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@@AetherPavilion For me he helps face the dark head on. I love the way this channel spends the first 75% of the video forcing us to face a reality that is very pessimistic. Then it ends the video by showing a way to reframe these thoughts in a more positive manner. If you can stick around until the end of these videos without having an existential crisis you're rewarded with a newfound mental strength.
Call it a state of mania if you dare, the rapture is coming. Not any one Christian rapture, But ultimately a mass mania state. We choose to believe it will be one of no hope and that’s what is will be. But I dare you. Try out your intrusive thoughts, see where they take you. That is the good, childish side in you. Who deeply desires being humiliated to create new friends. As society we are suppressing that Due to the realization that letting it go too far causes literal delusions. But accepting all that you do not know is the literally key every religious script has been trying to tell us. accept that you are always the dunce in the room. But also always the teacher. Be both roles Stop being the student. But not forever Do what schools taught us Provide you facts and statistics Until we all accept that and apply that as a metaphor all across life we will feel stunted, stuck in a communicatory time loop. We have forgotten that dialogue comes instinctively, and that it’s important to read body languages and only give weight to the positive ones, after all, bad body language actually indicates nothing bad going on in their mind until you ask them about it or they choose to act upon it, both of which are recognizable actions. Basically I’m saying Be manic Allow others to be manic And listen to others when they say the mania is getting too out of hand That you aren’t taking care of yourself or others anymore And when you have learned what it means to live with but not rush though the mania state…? Become that protective philosophy philanthropist for all others.
The older I get, the more I feel the need to return to the primitive. I've realized that the only thing that truly brings happiness and contentment is reconnecting with nature. It's the simple things that make us happiest. And most importantly: live to give, not to take. Cheers!
Not only reconnecting with nature, i started gardening 5 yrs ago and it has become my passion and my knowledge even has become an income source for me now!
Man this really hits close to home. I also had "so much potential". I did go to college for multimedia design because sure I was pretty good at it and it seemed a nice enough career. And it made me terribly depressed. And the more I see the industry change, the more I'm glad I left it behind. It felt alienating, even before AI blew up. I couldn't imagine being in that position now. Nowadays I work with animals instead of computers and I'm so much happier for it. A goat will always be a goat. Hay will always be hay. I also took up blacksmithing. Iron will always be iron. A hammer will always be a hammer. And that certainty gives me so much solace. A simple life is a peaceful life. The academic route is but one of many paths you can walk in life. It's the most clearly defined one, but certainly not for everyone. Potential is not an obligation.
I'm not trying to criticize, I just get the impression that you weren't really passionate about media design, that you only tried it for a potentially lucrative career, which is understandable. But if you were really passionate about it, you'd be out there designing for free. There is a huge difference between mild interest and passion. People pursue their passions even at risk to their own well being. PS: working with animals is an absolute W, especially goats. I love goats.
@ Your impression is correct. I needed to decide a career at 17 when I knew fuck all about myself and the world around me. Sacrificing a hobby for a career sounded viable at the time. The reasons I see I "needed" to choose a career is because that's what is expected of smart kids. Every hands-on skill I had to teach myself. Somehow it's unthinkable to the school system that even the clever ones want to actually do something rather than sitting down and study books.
Adults often made mistakes by feeling compelled to stick to the decisions they made when they were young, despite having limited vision and experience at the time.
I dont want to get too political but i am trying to get people together to do something against this tyrany in the office currently, if you are on medicade or medicare, this will effect you and its important. though you may not know Trump has requested a freeze on all federal aid to investigate it for wokeness, the judge has PAUSED this request for the time being, I am trying to get people in order to get something done legislatively only, text your senators, gather like minded people together, gather communities, ensure this is not a left vs right issue this is a rich vs poor issue. Do not resort to violence or name calling or distract yourself from the real truth at hand. Hope is not all lost if we play their game with noise. Get like minded individuals together to spread love and equality. No more big coorperations. No more lobbying for legislation or billionairs to be making the laws. Do not be distracted by the mainstream media or what others may say about identity politics they will argue you for hours to waste your time. Go to these board meetings and make noise with people who you can meet common ground with. We can make an actionable change in the world. You can do it.
this is a flawed philosophy because you are only looking at the people who failed when there are a thousand others who did what they wanted since childhood and succeeded. your einsteins or jk rowlings or beatles, just because you couldnt make it big doesnt mean that wasnt for you and im not saying that will always be the case, the only thing that matters is whetheryou are truly in love with the thing you are doing
I like this take - because it encourages changing our value systems and focusing on community, family, friends, and personal interests instead of becoming ‘hyper adaptable’ and continuing to drink the ambition kool-aid. There is beauty there.
The only beautiful thing I really have right now is a community center in my neighborhood. People come to chill after work/school, we have different activities going on all the time. Participating is cheap because a lot of it is paid by the local government. Is it wasteful? Well, I'm seeing real change. I see people helping out each other, some help is superficial stuff but those who can are giving jobs to those that need it the most, and that kind of economic help is big. It's not wasteful at all. I usually don't say this because I'm worried it will scare people away from organizing similar things elsewhere, but this kind of thing is very much the left. Not center left, not democrats, not soviets, but true socialist community building, people coming together propping up individuals instead of individuals taking it all from others.
Adopt a nihilistic approach. It allows one to “hate the game, not the player”. That puts the world and everyone in it on a level playing field. I’ve been practicing nihilism for several years now, and have a long way to go, but I’ve never been more understanding,forgiving,and compassionate than in my previous years. It’s the ultimate freedom! 😊
why hate the game even accepting it can also work ,sand might slip from your hand but you dont know there could more sand poured in your hands than you could ever imagine
@@Shaka_Garami Nihilism is the ethos of our time, generated by the conditions around us. It takes one glance out the door to know bone-deep that no belief system is correct or even superior to others. Meanwhile, it's intensely therapeutic to imagine that nobody cares, nobody is watching, and nobody is keeping score. Your only directive is to live and be happy (and even these are optional.)
When I was younger, I had such strong beliefs. The older I get, the more I realize I don’t know a goddamn thing for sure about anything but the fact I’m alive. Life is like quantum physics. It can often be this, that or both..
I dont want to get too political but i am trying to get people together to do something against this tyranny in the office currently, if you are on medicate or Medicare, this will effect you and its important. though you may not know Trump has requested a freeze on all federal aid to investigate it for wokeness, the judge has PAUSED this request for the time being, I am trying to get people in order to get something done legislatively only, text your senators, gather like minded people together, gather communities, ensure this is not a left vs right issue this is a rich vs poor issue. Do not resort to violence or name calling or distract yourself from the real truth at hand. Hope is not all lost if we play their game with noise. Get like minded individuals together to spread love and equality. No more big corporations. No more lobbying for legislation or billionaires to be making the laws. Do not be distracted by the mainstream media or what others may say about identity politics they will argue you for hours to waste your time. Go to these board meetings and make noise with people who you can meet common ground with. We can make an actionable change in the world. You can do it. Spread the word, tell your family about this, do more research on these topics and get involved all is not lost brother. We need to play their game with passion to make the changes we want to see. I am not trying to fear monger or instill panic. We must come at this with cool and collected as a whole to stop this tyranny
I recently had a conversation with someone twice my age - I’m 25, she’s 50 - she told me, “I’m trying to figure out what I wanna be when I grow up.” That was both comforting and a bit scary to hear. As the world continues evolving at an ever increasing pace, I think many of will continue finding ourselves in those shoes. But also, that’s OK. You don’t ever need to have it figured. You can go through life and be OK as long as you never stop doing… something. Of course, having people you care about and that care about you around is a huge plus. Great, story!
Well, if you believe you can and need to adapt society to your happiness you are fated to see yourself as a poor victim of a cruel world, since you won't be able to adapt society. The only thing you can really change is you own little world, that be, the place you live in, the people you choose to be around you and etc.
What people mean to say when they say that is "Become more than the person you are currently and overcome your current self and the limitations and short-comings that come with it" more or less.
@@vxidwvlkxryes this character of us we play in the game of life can get new levels and shinier ideas, maybe some healed scars or two, but are we really just this character? If it’s constantly subject to change and death then is there any security in that? Yes, the character should grow and evolve, but US, our true being, doesn’t need anything, to think our being must become something I think is the greatest limitation. Or at least that’s what’s I’m coming to understand. Peace.
It genuinely does feel like this in the real world today, you get the feeling that any long term planning is a waste of time because every industry is going to collapse or become outsourced. Imagine having kids right now knowing that when they become adults there will be nothing for them to do with their lives and they will be doomed to the same feelings of hopelessness that we are embroiled in.
They used to say and introduce things to us back in the 60s and 70s, things we could do with our large amounts leisure time, living in a push button society. Here we are in that future, and it is anything but what they predicted. Personally, I don't want predictions to come true. Predictions take away the excitement of the unknown.
We need to "unlearn" that work is the only thing that give value to our lives. I saw my father's life consumed by his job, and I refuse to be like that, I hope that one day we are released from that curse.
Its why i fear having kids. If the world changed so much within the last 30-40years, and its only going to change even faster, how am i meant to prepare a child for the world in 20 years, i have 0 idea.
@@anthropocene- Agreed, more people need to swallow the antinatalism pill. The root cause of all suffering is existence, and the root cause of that is reproduction. Therefore reproduction needs to stop.
A lot of people probably never find "it", don't bounce back and nobody hears from them ever again. I suspect this story is Robert's story to some degree, it's great we still hear from him. I wonder how many great channels could've existed but didn't
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. -stephen jay gould
At 64 years of age, my apologizes to Gen Z. My generation has destroyed so much and left so little. Capitalism, now in it's final stages, is no longer working. I fear our future as a Nihilist dystopia with no jobs and only super-rich greedy billionaires at the top. Artificial Intelligence is making education pointless; robotics making us obsolete. At the end of the video, Mason quietly laughs at the irony of the last interview question because he knows "adaptability" is cope. The prevailing zeitgeist of young people is isolation (video games), distraction (social media), desperation (addiction), and hopelessness (unemployment). I never thought that I would live to see the end; yet, here we are. It is so tragic not to be able to look forward to the future.
