My life was largely wasted, in the sense that my achievements are a fraction of what they would reasonably have been, if I hadn’t been constantly poor and an outsider.
One aspect of this is that I never played a role as a problem solver, or as an advocate of solving certain problems, on a scale anything like what was possible. And a significant reason for that, is that these were problems which the society around me found to be incomprehensible or impossible.
All that is still true. What’s different now, is that AI has arrived. AI might end humanity, incidentally putting an end to my situation along with everyone else’s. Or, someone might use AI to create the better world that I was always reaching for; so even though I was never able to contribute as I wished, we got there anyway.
From a human perspective, we are at a precipice of final change. But we haven’t crossed it yet. So for me, life is continuing in the same theme: struggling to stay afloat, and to inch ahead with purposes that I actually regard as urgent, and capable of yielding great things. Or struggling even just to remember them.
One question asked is whether we are spending more time with loved ones, given that time may be short. That’s certainly on my mind, but for me, time with loved ones actually coincides with opportunities to move forward on the goals, so it’s the same struggle.
My life was largely wasted, in the sense that my achievements are a fraction of what they would reasonably have been, if I hadn’t been constantly poor and an outsider.
One aspect of this is that I never played a role as a problem solver, or as an advocate of solving certain problems, on a scale anything like what was possible. And a significant reason for that, is that these were problems which the society around me found to be incomprehensible or impossible.
All that is still true. What’s different now, is that AI has arrived. AI might end humanity, incidentally putting an end to my situation along with everyone else’s. Or, someone might use AI to create the better world that I was always reaching for; so even though I was never able to contribute as I wished, we got there anyway.
From a human perspective, we are at a precipice of final change. But we haven’t crossed it yet. So for me, life is continuing in the same theme: struggling to stay afloat, and to inch ahead with purposes that I actually regard as urgent, and capable of yielding great things. Or struggling even just to remember them.
One question asked is whether we are spending more time with loved ones, given that time may be short. That’s certainly on my mind, but for me, time with loved ones actually coincides with opportunities to move forward on the goals, so it’s the same struggle.