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I hope this is a joke and you really don't consider this as such.

It's in fact opening up too many opportunities to us humans. It's never been this easy to acquire information and accomplish things.

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It’s not a joke. My goals in life were all based around developing mastery for a meaningful purpose, and now there’s no need. What keeps me going is that at least I have some consumerist goals like understanding consciousness and physics or mathematics.

Computers can code for you, but it's not a reason to forget about your mastery goals.

The printing has been around for ages now, still people master calligraphy.

Anybody who thinks that way is just in doing so, and I can think that way for 50% of the time, but it’s difficult to maintain that without extrinsic motivators. When the computer can make a more compelling experience of any kind for another person I can’t help but feel my pursuits are not worthwhile.

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