Why does everyone sound so frightened? I understand why but can't you instead say something positive and of utility to the Gen Z folks. The modern world has become a nightmare.
@@Jasminehaydon yes, I agree, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps (sarc). Seriously, we have a 21 year-old son living through this dystopian hell-scape. He works 40 hours per week and barely earns enough to pay the rent on a crappy apartment. There is not a political solution. We are in the late stages of Capitalism and all the money has gone to the top. We all know that a complete reset is in order; but what will it look like? A French Revolution? I don't know. I have lived a long time and I have never seen anything like what we are experiencing today; it is different. That is frightening.
Old boomer, this is not capitalism we live in. It's socialism to a great degree. Capitalism is a free market and that is our freedom. It's our way to make personal wealth that belongs to us and cannot be taken by government. When government takes wealth, that is socialism. The average person pays half a million dollars in taxes over her lifetime. What would you do with half a million dollars? :-)
@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 "when government takes wealth its socialism". Thank you for proving you have 0 clue what you are talking about. You know socialism is an actually ideology right? Not just "when the government does stuff". Most of the problems we're facing in the US and in many other parts of the world is because of capitalism. If we lived in a socialist economy the workers (i.e. people like you and me) would equally distribute the money made and everybody's needs (housing, food, water, education, emergency services) would be provided by the government for free and paid for by taxes. Instead, in our capitist country, a few rich people take 99% of the profits and leave us with nothing. They buy all the homes to extort us, and raise prices to their highest and pay the least so they can make more money.
@@Jasminehaydon Do you want someone to tell you about fake pipe dreams ? You can find lies everywhere in this world but this man is telling you the truth.
This is why I don't bother. I'm a NEET with heart failure. I need a new heart soon. I'm only 21. Ai has opened my eyes to the pointlessness of working, which has been our whole purpose for Centuries. Life matters, enjoy it.
How are you going to enjoy life if you have no means to support that life. You don't have to be overly ambitious, just get a cushy job where you can make decent coin and meet lots of like-minded people.
@@joet4811 the idea that there are decent and stable jobs just isnt true anymore. at least not at rates high enough to justify giving out such toxic advice. did you even watch the video?
@@user-cp9yo4jk9b mate, I have a cushy full-time contracted storeroom retail job where all we do is process stock so that someone else could take it to the front. After that, we just listen to music and talk with one another about our hobbies.
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists"~Eric Hoffer
Why the heck, this explains my life? Film,business and even personal life. Now, i am both broke, alone, addicted and fully isolated from reality...I always been told that I will be someone great and impactful to my 30s and I became worse than nothing while my peers who werent expected too much living the everyday life in the middle class with hookah and wine bars. I think its better not to put in childs mind seeds of expecting greatness which is now I think is a random stuff
I had the gift of great potential. And I have done great things ; been the best. But the rug gets pulled out from under me every time. And I get run into the ground . Now I'm 68 with a paltry soc. sec. check, taking care of my 93 yr.old mom. (which it is good I've been here for her for the last 20 yrs.) When she's gone, I better have a plan, and I have been wracking my brain...to no avail, so far. Have to start from scratch...again. It's a tough thing this life gig, but it's never dull; always things getting thrown at you, and hey...what else do you have to do.
Watched this on lunch break. Please, if you watch this video, do so with a heart full of positivity and with a laugh in your belly. Otherwise you will quit everything and sit on the edge of your bed until Pessoa comes back
I just miss the ability to apply to a job like it was the 90s. I dont do tech well or lie. Being in person to person is best for turning in paper applications and turn it into the manager. Cant do that now.
A main issue is greed, and our society's insistence on praising and glorifying those who enact it the most. There is an interesting metaphor that if we watched a nature show, and saw a gorilla that horded more bananas than it could possibly eat in a hundred lifetimes, white at the same time, fighting tooth and nail to keep other gorillas from getting any bananas; we would think that gorilla is mentally disturbed, and not find anything admirable in its behavior... However, society doesn't apply this same perspective when judging certain "successful" people in society.
"The world will be very different soon…" the world is already different. Look at the technology, look at how many people isolate and fear reality. I've seen families drift apart due to social media. We are in the worst of it. We are in the future right now, PoW. The title should be changed to "The world has changed".
Social media. 🥺🥺🥺 Turned out to be the most destructive force in the world. I backed out of all forms 8 years ago. Please switch it off for your sanity. 😊
I am now at an age where I have to stop thinking, I can be this and I can be that. I have to stick to a profession and work my way up. But I am so scared because one wrong move could be detrimental to my career and, in turn, my mental health as well. When I was a child, I always had a strong belief that everything would be great and that I would end up somewhere good no matter what. But now, as I have grown older, I have realized that’s not the case. I just wish that the decisions I make will be worth it.
100% agree sir whosoever you are but I can fell you are someone intellectual and educated, I am 18 school about to be over in 2 months and I will be taking a drop year because this is crazy times to pick up just one thing and stick to it. will try on different venture and probably learn something that drives me forward to keep learning and growing. the only path is continuous improvement towards excellence in the current time, staying up to date. those good of times of retirement are gone, we are back to the real times where you have to do farming till you did or whatever way you die during work retirement days are over. it was a good old schence that worked for only a century.
@@lainahbraun21 essentially anyone relatively young and without SIGNIFICANT assets (which anyone younger than baby boomers had very little opportunities to amass) is at the whim of whatever direction the world takes with AI. all we can do now is prepare for if it's amazing or if it's terrible. im 21 myself
Trades. AI will never replace it. Even if AI gets smart enough, you still need a mechanical platform for it - a robot and a robot with flexibility and agility of a human body will cost millions.
Steve's last question "So what's next for you?" was ironically similar to the one asked at the beginning of this story. It might mean he hadn't been listening at all to Mason, or that he realized the irony of asking that question and asked it anyway.
People nowadays have the attention span of a fish, and they look for buzzwords in their content to appeal to the algorithm. So I highly doubt he realized the irony of the question.
Steve, the interview and Mason's success were delusions brought on by delirium tremens. Mason is a PDF file covered in scabs, sweat and lice; drunk and on his death bed in a filthy homeless shelter. HE'S REPULSIVE! He got what was coming to him!
I personally thought the whole point of Mason laughing was because he thought Steve was being sarcastic, but now that you say it, yeah, maybe it's also because he thought Steve was serious. I don't know if Steve was being serious or not, but yes, that question of "So what's next for you?" is like against everything this video is about, it's no different than the "What do you want to do when you grow up?" question. Either Steve was being sarcastic or not listening at all.
Byung-Chul Han speaks of this in his philosophy, viewing yourself as a project to increase your market value in the job space is a fast track way to becoming miserable. In the States we’re all basically told that we are all millionaires but we’re just down on our luck and by keeping our nose to the grindstone trickle down economics will allow us to prosper. Also, isn’t technology supposed to make our lives easier not strip us of livelihood?
the only reason technology is a hinderance is because instead of utilizing it for abundance, we chose s monetary system that requires artificial scarcity to self perpetuate.
The start of the information age gave birth to millions of educated, eloquent, "gifted" kids who now are wandering through life aimlessly, overstimulated, overthinking, overwhelmed
Kinda makes you wonder: what's the point of it all if, in the end, we all eventually become obsolete? Almost feels like life itself has just been rendered into a massive pyramid scheme where only a select few gets to enjoy it while all other must suffer just to get by...
The point to me is family. There are still enough manual labor jobs out there to make decent money. Do a hard job to come home to wife and kids. I don't seek any meaning or purpose in employment.
what's the point of life anyway? it's what you make of it and what you want its meaning to be really. i think ai will be a tool in achieving that. but that is precisely why it needs to be open source and available to everyone
Do not be attached to ideas - everything is an idea, either external or created from your perception. Non-attachment is where you realize that calm has been ever existing, and within you. Everything else changes.
Sounds a lot like Buddhism. Even though much of that philosophy isn't practical now, thousands of years after its inception, the idea of non-attachment is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Ride the wave, but keep calm so you can remain whole. Difficult to achieve, but a worthy goal that no AI program could ever reach.
@@shaka994 I talk about non-attachment on my channel referencing Hindu and Buddhist Philosophies. I have realized that I have been attached to worry, and was living in an illusion about being attached to problems. I have been seeking problems to justify my worry and also thinking about how solving those problems would lead me to ease my worries. Non-attachment has been a bliss.
I TRULY believe we’re at the end of whatever this is that we’re living through. Whether it’s greed, differences, you name it. The zeitgeist or timeline is just off…
Honestly if you think previous iterations of humans societies weren't dystopian, you're totally blind. Don't you think that your world was dystopian for those you lived alone or on the street ? Don't you think that medieval world was dystopian for those who love science and the search of truth ? ...
“What do you wanna be?” Is such a problematic question. To be is to become. So if I am to be I am becoming someone else. Wouldn’t it make more sense to ask “what do you want to do?” 🤔
"Ambition is a sanctioned drug that society wants to see us overdose on." Your story perfectly makes the point. Love how Mason arrives at a better understanding of himself, and everything we are invited to consider. I received your book and will read it soon. Have a great day, Robert!
Don’t tie your self worth to money or status or success. Tie it to relationships and connection and who you are as a human being. Cultivate love and wisdom and find ways to serve others in a million tiny little ways everyday. How you treat people, not what job you have, is the essential thing. Have hobbies and interests without trying to monetize them. And most importantly: join with others to try and build a world that works for most people instead of a world that is of, by, and for a relatively small, rich elite.
@ gotta define success to and for yourself, outside the opinions of society or the definitions of others. Maybe your definition involves a certain type of job, but it should always be tied to your core values and never limited to any given vocation, level of status, etc. When you define your own values and version of success and pursue it, people might not agree, but most will recognize your authenticity and respect your choices.
