And the best part, most people shallow read all of them and decide the details are needless till they are forced to deal with the details and then their understanding falls apart in front of them

And in other places/times, gulping down your emotions and being stoic is all that matters. Also no one likes a person who is inert all the time, so there's also prepping for that.

Plain and simple.

The way to grow is so subtle, so easy to miss, negligent from afar and in the long run catches up to you. I've noticed going from someone who used to sweat profusely while ordering food to able to go and talk to anybody. But it didn't come consciously, it came after a long long time of screw ups and medicore experiences and just exchanges I wouldn't have thought led anywhere. It definitely is non linear atleast from my experience. SO I'm curious to know what you folks think is the best way to grow

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Efficiency and the real world will eat them(comp scientists who think like this) up for breakfast

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Rule of thumb: if business folks drop a AI term that becomes the vogue lingo to use, be assured it is a fad that will meet it's doom in days to come

I don't think the bitter lesson is an absolute, but the current investment in agents is what you get when you ignore the bitter lesson

You're probably aware of things like hyping up your resume, hyping up your stories and the existence of people on the other side who know of this dog and pony show and continue to play along? What you're going through in my opinion is the AI age analogue of that: everyone probably uses them but the people who come on top are the people who are able to pretend they don't

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"Humanity is a just a small step in the giant staircase of intelligence" - Geoffrey Hinton

I think you miss the aspect of how insignificant existence is locally.

Sure the odds are astronomical but you weren't there to experience that measure in it's entirety i.e the the billions of years for you to experience the specialness of the blip. Also compare that with billions of people current existing at the same time as you who are also the product of this astronomial odds. The awe of the statement of the specialness of existence quickly fades away when you take the former statement into consideration

One could take this in the opposite way, we're so special that we are barely get to live long enough to experience reality for what it is and have to make do with such a tiny drop. The unfairness of it is misery inducing. We are so special that we get to appreciate this specialness only if we're lucky enough to be born in a first world country and to decent parents and born healthy. Aside from that we have spent a very significant time sleeping, pooping, dealing with BS, dealing with things out of our control etc etc

Existing is truly miserable if you aren't living in a first world country.

Man your statement is just hollow. The astronomical odds of existence is nothing celebrate by itself just as hope by itself is useless