like a vacation.

Karezza could help create a generous, non-transactional vibe at home and help you maintain creative energy.

Best wishes as you navigate this.

Now that both corporations and government are so big and intrusive that they're somewhere between a nuisance and prohibitive toward small-scale enterprise, we should at least think about ways to sic them on each other.

Your site doesn't provide enough info to compare the rate of harm. For mild ailments, which is what I assumed OP was speaking of, homeopathic treatments might have a lower rate of harm.

Iatrogenesis is a possibility with any health care. And, to give your link credit, homeopathy certainly sounds like a dangerous route for serious conditions.

- Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell (Among other achievements, he was dean of Yale Medical School and president of Sloan-Kettering. This collection of essays was published in 1974 and is absolutely prescient and fascinating - he offers profound thoughts on the nature of science, computing, and medicine that have stood the test of time astonishingly well.)

Kahneman and Harari also discussed how the shift to agriculture, while a great step forward for humanity as a collective group, was a major bummer for the individual. (Much more interesting and healthier to be a hunter-gatherer than a serf.)

"... [in the future, work no longer exists for] most of humanity... That mass of people cannot work, but they can still kill people..."

"and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless?

My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games as a solution for most"

On "one of the big problems with technology":

"It develops much faster than human society and human morality, and this creates a lot of tension. But, again, we can try and learn something from our previous experience with the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, that actually, you saw very rapid changes in society, not as fast as the changes in technology, but still, amazingly fast.

The most obvious example is the collapse of the family and of the intimate community, and their replacement by the state and the market."

Bacteria can do thousands or millions of generations more rapidly than we can tweak our nanotech.