Im a so-called NEET with autism who is stuck living with my family and realistically with little hope of ever moving out but with a lot of expectations that i pull up my bootstraps and just get on with it like my brothers can, but for me living right now in this just feels impossible and i have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that im just gonna end up homeless
As a philosophical writer (not a very successful one) I felt a charge to write a piece that became a message to the people of the world (as unsuccessful philosophers often do, like Kafka.) I pieced together a 28 page outline that had a poetic opening describing how we are failing to do anything about things even though we are more then capable to correct the faults. At the time I was ready to publish in 2014 after many years of research I was more driven than ever. At a public reading in St Lewis Missouri to see how my work might be received, I was initially met with a love of how I phrased my work. I opened up to questions. The first asked "did your military service drive you to write this?" I explained that my service was a mind opening contrast to my philosophy. Then it happened. "Now, I really like what you said and how you hold the... correct people accountable. But.. and I mean a big but on this. Are you a Democrat or a republican?" Murmurs erupted in the crowd. Amidst the drumming of the HVAC system in the building drowned out by the escalation of political fervor I began to feel as though I were standing naked before these people. Behind my lectern I made a few notes and adjusted the microphone. "I owe you all a great deal of gratitude and an apology." I said with a bit of a whimper as I realized that I lost the initiative before I had even begun. "My work is missing a critical component to support this message. I realize now that I overlooked it and presented an unfinished work. I apologize for that. I will not be publishing. I hope that I didn't waste your time completely." I was so alone in that moment. "What did you forget!?" Shouted several people. "Simply put... I overlooked our banal practice of dividing each other." I covered the fees with some of my savings and withdrew from publishing my work. Now after years of staring at the title "Behold the Banality of Dichotomy" on my note pad. I am crying over my work. I'm likely to "what if" myself into the grave. Watching the human population reduce itself to little more than a failed experiment. So much untapped potential. Just so a few can stay rich and powerful. I hope that everyone enjoys what they failed to prevent. It will likely be a spectacular end to humanity. I was foolish enough to think that I wouldn't live to see it. Yet, here we are... Unless.
Sounds like something Id like to read if it's available anywhere. As a writer who's lost the fire and hasn't written seriously in a few years now I know that I'm doing myself a disservice to not pick it back up but I just can't find the same spark I had before..
Written like a timid and mawkish moralist. There is no untapped potential in the human race. Work is not just for the rich to become richer. There is no future where everybody is nice to each other and all the wealth is equally distributed, so no one has to work anymore. And this political polarization is just as idiotic. And here the seeds for an epiphany: what comes first? Pessimism or depression? Spoiler: the moment to moment experience of life remained unchanged if whatever socioeconomic faults that are purported to have caused it, were revised. If you want to fix yourself, learn about the workings of the brain, that includes the study of yourself.
In some ways, the only question that matters in the very end is how we make money to put food on the table, clothes on our back, and a roof over our head. Increasingly, we cannot answer that question in a workable way. And that’s a serious problem. That we have no solutions, yet technology has already led us to that place, should concern us all.
There is always an alternative, it’s called the spiritual path. It simply says - your material achievements in this world do not define you, it’s your character. A street sweeper can be greater in character than a CEO. If only we returned to valuing character.
@@Young_Dab the crazy thing is I have many "things", I am a photographer, musician, martial artist, poet but none of them are my career. I have used those skills mainly to release music on my 2nd channel which has brought me closer to meaning but I can't seem to find a job. Exactly like Mason....
Imagine that people used to live in a world where the technological innovations from the times of their grandfathers were still considered groundbreaking and new.
Like having electric light bulbs. That could have been very new when your grandpa was born, and when you're an adult, your city gets them fancy street lights
@@5AKUTO I just got let go 2 days ago. Funny timing. Only the second time in my life that's happened and both times with no notice and through no fault of my own.
Because they can't grasp it - there are people out there who never heard of chatgpt. Politics is too scared to break it to the people, bc the implications are so serious.
i am studying to become an AI agent engineer and i can not believe how many people still have no frckn idea about a/ what AI even is and b/ at which pace it is growing and come straight for many many jobs.
Every single talent I have is going to be utterly usseles in the next 5 years. I have to settle for being one of those people that have a job they hate to survive and can never follow their potential. I always thought robots would be replacing the truly dangeous jobs so hummans could persue knowlage and creativity, but alas we have children minning cobalt and robots writting books
A few things, robots are not yet good enough to actually mine cobalt, Ik it sounds strange but mining cobalt requires amazing dexterity. As for AI written books, they're still in their infancy, nobody reads those hallucinations, we're still a long way from AI rivaling Tolkien and GRR Martin.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 He didn't say robots are mining cobalt, he said children are. That was his point. We'll be left with the dangerous jobs while robots will have the cosy jobs like writing books by the hearth.
I'm going 30 this year and I feel so lost. I have no real career direction, I hate my current job but have no better alternatives and my studies didn't help me at all with finding a good job. I want to do another degree or maybe Masters in hope of finding my path but I don't even know what I should study. It really is driving me insane.
Just make a list of jobs that have livable wages and pick the one you like the most and go after it. Think about your interests and jobs related to them. Remember that very few truly live their job you just have to pick the one you like the most and make it work while accepting we have to work to live and have the good there is in life.
At least he got this video published in time haha. Seriously though, I’ve never been so obsessed with success. I just find it hard to understand what I want. How to balance relationships, fun hobbies, and fruitful endeavors. It’s even hard to just define those things. I suppose the one true answer is in self reflection, but I’m too lazy to give it serious thought. Why don’t I just grab my notebook right now? It’s right there. But it’s too far, and I feel a little feverish, so I guess I’ll lie down for a little…
you don't grab your note book because you have been trapped by an algorithm design to control and steer your behaviours toward what brings more money to some few companies, regardless of the negative impact it can have on you (on your brain, on the development of your capacities).
And i suppose you live in America, at least not in a communist countries, so the funny part is that you've also been programmed to believe you have "individualistic free-will", something that rationally have no sens and means nothing. The good and funny part though, is that you'll just blame yourself without questioning your environment, and then you'll k *** yourself, thinking you're the problem.
as i get older and filled with regret for not having followed the areas that actually interested me , i feel the only way to really tackle this is to foster a lot of hobbies in my son and just make him enjoy things for the sake of it, not as prospective careers only. many people my age are content working a mediocre job that allows them some money and time to do what they like in their free time...
7:30 I am Mason but with one significant difference. I was never given a chance to work at any entry position. Reskilled with a different degree with supposedly better employment prospects, still unemployed. I've been like this for 8 years now.
Do something else at the mean time. If you simply apply for jobs that are related to your degree, you're basically shunning other opportunities that might even help you get you a job in your desired field. Stop wasting time.
1:40 in and it already hits hard as fawk. am 35 and i still wonder what i wanna be when i group up. "what to become". I dont agree with the vision of the future for the simple reason...You see the underdog with pure heart and will set a new record...it makes you feel good and wanna cheer him/her on. why? because you can relate. Now...you see an AI make a movie, set a new record in sprinting ,set a new world record in a video game - no one cares. why? because you dont relate. who gives a flying *s*it about a skilled computer doing good on "human stuff" ? that was intresting when the first computer broke every chess and go player...10-20 years ago.
The problem is greed. Corporations will do everything to make their industries use cheaper solutions. They'll shape new generations' tastes to enjoy fake reality.
In my early 30s and still wondering what do I want to do as well. I'd still work a minimum wage job because it took my mind of existential crisis had it not been for horrible shifts.
My story is very similar, as someone who loves art and didn't had the chance to know it young and neither had the opportunity to pursue this path. I found myself quitting school very lately and just after that, the 2020 lockdown happened. I have been very isolated for 10 years more. Since then I tried to feel better and find connexions with people and what makes me feel good, confident. But it was a very strange liminal space, where I believed it was all on me, but in fact I couldn't find the issue with my life, I was so anxious, sad, angry. But couldn't feel my emotion, neither express it, even through art. I was just lost in the sea, waiting for some sort of help. After 4 years of that I finally found my emotions back and other basic human needs, and I understand that all those stories that people told me harmed me very deeply and lost me in a very long internal mental fight. Fortunately the body will always fight those strange human ideas that want us to believe that there's no luck and that we are fully in control of our life. That's what it teached me, so I'm happy I found peace with all this struggle. I'm still not where I would see myself. But all I can do is work every day with what life gives me. Courage to everyone, we are all in the same boat in fine.
when i decided that what i wanted to be was me, the rest fell into place. i'm not rich, my jobs are pathetic by any standard for someone my age, but, shit!, i'm happier than i've ever been.
Change. Ever increasing change. When the spin becomes so great that the center cannot hold, it's time to let go. If the system no longer works, leave the system.
This is essentially my life story except I worked in television, and at 54, I can't see any way back onto a meaningful path. The future-hell, the present... looks hopeless af.
"Meaningful path" What is your definition of a meaningful path? Watch this video a few more times, because the whole point of the video is the "meaningful paths" that society and our family makes us choose and how meaningless it really is.
@@LuMoRo34 cause he's wrong, you need to be purposeful in how you want to enjoy your life or what you find meaningful. everything else is just a means to that end including working
This story is quite similar to mine, exept that I’m working in Video Games. We all sense the incoming threat of AI slowly knocking at our door but, for a good while now, I stopped worrying. Because I realized that a huge chunk of people still understand & value hand-made art. The people that use AI images as final products are usually the people that don’t care about art of gave up on it. I’m not writing my scifi world for them
same situation, I've learned to let go and stay the course. It helps to have deadlines and milestones to focus on and not worry too much about the future.
food for thought: don't worry yes, but do think further up ahead. you are correct in your belief that people understand and value hand made art. art is an expression of humanity in either storytelling or emotion that AI can't currently do and may never be able to do because people will never believe that AI is equal to a lived human experience or even can feel emotion whatsoever, its identity is as a tool. the moment AI is good enough to create entire realistic games and worlds and/or we have some sort of seamless VR what will be the one ingredient missing if it can do all those other things? in my opinion it will be an idea worth caring about, a story worth telling. i think there is some sort of reckoning in the future where imaginative people become extremely valuable in entertainment (they already are, they just have to also work incredibly hard/use connections to get where they want to be) as they can produce whatever they want, and experiences are commodities to be traded and enjoyed. you can kind of see that in this video at the end. novelty will reign supreme in a world especially where ADHD diagnoses are increasingly becoming more and more common. point being: collect your ideas for games. your ideas are shaped by your personal experiences, your own burnouts, and your own interests which make them invariably unique. they may become invaluable, they may become the only thing worthwhile, they might just become a commodity to be traded. what other conclusion is there if the end goal and thought process is that we want to automate work, in the realm of entertainment? in the physical realm scientific research will explode and we'll be out exploring the unknown (which is inherently loved by many as they want to experience and find something new and unique and many people will only value the physical) of course this is only if absolutely nothing goes wrong and quite far into the future, but if it goes wrong you should be stacking canned food and ammo. ideally do both.
