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Almost everybody is sold some version of world destiny and that the best they can do is just get a seat.
- Computer Science & Software: the AI & ML revolution.
- Business: maybe, the status and wealth you can get from a consulting firm.
...etc
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- Computer Science & Software: the AI & ML revolution.
- Business: maybe, the status and wealth you can get from a consulting firm.
...etc
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Some people truly think because they are from:
- Certain university
- Have a certain passport
- Certain family
They& #39;re special and entitled to some of those "special seats".
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- Certain university
- Have a certain passport
- Certain family
They& #39;re special and entitled to some of those "special seats".
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The predications of how powerful AI will become turned out to be super wrong, for a long time now.
There& #39;s a huge amount of details hiding in the marketing of great AI advancements, but that& #39;s not the point now.
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There& #39;s a huge amount of details hiding in the marketing of great AI advancements, but that& #39;s not the point now.
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The point is this shit is not destiny, we have to create it.
it& #39;s not that there are some super smart with mega-mind size head people making all decisions of how life is going to be created.
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it& #39;s not that there are some super smart with mega-mind size head people making all decisions of how life is going to be created.
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They& #39;re human just like us, and they will this shit into existence, they spend their lifetimes into it, and create it, it& #39;s not a destiny by any means.
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Let& #39;s say you give a shit about ML, you have 1 Million professors and random people shouting in your ears:
"IT& #39;S THE FUTURE"
but, maybe, you don& #39;t give a shit, so what you gotta do?
Spend your life time in something you don& #39;t give a shit about?
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"IT& #39;S THE FUTURE"
but, maybe, you don& #39;t give a shit, so what you gotta do?
Spend your life time in something you don& #39;t give a shit about?
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Extend it to other parts of life, there& #39;s almost now an obligation for you to care about climate change, random new technology, bitcoin, blockchain, 5G, whatever trendy social issue the comes up.
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Small reminder: if you care brilliant, but if you don& #39;t, you don& #39;t NEED to buy into it.
The cars you drive, planes you fly in, phones you text with, all that shit was created by people, and not by those babbling, telling you what you "need" to care about.
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The cars you drive, planes you fly in, phones you text with, all that shit was created by people, and not by those babbling, telling you what you "need" to care about.
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Especially for academics, using their intelligence, they come up with the best sounding bullshit reasons to justify how everything in the past turned out to convince you how to spend your life, and ...
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how these big companies X, Y, Z, and some obscure few people control the world. So, for us, we are just the powerless peasants that at best can be their bean counters, or code monkeys.
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Without realizing that this bullshit is simply a story about the future, not the future.
Because who creates the future are people who plan it and work toward creating it, not couch intellectuals.
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Because who creates the future are people who plan it and work toward creating it, not couch intellectuals.
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"In academia, there is no difference between academia & the real world.
In the real world, there is."
- @nntaleb
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In the real world, there is."
- @nntaleb
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