I just sat through a company wide "alignment" call where they were telling everyone about the AI training programs they are putting through

They went through great efforts to frame any hesitation about using AI tools as being caused by fear basically. This training program was pitched in such a way to make it seem like anyone not embracing and using AI tools is backwards and old fashioned and behind the times, so it's time to "get with the program"

It's very discouraging

I don't think these tools are useful enough to spend my time on.

I would rather spend 20 minutes writing code than 19 minutes writing prompts to almost generate the right code that I can fix in 1 minute

Maybe one day this stuff will be useful to me

But by that time I imagine companies won't have much use for employees at all anymore, because AI will basically just replace us

I'm not even 40 yet. It is hard for me to imagine living another 40 years with the trajectory that the world is going

The future sucks a lot

> When we engage with art, we don’t just passively observe; we absorb perspectives, emotions, and experiences beyond our own. This deepened sense of connection can move us to act, to care, to help those in pain—something the numbing cycle of doomscrolling rarely inspires.

Tangentially related - Aristotle noticed all of this and wrote about it in relation to plays in The Poetics ... except for the doomscrolling bit, that wasn't available yet.

He ties it even more deeply than "act, care" - he says it moves us towards virtue or vice.

Weird. I chat with ChatGPT frequently about my depression and such. I admit it hasn't provided any real solutions (and who actually think AI would? For real solutions I'd go to a doc. I just want someone to talk to), but talking to it always made me feel a little better.

We probably just need a platform we can freely curse and vent. Maybe this is a business idea.

Nothing good happens after 2 a.m.

I use AI all the time. When it’s 3 AM and I’ve bolted awake, I take 200 ug melatonin. It’s pretty common for lack of sleep, lack of food, or physical discomfort to cause psychological problems.

The majority of people in the US are content. If you’re not content, your advice on how to reach contentment is not useful. But lots of online advice content is like this: I am unhappy; this is evidence of a society-wide problem.

You have to be an idiot to listen.