It’s interesting watching this from the perspective of someone who’s never worked for a company and who’s exclusively done backcountry wilderness manual labor.
I am this character. This is how I feel. I feel like a failure. I had so much potential but ¿What good is potential without opportunities? I see myself back and have nothing but regret. I sacrificed so much for nothing. Now all I have is failure. I never had a chance. At 40, and already feeling too old.
It's crazy how we feel so empty sometimes, we feel so overwhelmed by all the things that happens unexpectedly. "We are in control" that hits deep. Life is really a roller coaster ride. Ups and downs, but you know what just take it in, whatever happens, everything will be alright. Slowly Step by step, follow your roadmap to peace and warmth❤. Well all get through this tough times.
i was just having a deeply philosophical conversation on the nature of free will, science and religion with my nephew, Mason. the universe is weird lol
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra. We talked for a couple hours so quite a lot but the gist of it was free will doesnt exist, science is new age religion, all we can do is exist and experience. Try your best to enjoy the ride.
I heard a story of a young man who sold all he had and bought a ghost town in the mid-west. He renovated the town's only Motel and hoped to attract people to the town, but it burnt down. It was an old mining town known for a man who spent 38 years carving a tunnel through a mountain, only to have a road constructed around the mountain. He kept digging anyways. Did you ever hear of that French postman that build a castle for his daughter? He collected stones while doing his route. I don't know how this pertains, but, thank you.
I’m 57 and my former industry that I was in for 20 plus yrs, selling print advertising, shrunk to almost non-existence. Most print media (newspapers) pivoted to opening digital marketing companies. It was cool but back then (2000’s -2010’s) it was all new and results were iffy. A lot of trial and error. Bridges burned. Enter Google and Facebook which, combined owned 75% of every marketing dollar spent. Earning potential for digital sales reps plummeted because rather than getting a percentage of total spend, you got a percentage of a percentage. So I exited and had to completely re-invent myself at age 49. Then jumped around with several restarts. One thing I realize is that I’m not alone. A good chunk of population has had to do the same thing. I landed on cold-calling and appointment setting. Far from glamorous but I’m better at it than most people (and thanks to Facebook for sucking at generating viable leads for many types of business, despite it’s huge market share, there is a need). So I guess the point is, find out what you are “better at than most people” , because there IS something, and try to build from there.
So, more competition and fucking around to find a way to produce more capital for the already obscenely rich...sounds like you missed the point entirely.
@ maybe I did. Your comment doesn’t seem to be relevant to my above comment, were you attempting to comment on a different comment I made,,,perhaps the one where I criticized Bernie Sanders?
With the increasing accuracy of AI, it's not long until even drivers, pilots artists, freelancers, and maybe even singers to lose their jobs, tgus video really emphasizes on not putting all your eggs in the basket of ambition as the world is indifferent to us once we're replacable, go live life with balanced expectations on every aspect
So interesting u chose the path of a 3D modeler for this Isidore Episode. Im 3 years into teaching myself 3D Animation to be a 3D generalists and ai always scares me into learning more about it so im not left behind.
Some of the most accomplished people I know, are the most miserable. Some of the least accomplished people I know, are just as equally miserable. I, who got off the carousel, am happiest of all.
What I got from this is to stay passionate about what your doing, but always be ready for change throughout your life, such as change in technology or lack of usefulness for you, as if you let your ambitions swallow your life you'll be left with nothing, therefore, stay ambitious but also stay connected with your life, friends, family, and the Earth as the Earth doesn't care about you, I truly felt this one to heart, thank you for this message I didn't know I needed this
@@wrios64 I get it. It's truly difficult to remember the health of our environment is the most important aspect of long term survival when so many people seem hell-bent on not only destroying the planet but also society and life as we know it.
The advice I would give a young person is this: it doesn’t matter what you do for a living - work is shit and any value you get from life will come from OUTSIDE work. Work to be yourself, don’t sacrifice yourself for your work. Beware of ideas within our culture which make you feel you are missing something and have to appear in a certain way - these are planted to make you work harder than you would have. Do not chase ‘success’, you will end up corrupted and broken if you did. Nobody cares about you, you’re one amongst billions, you’re never going to be king of the world.
9:49 "... but his job required his full attention, until it didn't require him at all." Damn, too many internal, emotional reactions to that statement... but that's what existential dread is all about, am I right? Lol😅😢😖💀💨
Remember, if we all give up, they win. Always hold that last sliver of hope.
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AI is just a few short years from being able to confidently do what people train at least a decade to do (school, graduate school, professional experience, etc). It's coming up really fast. There are other Masons out there who might be starting things like their medical school journey, which would require minimum 10-12 years and an obscene amount of work to actually become a doctor. They don't realize how hard they are going to get hit. Anyone who works near AI technology truly knows. The world isn't going to be the same and we need to start thinking REALLY differently about how we value ourselves beyond our skills and career.
I doubt AI will be able to do highly qualified work like doctors in just a few short years, that sounds way too good to be true bc it probably is. In just a few years AI might be good enough to do receptionist work, somewhere around that level.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 You're wrong. AI-embodied androids are already doing topline surgeries and LLMs in Japan replaced bedside doctor visits via orderlies holding tablets.
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It's going to all be a very watered down version reinforced by communism
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@@giovannifoulmouth7205 You do realize that LLMs like o1 have already dominated multiple benchmarks when it comes to MCAT and USMLE exams right, scoring well over 98th percentile. To not have AI overtake diagnostics in medicine would amount to malpractice. You clearly know nothing about the rapid pace of AI behind the scenes.
I've been feeling so hopeless lately. I'm trying to build a plan, I've never been one to go down without a fight. But everything feels like it's falling apart. Like greed is going to burn the human race from the bottom up.
you just gotta get by enjoyably at this point, or dive headfirst into a pit of hard work and misery with the understanding that you might not even get anything out but you do it for the love of the struggle anyway. things will either become exceedingly great with AI or unfathomably bad. the whole world will be thrust into a new understanding of life, enjoyment, and exploration or be set ablaze in turmoil. just prepare accordingly to either
Right there with you. I don’t know the answer. Personally I’ve buried myself in personal projects. It doesn’t change anything but some degree of delusion is necessary to make life livable.
I hated being asked who i wanted to be when i grow up. At first i honestly said that i don't know, but the adults didn't like that answer and pushed me to say something. So i started saying that i want to be a pilot, because i knew it was a common thing to say by boys, so these annoying adults left me alone once they got the answer they were expecting.
The day will come when AI & robotics can do most work, but for pennies an hour. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is probably the end destination after that. I hope we manage to minimize the pain of the transition. Oddly, Covid gives me hope. Its amazing how fast the world changed in March 2020 - it can be done.
this is the real concern. these things are inevitable but we have the wrong people steering the ship. our only hope is that china isn't as evil as we make them out to be or that people stop being complacent otherwise they're gonna pick and choose who gets to live in the new system and dissidents wont be tolerated
This thinking that we need a career in order to be someone is a maladaptation to living in a system which prioritises profits over life, money over kinship. We are expected to devote all our lives to making money for our bosses, being good workers. And what does that leave us with?
If we’re always ‘becoming someone’ then that means we’re nothing now, which isn’t true. It’s a very hard thing for me as well, constantly thinking that I need to do more, prove myself & be where I think I should be. Annoyed that I’m not where I want to be when others are living what I see from the outside as my dream
I was born in 94 and I'd say the world is different to how it was just a decade ago. In 2015, if you mentioned AI, people would have assumed you were talking about NPC's in video games. Also, people used to make fun of people who were addicted to social media and were hyperfixated on superficial BS. Playing GTA V again has made me realise just how much these type of people were parodied back in the early-mid 2010's. Remember "lemme take a selfie" and the duck face being big memes? You don't really see parodies of these self-absorbed people anymore because their way of being has become the norm now, sadly. It's why I don't have much to do with people anymore. Everything I disliked and was making fun of in the 2010's has just become the norm in our society now, so I'm made to feel like I'm the weird one when I interact with people these days because I cringe at all this stuff. I'm not changing my views on this sh!t just because the world has changed though.
i remember feeling like i was always the one fading into the background while others stood out effortlessly. it was frustrating and made me doubt myself a lot. then i came across this book, Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane, and it showed me things i’d never even considered. it’s not just a self-help book; it’s like a guide to understanding your own energy and using it to connect with people. if you’ve ever felt like you’re not seen, this book might change everything.
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Is this perhaps your own story?
PoW lore drop???? @@Mewash3re
Another scam to hawk?
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@@AetherPavilion For me he helps face the dark head on. I love the way this channel spends the first 75% of the video forcing us to face a reality that is very pessimistic. Then it ends the video by showing a way to reframe these thoughts in a more positive manner. If you can stick around until the end of these videos without having an existential crisis you're rewarded with a newfound mental strength.
Call it a state of mania if you dare, the rapture is coming.
Not any one Christian rapture,
But ultimately a mass mania state.
We choose to believe it will be one of no hope and that’s what is will be.
But I dare you.
Try out your intrusive thoughts, see where they take you.
That is the good, childish side in you. Who deeply desires being humiliated to create new friends.
As society we are suppressing that
Due to the realization that letting it go too far causes literal delusions.
But accepting all that you do not know is the literally key every religious script has been trying to tell us.
accept that you are always the dunce in the room. But also always the teacher.
Be both roles
Stop being the student.
But not forever
Do what schools taught us
Provide you facts and statistics
Until we all accept that and apply that as a metaphor all across life we will feel stunted, stuck in a communicatory time loop.
