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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
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I just wanted to reply to this small point quoted. Not to dismiss your feelings, but I don’t believe it’s bleak to live in the moment. That’s real. Today is literally the only thing that actually exists. Cliche return: tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
I’ve had to work hard at erasing 99% of my future expectations for myself and my kid. I was spending unsustainable amounts of time and stress worrying about the future, and I did so for a long time.
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If I can add to this... the original comment was that you're (Scrambler) living in the moment to not think about the future. This is half-awesome, and I commend you! Living in the past and future is basically a depression/anxiety cocktail.
What if we reframed it slightly to living in the moment is important because humans are comically terrible at predicting the future? I find it's critical to realize we're supposed to be worried all the time. That doesn't make it true, it just means your human brain is humaning like a MFer.
I totally get the fear about your kids. I've got one looking at entering the last quarter of his schooling which means we're looking at University/College options, and I admit fully I have zero idea what to recommend he do. The most important thing is we super don't know what's going to happen. AI could kill us all or provide us a level of abundance unheard of in human history. If the latter happens, those of us who worried too hard are going to look like total ass clowns. If the former happens... well... great news, the debate won't matter much.
For me it's helpful to realize that this planet and society has been rapidly exploding since I was a kid. That's not to say that we ignore all problems, but more to say we tend to figure it out. Things get better but it feels like they get worse. Sometimes they have to get worse first. The graph by and large though is moving up and to the right.