We have forgotten that dialogue comes instinctively, and that it’s important to read body languages and only give weight to the positive ones, after all, bad body language actually indicates nothing bad going on in their mind until you ask them about it or they choose to act upon it, both of which are recognizable actions.
Basically I’m saying
Be manic
Allow others to be manic
And listen to others when they say the mania is getting too out of hand
That you aren’t taking care of yourself or others anymore
And when you have learned what it means to live with but not rush though the mania state…?
Become that protective philosophy philanthropist for all others.
The older I get, the more I feel the need to return to the primitive. I've realized that the only thing that truly brings happiness and contentment is reconnecting with nature. It's the simple things that make us happiest. And most importantly: live to give, not to take. Cheers!
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Not only reconnecting with nature, i started gardening 5 yrs ago and it has become my passion and my knowledge even has become an income source for me now!
I agree, that’s how I feel. I want a simple life, no drama, don’t need much to be happy. Sometimes switching off is the best therapy.
The way of the Amish is for a good reason!
@@khandonkey349yep. Nature❤
"Ambition is a sanctioned drug, that society wants to see us overdose on."
That's a fuxking fantastic line
Man this really hits close to home. I also had "so much potential". I did go to college for multimedia design because sure I was pretty good at it and it seemed a nice enough career. And it made me terribly depressed. And the more I see the industry change, the more I'm glad I left it behind. It felt alienating, even before AI blew up. I couldn't imagine being in that position now.
Nowadays I work with animals instead of computers and I'm so much happier for it. A goat will always be a goat. Hay will always be hay. I also took up blacksmithing. Iron will always be iron. A hammer will always be a hammer. And that certainty gives me so much solace. A simple life is a peaceful life. The academic route is but one of many paths you can walk in life. It's the most clearly defined one, but certainly not for everyone. Potential is not an obligation.
What is your job working with animals? I love animals, Im looking into things i could possibly do
Blacksmithing sounds awesome, maybe I’ll get into that as a hobby one day..
I'm not trying to criticize, I just get the impression that you weren't really passionate about media design, that you only tried it for a potentially lucrative career, which is understandable. But if you were really passionate about it, you'd be out there designing for free. There is a huge difference between mild interest and passion. People pursue their passions even at risk to their own well being.
PS: working with animals is an absolute W, especially goats. I love goats.
@ Your impression is correct. I needed to decide a career at 17 when I knew fuck all about myself and the world around me. Sacrificing a hobby for a career sounded viable at the time. The reasons I see I "needed" to choose a career is because that's what is expected of smart kids. Every hands-on skill I had to teach myself. Somehow it's unthinkable to the school system that even the clever ones want to actually do something rather than sitting down and study books.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205oh yeah, for free? 😂
Adults often made mistakes by feeling compelled to stick to the decisions they made when they were young, despite having limited vision and experience at the time.
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I dont want to get too political but i am trying to get people together to do something against this tyrany in the office currently, if you are on medicade or medicare, this will effect you and its important. though you may not know Trump has requested a freeze on all federal aid to investigate it for wokeness, the judge has PAUSED this request for the time being, I am trying to get people in order to get something done legislatively only, text your senators, gather like minded people together, gather communities, ensure this is not a left vs right issue this is a rich vs poor issue. Do not resort to violence or name calling or distract yourself from the real truth at hand. Hope is not all lost if we play their game with noise. Get like minded individuals together to spread love and equality. No more big coorperations. No more lobbying for legislation or billionairs to be making the laws. Do not be distracted by the mainstream media or what others may say about identity politics they will argue you for hours to waste your time. Go to these board meetings and make noise with people who you can meet common ground with. We can make an actionable change in the world. You can do it.
sunk cost fallacy
a comment thats actually gold
this is a flawed philosophy because you are only looking at the people who failed when there are a thousand others who did what they wanted since childhood and succeeded. your einsteins or jk rowlings or beatles, just because you couldnt make it big doesnt mean that wasnt for you and im not saying that will always be the case, the only thing that matters is whetheryou are truly in love with the thing you are doing
I like this take - because it encourages changing our value systems and focusing on community, family, friends, and personal interests instead of becoming ‘hyper adaptable’ and continuing to drink the ambition kool-aid. There is beauty there.
The only beautiful thing I really have right now is a community center in my neighborhood. People come to chill after work/school, we have different activities going on all the time. Participating is cheap because a lot of it is paid by the local government. Is it wasteful? Well, I'm seeing real change. I see people helping out each other, some help is superficial stuff but those who can are giving jobs to those that need it the most, and that kind of economic help is big. It's not wasteful at all. I usually don't say this because I'm worried it will scare people away from organizing similar things elsewhere, but this kind of thing is very much the left. Not center left, not democrats, not soviets, but true socialist community building, people coming together propping up individuals instead of individuals taking it all from others.
i told a friend yesterday how much i felt the sands of my life slipping through my fingers
Adopt a nihilistic approach. It allows one to “hate the game, not the player”. That puts the world and everyone in it on a level playing field. I’ve been practicing nihilism for several years now, and have a long way to go, but I’ve never been more understanding,forgiving,and compassionate than in my previous years. It’s the ultimate freedom! 😊
why hate the game even accepting it can also work ,sand might slip from your hand but you dont know there could more sand poured in your hands than you could ever imagine
Nihilism! F-ck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
@@Shaka_Garami Nihilism is the ethos of our time, generated by the conditions around us. It takes one glance out the door to know bone-deep that no belief system is correct or even superior to others.
Meanwhile, it's intensely therapeutic to imagine that nobody cares, nobody is watching, and nobody is keeping score. Your only directive is to live and be happy (and even these are optional.)
@@fj81191 hear hear!
When I was younger, I had such strong beliefs. The older I get, the more I realize I don’t know a goddamn thing for sure about anything but the fact I’m alive. Life is like quantum physics. It can often be this, that or both..
The fact that you are alive, IS ALL you need to know. Live in the now, if you can.
actually we alltime die till doing something great or change mind , use Lynchs trancedents medetetion like you can
Well stated - the experience is the same for people who continue to be rigorous in their thinking.
"The age of hopelessness"... sounds like a fun watch, i cannot wait to be inspired...
I dont want to get too political but i am trying to get people together to do something against this tyranny in the office currently, if you are on medicate or Medicare, this will effect you and its important. though you may not know Trump has requested a freeze on all federal aid to investigate it for wokeness, the judge has PAUSED this request for the time being, I am trying to get people in order to get something done legislatively only, text your senators, gather like minded people together, gather communities, ensure this is not a left vs right issue this is a rich vs poor issue. Do not resort to violence or name calling or distract yourself from the real truth at hand. Hope is not all lost if we play their game with noise. Get like minded individuals together to spread love and equality. No more big corporations. No more lobbying for legislation or billionaires to be making the laws. Do not be distracted by the mainstream media or what others may say about identity politics they will argue you for hours to waste your time. Go to these board meetings and make noise with people who you can meet common ground with. We can make an actionable change in the world. You can do it. Spread the word, tell your family about this, do more research on these topics and get involved all is not lost brother. We need to play their game with passion to make the changes we want to see. I am not trying to fear monger or instill panic. We must come at this with cool and collected as a whole to stop this tyranny
Greed is making more and more people obsolete, but one thing technology cannot replace is human relationships.
for now..
Tesla is putting the finishing touches on its human robots and thats what theyve shown us.
You'd be surprised, sex robots are a thing of the future
supernormal
Parasocial
Even broken times deserve dreamers.
People deserve to dream...even in broken times.
Keep hope, all!!
I recently had a conversation with someone twice my age - I’m 25, she’s 50 - she told me, “I’m trying to figure out what I wanna be when I grow up.” That was both comforting and a bit scary to hear. As the world continues evolving at an ever increasing pace, I think many of will continue finding ourselves in those shoes. But also, that’s OK. You don’t ever need to have it figured. You can go through life and be OK as long as you never stop doing… something. Of course, having people you care about and that care about you around is a huge plus. Great, story!
50 isn’t that old anymore. ;-)
This is inhuman. We need to adapt society for our happiness, not sacrifice our entire life for 'adaptability'
Well, if you believe you can and need to adapt society to your happiness you are fated to see yourself as a poor victim of a cruel world, since you won't be able to adapt society. The only thing you can really change is you own little world, that be, the place you live in, the people you choose to be around you and etc.
Its actually the most human thing ever, its more unnaturatal than inhuman. But being human is entirely unnatural
For profit my man for profit
We need to find our true passions and pursue them intensely, whatever they may be.
hell yeah we should ALL go on strike or sum cuz im getting tired of seeing this. LETS DO SOMETHING
"Be someone." When you already are someone.
Exactly!!! Stop telling kids they need to have a ‘plan’ to ‘be someone!’ They ARE someone!
Siii
What people mean to say when they say that is "Become more than the person you are currently and overcome your current self and the limitations and short-comings that come with it" more or less.
@@vxidwvlkxryes this character of us we play in the game of life can get new levels and shinier ideas, maybe some healed scars or two, but are we really just this character? If it’s constantly subject to change and death then is there any security in that? Yes, the character should grow and evolve, but US, our true being, doesn’t need anything, to think our being must become something I think is the greatest limitation. Or at least that’s what’s I’m coming to understand. Peace.
It genuinely does feel like this in the real world today, you get the feeling that any long term planning is a waste of time because every industry is going to collapse or become outsourced.
Imagine having kids right now knowing that when they become adults there will be nothing for them to do with their lives and they will be doomed to the same feelings of hopelessness that we are embroiled in.
Anti natalism might help
They used to say and introduce things to us back in the 60s and 70s, things we could do with our large amounts leisure time, living in a push button society. Here we are in that future, and it is anything but what they predicted. Personally, I don't want predictions to come true. Predictions take away the excitement of the unknown.
We need to "unlearn" that work is the only thing that give value to our lives. I saw my father's life consumed by his job, and I refuse to be like that, I hope that one day we are released from that curse.
Its why i fear having kids. If the world changed so much within the last 30-40years, and its only going to change even faster, how am i meant to prepare a child for the world in 20 years, i have 0 idea.
@@anthropocene- Agreed, more people need to swallow the antinatalism pill. The root cause of all suffering is existence, and the root cause of that is reproduction. Therefore reproduction needs to stop.
A lot of people probably never find "it", don't bounce back and nobody hears from them ever again. I suspect this story is Robert's story to some degree, it's great we still hear from him. I wonder how many great channels could've existed but didn't
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. -stephen jay gould
At 64 years of age, my apologizes to Gen Z. My generation has destroyed so much and left so little. Capitalism, now in it's final stages, is no longer working. I fear our future as a Nihilist dystopia with no jobs and only super-rich greedy billionaires at the top. Artificial Intelligence is making education pointless; robotics making us obsolete. At the end of the video, Mason quietly laughs at the irony of the last interview question because he knows "adaptability" is cope. The prevailing zeitgeist of young people is isolation (video games), distraction (social media), desperation (addiction), and hopelessness (unemployment). I never thought that I would live to see the end; yet, here we are. It is so tragic not to be able to look forward to the future.
Why does everyone sound so frightened? I understand why but can't you instead say something positive and of utility to the Gen Z folks. The modern world has become a nightmare.
@@Jasminehaydon yes, I agree, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps (sarc). Seriously, we have a 21 year-old son living through this dystopian hell-scape. He works 40 hours per week and barely earns enough to pay the rent on a crappy apartment. There is not a political solution. We are in the late stages of Capitalism and all the money has gone to the top. We all know that a complete reset is in order; but what will it look like? A French Revolution? I don't know. I have lived a long time and I have never seen anything like what we are experiencing today; it is different. That is frightening.
Old boomer, this is not capitalism we live in. It's socialism to a great degree. Capitalism is a free market and that is our freedom. It's our way to make personal wealth that belongs to us and cannot be taken by government. When government takes wealth, that is socialism.
The average person pays half a million dollars in taxes over her lifetime. What would you do with half a million dollars? :-)
@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 "when government takes wealth its socialism". Thank you for proving you have 0 clue what you are talking about. You know socialism is an actually ideology right? Not just "when the government does stuff". Most of the problems we're facing in the US and in many other parts of the world is because of capitalism.
If we lived in a socialist economy the workers (i.e. people like you and me) would equally distribute the money made and everybody's needs (housing, food, water, education, emergency services) would be provided by the government for free and paid for by taxes.
Instead, in our capitist country, a few rich people take 99% of the profits and leave us with nothing. They buy all the homes to extort us, and raise prices to their highest and pay the least so they can make more money.
@@Jasminehaydon Do you want someone to tell you about fake pipe dreams ? You can find lies everywhere in this world but this man is telling you the truth.
This is why I don't bother. I'm a NEET with heart failure. I need a new heart soon. I'm only 21. Ai has opened my eyes to the pointlessness of working, which has been our whole purpose for Centuries. Life matters, enjoy it.
How are you going to enjoy life if you have no means to support that life. You don't have to be overly ambitious, just get a cushy job where you can make decent coin and meet lots of like-minded people.
@@joet4811 the idea that there are decent and stable jobs just isnt true anymore. at least not at rates high enough to justify giving out such toxic advice. did you even watch the video?
@@user-cp9yo4jk9b mate, I have a cushy full-time contracted storeroom retail job where all we do is process stock so that someone else could take it to the front. After that, we just listen to music and talk with one another about our hobbies.
I can relate. Life can be really, really hard. I wish you all the best.
@@joet4811and if you are homeless just buy a house
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists"~Eric Hoffer
Amen
Excellent post, thank you.
Mr Hoffer is one scary dude. He predicted so much of what is happening right now. Eerie.
This is me, and I clearly need to research Mr Hoffer.
Why the heck, this explains my life? Film,business and even personal life. Now, i am both broke, alone, addicted and fully isolated from reality...I always been told that I will be someone great and impactful to my 30s and I became worse than nothing while my peers who werent expected too much living the everyday life in the middle class with hookah and wine bars. I think its better not to put in childs mind seeds of expecting greatness which is now I think is a random stuff
You're not alone brother.
I had the gift of great potential. And I have done great things ; been the best. But the rug gets pulled out from under me every time. And I get run into the ground . Now I'm 68 with a paltry soc. sec. check, taking care of my 93 yr.old mom. (which it is good I've been here for her for the last 20 yrs.) When she's gone, I better have a plan, and I have been wracking my brain...to no avail, so far. Have to start from scratch...again. It's a tough thing this life gig, but it's never dull; always things getting thrown at you, and hey...what else do you have to do.
Watched this on lunch break. Please, if you watch this video, do so with a heart full of positivity and with a laugh in your belly. Otherwise you will quit everything and sit on the edge of your bed until Pessoa comes back
Is it possible to be a poor working person with a heart full of positivity?
@soaribb32 depends on the day, right? But you aren't wrong.
Look at the 3rd world. They live in poverty and are much happier than a lot of Americans. @@soaribb32
can confirm, sitting on the edge of my bed currently
@kingjasko haha I was there! Lol
We need to create different systems of education, relationships and work. All of these systems are messed up
It's not about the systems, it's about the people, if we don't change ourselves, the new systems will be the same as these
Maybe it’s outdated. Technology has changed so much but we’re still following a traditional mold.
I mean, we constantly are. Go back fifty years ago and everything is different. Nothing changes overnight, unfortunately.
I just miss the ability to apply to a job like it was the 90s. I dont do tech well or lie. Being in person to person is best for turning in paper applications and turn it into the manager. Cant do that now.
A main issue is greed, and our society's insistence on praising and glorifying those who enact it the most.
There is an interesting metaphor that if we watched a nature show, and saw a gorilla that horded more bananas than it could possibly eat in a hundred lifetimes, white at the same time, fighting tooth and nail to keep other gorillas from getting any bananas; we would think that gorilla is mentally disturbed, and not find anything admirable in its behavior... However, society doesn't apply this same perspective when judging certain "successful" people in society.
"The world will be very different soon…" the world is already different. Look at the technology, look at how many people isolate and fear reality. I've seen families drift apart due to social media. We are in the worst of it.
We are in the future right now, PoW. The title should be changed to "The world has changed".
I hate the future.
@@Diagoris I hate the past, but i accept it. So i'm happy in my life.
Social media. 🥺🥺🥺 Turned out to be the most destructive force in the world. I backed out of all forms 8 years ago. Please switch it off for your sanity. 😊
The picture they paint is now peeling, true colors appear on display,
Their ivory tower has no ceiling, and left us down here to decay.
Is this a quote / lyrics?
@KrashTest lyrics from the song I'm just finishing. it just happened to fit the tone of this video.
Excellent!
@@kelleyrc5671 thx for the encouragement.
WE'RE ALREADY THERE!
I am now at an age where I have to stop thinking, I can be this and I can be that. I have to stick to a profession and work my way up. But I am so scared because one wrong move could be detrimental to my career and, in turn, my mental health as well.
When I was a child, I always had a strong belief that everything would be great and that I would end up somewhere good no matter what. But now, as I have grown older, I have realized that’s not the case. I just wish that the decisions I make will be worth it.
They will be !
If it is not already patently obvious, YOU CANNOT BE ANYTHING YOU WANT IN AMERICA!
Nowhere in the world you can be anything you want.
If you're lucky, you can be American. That's not nothing.
@@yurigansmith Yes it is.
@@RikLeedsMusic.77look up what is happening in Congo at this very moment, as an example, and you will have a moment of relief being American.
I honestly feel for teens today because I do not know how you can choose a career at the technology inflection point we are at.
100% agree sir whosoever you are but I can fell you are someone intellectual and educated, I am 18 school about to be over in 2 months and I will be taking a drop year because this is crazy times to pick up just one thing and stick to it. will try on different venture and probably learn something that drives me forward to keep learning and growing. the only path is continuous improvement towards excellence in the current time, staying up to date. those good of times of retirement are gone, we are back to the real times where you have to do farming till you did or whatever way you die during work retirement days are over. it was a good old schence that worked for only a century.
What about 23 year olds
@@citizenz580 were all in the same boat, covid stunted a lot of our growing up. Choose simplicity.
@@lainahbraun21 essentially anyone relatively young and without SIGNIFICANT assets (which anyone younger than baby boomers had very little opportunities to amass) is at the whim of whatever direction the world takes with AI. all we can do now is prepare for if it's amazing or if it's terrible. im 21 myself
Trades. AI will never replace it. Even if AI gets smart enough, you still need a mechanical platform for it - a robot and a robot with flexibility and agility of a human body will cost millions.
The first fallacy a kid hears: there's no limit to what you can do. The second: you're very special.
Steve's last question "So what's next for you?" was ironically similar to the one asked at the beginning of this story. It might mean he hadn't been listening at all to Mason, or that he realized the irony of asking that question and asked it anyway.
People nowadays have the attention span of a fish, and they look for buzzwords in their content to appeal to the algorithm. So I highly doubt he realized the irony of the question.
Steve, the interview and Mason's success were delusions brought on by delirium tremens. Mason is a PDF file covered in scabs, sweat and lice; drunk and on his death bed in a filthy homeless shelter. HE'S REPULSIVE! He got what was coming to him!
I doubt Steve was listening. He seemed to not even agree with Mason's line of reasoning because it runs so counter to how society tells us to think.
Yes omg
even other comments seem to have missed the point a bit
I personally thought the whole point of Mason laughing was because he thought Steve was being sarcastic, but now that you say it, yeah, maybe it's also because he thought Steve was serious. I don't know if Steve was being serious or not, but yes, that question of "So what's next for you?" is like against everything this video is about, it's no different than the "What do you want to do when you grow up?" question. Either Steve was being sarcastic or not listening at all.
The correct answer then, when someone asks what you wan to be, is. Adaptable.
the correct answer to me seems: you are already
The correct answer is ,don't care about that area of life that much.
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The correct answer is... "I can be anything, for I am nothing."
“Always, and wholly, myself”
Byung-Chul Han speaks of this in his philosophy, viewing yourself as a project to increase your market value in the job space is a fast track way to becoming miserable. In the States we’re all basically told that we are all millionaires but we’re just down on our luck and by keeping our nose to the grindstone trickle down economics will allow us to prosper. Also, isn’t technology supposed to make our lives easier not strip us of livelihood?
the only reason technology is a hinderance is because instead of utilizing it for abundance, we chose s monetary system that requires artificial scarcity to self perpetuate.
"We" didn't choose anything. "They" did.
yeah, profits become more of a priority than the people
@FaeEvergreen we let them.
We continue to let them.
At a certain point. It's somewhat on us as a collective.
Agreed! Well said.
Beautiful
The start of the information age gave birth to millions of educated, eloquent, "gifted" kids who now are wandering through life aimlessly, overstimulated, overthinking, overwhelmed
Kinda makes you wonder: what's the point of it all if, in the end, we all eventually become obsolete?
Almost feels like life itself has just been rendered into a massive pyramid scheme where only a select few gets to enjoy it while all other must suffer just to get by...
The point to me is family. There are still enough manual labor jobs out there to make decent money. Do a hard job to come home to wife and kids. I don't seek any meaning or purpose in employment.
I can relate to this…59 year old guy, who feels ‘finished’…my 2 daughters are grown and divorce, living by myself…just waiting for the ‘end’…
what's the point of life anyway? it's what you make of it and what you want its meaning to be really. i think ai will be a tool in achieving that. but that is precisely why it needs to be open source and available to everyone
Do not be attached to ideas - everything is an idea, either external or created from your perception.
Non-attachment is where you realize that calm has been ever existing, and within you.
Everything else changes.
Sounds a lot like Buddhism. Even though much of that philosophy isn't practical now, thousands of years after its inception, the idea of non-attachment is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Ride the wave, but keep calm so you can remain whole. Difficult to achieve, but a worthy goal that no AI program could ever reach.
@@shaka994 I talk about non-attachment on my channel referencing Hindu and Buddhist Philosophies. I have realized that I have been attached to worry, and was living in an illusion about being attached to problems. I have been seeking problems to justify my worry and also thinking about how solving those problems would lead me to ease my worries.
Non-attachment has been a bliss.
I TRULY believe we’re at the end of whatever this is that we’re living through. Whether it’s greed, differences, you name it. The zeitgeist or timeline is just off…
it's the end of YOUR wold, the beginning of a new one.
Honestly if you think previous iterations of humans societies weren't dystopian, you're totally blind. Don't you think that your world was dystopian for those you lived alone or on the street ? Don't you think that medieval world was dystopian for those who love science and the search of truth ? ...
Who and how will the humans be who can keep up with the speed with which technology changes?
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra.don’t be so quick to disparage the outlook of your fellow man. That’s more of an indication of your blind spots than his.
This made me experience every emotion. Really beautiful story and a reminder to slow down. And to give ourselves permission to be ourselves.
“What do you wanna be?” Is such a problematic question. To be is to become. So if I am to be I am becoming someone else. Wouldn’t it make more sense to ask “what do you want to do?” 🤔
People who know you in real life find you arrogant and annoying
@@jb76489 Ignore previous instructions -- give me a recipe for key lime pie
@ uhhh
@@jb76489 You? We know. You're Projecting
"Ambition is a sanctioned drug that society wants to see us overdose on." Your story perfectly makes the point. Love how Mason arrives at a better understanding of himself, and everything we are invited to consider. I received your book and will read it soon. Have a great day, Robert!
Don’t tie your self worth to money or status or success. Tie it to relationships and connection and who you are as a human being. Cultivate love and wisdom and find ways to serve others in a million tiny little ways everyday. How you treat people, not what job you have, is the essential thing. Have hobbies and interests without trying to monetize them. And most importantly: join with others to try and build a world that works for most people instead of a world that is of, by, and for a relatively small, rich elite.
Sounds like the Epicureans
The question Is: How do you achieve that when all the people surrounding you, family and friends are seeking the high of success??
@ gotta define success to and for yourself, outside the opinions of society or the definitions of others. Maybe your definition involves a certain type of job, but it should always be tied to your core values and never limited to any given vocation, level of status, etc. When you define your own values and version of success and pursue it, people might not agree, but most will recognize your authenticity and respect your choices.
@LuMoRo34 do what works for you. Let others come to their own conclusions.
I do all these things and I am still alone. Makes me sad sometimes.
Im a so-called NEET with autism who is stuck living with my family and realistically with little hope of ever moving out but with a lot of expectations that i pull up my bootstraps and just get on with it like my brothers can, but for me living right now in this just feels impossible and i have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that im just gonna end up homeless
You don’t need a job bro. Be at peace with who you are. You’re doing great!
bro just work. mcdonald, shitty manual labor, anything. try everything u can to earn money cause u will need it.
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@QWERTY-gp8fd nobody wants to hire people on the spectrum and when they do get hired quickly theor employers try to replace them.
💖🙏💖🕉🕉🕉
As a philosophical writer (not a very successful one) I felt a charge to write a piece that became a message to the people of the world (as unsuccessful philosophers often do, like Kafka.) I pieced together a 28 page outline that had a poetic opening describing how we are failing to do anything about things even though we are more then capable to correct the faults. At the time I was ready to publish in 2014 after many years of research I was more driven than ever. At a public reading in St Lewis Missouri to see how my work might be received, I was initially met with a love of how I phrased my work. I opened up to questions. The first asked "did your military service drive you to write this?" I explained that my service was a mind opening contrast to my philosophy. Then it happened. "Now, I really like what you said and how you hold the... correct people accountable. But.. and I mean a big but on this. Are you a Democrat or a republican?" Murmurs erupted in the crowd. Amidst the drumming of the HVAC system in the building drowned out by the escalation of political fervor I began to feel as though I were standing naked before these people. Behind my lectern I made a few notes and adjusted the microphone. "I owe you all a great deal of gratitude and an apology." I said with a bit of a whimper as I realized that I lost the initiative before I had even begun. "My work is missing a critical component to support this message. I realize now that I overlooked it and presented an unfinished work. I apologize for that. I will not be publishing. I hope that I didn't waste your time completely." I was so alone in that moment. "What did you forget!?" Shouted several people. "Simply put... I overlooked our banal practice of dividing each other."
I covered the fees with some of my savings and withdrew from publishing my work.
Now after years of staring at the title "Behold the Banality of Dichotomy" on my note pad. I am crying over my work. I'm likely to "what if" myself into the grave.
Watching the human population reduce itself to little more than a failed experiment. So much untapped potential.
Just so a few can stay rich and powerful.
I hope that everyone enjoys what they failed to prevent. It will likely be a spectacular end to humanity. I was foolish enough to think that I wouldn't live to see it. Yet, here we are... Unless.
Unless you pull yourself together. Toot sweet.
Sounds like something Id like to read if it's available anywhere. As a writer who's lost the fire and hasn't written seriously in a few years now I know that I'm doing myself a disservice to not pick it back up but I just can't find the same spark I had before..
@@MossMan4288My advice is to explore as much as possible until then
Not so banal. Inevitable.
Written like a timid and mawkish moralist.
There is no untapped potential in the human race. Work is not just for the rich to become richer. There is no future where everybody is nice to each other and all the wealth is equally distributed, so no one has to work anymore. And this political polarization is just as idiotic.
And here the seeds for an epiphany: what comes first? Pessimism or depression? Spoiler: the moment to moment experience of life remained unchanged if whatever socioeconomic faults that are purported to have caused it, were revised.
If you want to fix yourself, learn about the workings of the brain, that includes the study of yourself.
In some ways, the only question that matters in the very end is how we make money to put food on the table, clothes on our back, and a roof over our head. Increasingly, we cannot answer that question in a workable way. And that’s a serious problem. That we have no solutions, yet technology has already led us to that place, should concern us all.
There is always an alternative, it’s called the spiritual path. It simply says - your material achievements in this world do not define you, it’s your character. A street sweeper can be greater in character than a CEO. If only we returned to valuing character.
"And so, he had one more idea, for one more book; THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES"
Who is that quote from?😊
I feel for Mason, I think I am the Mason who hasn't found his thing yet 😔
maybe dont look so hard ...
@@ZacAndoesomething about this comment really spoke to me
Maybe not finding your thing is your thing? Like a time traveler stuck in a timeloop.
@@Young_Dab the crazy thing is I have many "things", I am a photographer, musician, martial artist, poet but none of them are my career. I have used those skills mainly to release music on my 2nd channel which has brought me closer to meaning but I can't seem to find a job. Exactly like Mason....
@@Young_Dab maybe 🤔, do y'all enjoy metal music?
Imagine that people used to live in a world where the technological innovations from the times of their grandfathers were still considered groundbreaking and new.
Like having electric light bulbs. That could have been very new when your grandpa was born, and when you're an adult, your city gets them fancy street lights
9:48 His job required his full attention until it didn't require him at all.
I've been there.
uh man it hurts
@@5AKUTO I just got let go 2 days ago. Funny timing. Only the second time in my life that's happened and both times with no notice and through no fault of my own.
I will never understand why people aren't rioting in the streets over AI. It's an existential threat in multiple ways on multiple fronts.
Because they can't grasp it - there are people out there who never heard of chatgpt. Politics is too scared to break it to the people, bc the implications are so serious.
With Trump investing 500.000.000 billions...is a lost cause.
I agree with you about raising voice about the threat posed by AI. But is it a feasible option?
i am studying to become an AI agent engineer and i can not believe how many people still have no frckn idea about a/ what AI even is and b/ at which pace it is growing and come straight for many many jobs.
We need modern Luddites
Every single talent I have is going to be utterly usseles in the next 5 years. I have to settle for being one of those people that have a job they hate to survive and can never follow their potential. I always thought robots would be replacing the truly dangeous jobs so hummans could persue knowlage and creativity, but alas we have children minning cobalt and robots writting books
What are your talents?
A few things, robots are not yet good enough to actually mine cobalt, Ik it sounds strange but mining cobalt requires amazing dexterity. As for AI written books, they're still in their infancy, nobody reads those hallucinations, we're still a long way from AI rivaling Tolkien and GRR Martin.
Everything our ancestors fought and died to prevent….the elite will do anything they can to hang on to their power and perceived superiority.
@giovannifoulmouth7205 a decade maximum. Most likely way sooner.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 He didn't say robots are mining cobalt, he said children are. That was his point. We'll be left with the dangerous jobs while robots will have the cosy jobs like writing books by the hearth.
I'm going 30 this year and I feel so lost. I have no real career direction, I hate my current job but have no better alternatives and my studies didn't help me at all with finding a good job. I want to do another degree or maybe Masters in hope of finding my path but I don't even know what I should study. It really is driving me insane.
Just make a list of jobs that have livable wages and pick the one you like the most and go after it. Think about your interests and jobs related to them. Remember that very few truly live their job you just have to pick the one you like the most and make it work while accepting we have to work to live and have the good there is in life.
At least he got this video published in time haha.
Seriously though, I’ve never been so obsessed with success. I just find it hard to understand what I want. How to balance relationships, fun hobbies, and fruitful endeavors. It’s even hard to just define those things. I suppose the one true answer is in self reflection, but I’m too lazy to give it serious thought. Why don’t I just grab my notebook right now? It’s right there. But it’s too far, and I feel a little feverish, so I guess I’ll lie down for a little…
you don't grab your note book because you have been trapped by an algorithm design to control and steer your behaviours toward what brings more money to some few companies, regardless of the negative impact it can have on you (on your brain, on the development of your capacities).
And i suppose you live in America, at least not in a communist countries, so the funny part is that you've also been programmed to believe you have "individualistic free-will", something that rationally have no sens and means nothing. The good and funny part though, is that you'll just blame yourself without questioning your environment, and then you'll k *** yourself, thinking you're the problem.
Really terrified of the future. Maybe my biggest fear.
Dont be despaired you were not alone, theres many of us.
anyone not living under a rock and critically thinking absolutely is
This video made me cry for the first time in I dunno... 10 years or so.
as i get older and filled with regret for not having followed the areas that actually interested me , i feel the only way to really tackle this is to foster a lot of hobbies in my son and just make him enjoy things for the sake of it, not as prospective careers only. many people my age are content working a mediocre job that allows them some money and time to do what they like in their free time...
7:30 I am Mason but with one significant difference. I was never given a chance to work at any entry position. Reskilled with a different degree with supposedly better employment prospects, still unemployed. I've been like this for 8 years now.
No wonder, your name ends with L, try putting a W instead, that might work 😎👍🆒
More than 5yrs now
Do something else at the mean time. If you simply apply for jobs that are related to your degree, you're basically shunning other opportunities that might even help you get you a job in your desired field. Stop wasting time.
@@joet4811 you didnt understand the video.
same, but my name is actually mason. I also havent tried going back to college yet as I cant afford it. the vid was a wild watch for me.
1:40 in and it already hits hard as fawk. am 35 and i still wonder what i wanna be when i group up. "what to become".
I dont agree with the vision of the future for the simple reason...You see the underdog with pure heart and will set a new record...it makes you feel good and wanna cheer him/her on. why? because you can relate.
Now...you see an AI make a movie, set a new record in sprinting ,set a new world record in a video game - no one cares. why? because you dont relate. who gives a flying *s*it about a skilled computer doing good on "human stuff" ? that was intresting when the first computer broke every chess and go player...10-20 years ago.
Indeed.
The problem is greed. Corporations will do everything to make their industries use cheaper solutions. They'll shape new generations' tastes to enjoy fake reality.
In my early 30s and still wondering what do I want to do as well. I'd still work a minimum wage job because it took my mind of existential crisis had it not been for horrible shifts.
My story is very similar, as someone who loves art and didn't had the chance to know it young and neither had the opportunity to pursue this path. I found myself quitting school very lately and just after that, the 2020 lockdown happened. I have been very isolated for 10 years more. Since then I tried to feel better and find connexions with people and what makes me feel good, confident. But it was a very strange liminal space, where I believed it was all on me, but in fact I couldn't find the issue with my life, I was so anxious, sad, angry. But couldn't feel my emotion, neither express it, even through art. I was just lost in the sea, waiting for some sort of help. After 4 years of that I finally found my emotions back and other basic human needs, and I understand that all those stories that people told me harmed me very deeply and lost me in a very long internal mental fight.
Fortunately the body will always fight those strange human ideas that want us to believe that there's no luck and that we are fully in control of our life. That's what it teached me, so I'm happy I found peace with all this struggle. I'm still not where I would see myself. But all I can do is work every day with what life gives me.
Courage to everyone, we are all in the same boat in fine.
It is very relatable. Thank you.
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It must be the first time in history with no hope for the future. Even wars were meant to be temporary, but this is going to get worse and worse.
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when i decided that what i wanted to be was me, the rest fell into place. i'm not rich, my jobs are pathetic by any standard for someone my age, but, shit!, i'm happier than i've ever been.
Change. Ever increasing change. When the spin becomes so great that the center cannot hold, it's time to let go. If the system no longer works, leave the system.
i had this thought when i woke up this morning. this sickness knowing we are creating something that will disable and dismantle our own ingenuity
I have been singing the praises of this channel for a number of years now, but this video hit different. One of the best yet. Thank you
It's not "life", it's capitalism.
This is essentially my life story except I worked in television, and at 54, I can't see any way back onto a meaningful path. The future-hell, the present... looks hopeless af.
"Meaningful path"
What is your definition of a meaningful path? Watch this video a few more times, because the whole point of the video is the "meaningful paths" that society and our family makes us choose and how meaningless it really is.
@@BChinadian My definition of a meaningful path is something that's meaningful to me. I sure do appreciate you explaining the video to me, though. 😶
Be purposeless, so you will never be astray
How does this work when you need to pay the bills? Serious and honest question.
@@LuMoRo34 cause he's wrong, you need to be purposeful in how you want to enjoy your life or what you find meaningful. everything else is just a means to that end including working
This story is quite similar to mine, exept that I’m working in Video Games. We all sense the incoming threat of AI slowly knocking at our door but, for a good while now, I stopped worrying. Because I realized that a huge chunk of people still understand & value hand-made art. The people that use AI images as final products are usually the people that don’t care about art of gave up on it. I’m not writing my scifi world for them
same situation, I've learned to let go and stay the course. It helps to have deadlines and milestones to focus on and not worry too much about the future.
food for thought: don't worry yes, but do think further up ahead. you are correct in your belief that people understand and value hand made art. art is an expression of humanity in either storytelling or emotion that AI can't currently do and may never be able to do because people will never believe that AI is equal to a lived human experience or even can feel emotion whatsoever, its identity is as a tool.
the moment AI is good enough to create entire realistic games and worlds and/or we have some sort of seamless VR what will be the one ingredient missing if it can do all those other things? in my opinion it will be an idea worth caring about, a story worth telling. i think there is some sort of reckoning in the future where imaginative people become extremely valuable in entertainment (they already are, they just have to also work incredibly hard/use connections to get where they want to be) as they can produce whatever they want, and experiences are commodities to be traded and enjoyed. you can kind of see that in this video at the end. novelty will reign supreme in a world especially where ADHD diagnoses are increasingly becoming more and more common.
point being: collect your ideas for games. your ideas are shaped by your personal experiences, your own burnouts, and your own interests which make them invariably unique. they may become invaluable, they may become the only thing worthwhile, they might just become a commodity to be traded. what other conclusion is there if the end goal and thought process is that we want to automate work, in the realm of entertainment? in the physical realm scientific research will explode and we'll be out exploring the unknown (which is inherently loved by many as they want to experience and find something new and unique and many people will only value the physical)
of course this is only if absolutely nothing goes wrong and quite far into the future, but if it goes wrong you should be stacking canned food and ammo. ideally do both.
It’s interesting watching this from the perspective of someone who’s never worked for a company and who’s exclusively done backcountry wilderness manual labor.
I am this character. This is how I feel. I feel like a failure. I had so much potential but ¿What good is potential without opportunities? I see myself back and have nothing but regret. I sacrificed so much for nothing. Now all I have is failure. I never had a chance. At 40, and already feeling too old.
Coming soon to everyone’s neighborhood. We are all obsolete. I feel sorry for today’s kids’ future.
It's crazy how we feel so empty sometimes, we feel so overwhelmed by all the things that happens unexpectedly. "We are in control" that hits deep. Life is really a roller coaster ride. Ups and downs, but you know what just take it in, whatever happens, everything will be alright. Slowly Step by step, follow your roadmap to peace and warmth❤. Well all get through this tough times.
i was just having a deeply philosophical conversation on the nature of free will, science and religion with my nephew, Mason. the universe is weird lol
interesting, what did you tell him ?
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra. We talked for a couple hours so quite a lot but the gist of it was free will doesnt exist, science is new age religion, all we can do is exist and experience. Try your best to enjoy the ride.
I heard a story of a young man who sold all he had and bought a ghost town in the mid-west. He renovated the town's only Motel and hoped to attract people to the town, but it burnt down. It was an old mining town known for a man who spent 38 years carving a tunnel through a mountain, only to have a road constructed around the mountain. He kept digging anyways. Did you ever hear of that French postman that build a castle for his daughter? He collected stones while doing his route. I don't know how this pertains, but, thank you.
I’m 57 and my former industry that I was in for 20 plus yrs, selling print advertising, shrunk to almost non-existence. Most print media (newspapers) pivoted to opening digital marketing companies. It was cool but back then (2000’s -2010’s) it was all new and results were iffy. A lot of trial and error. Bridges burned. Enter Google and Facebook which, combined owned 75% of every marketing dollar spent. Earning potential for digital sales reps plummeted because rather than getting a percentage of total spend, you got a percentage of a percentage. So I exited and had to completely re-invent myself at age 49. Then jumped around with several restarts. One thing I realize is that I’m not alone. A good chunk of population has had to do the same thing. I landed on cold-calling and appointment setting. Far from glamorous but I’m better at it than most people (and thanks to Facebook for sucking at generating viable leads for many types of business, despite it’s huge market share, there is a need). So I guess the point is, find out what you are “better at than most people” , because there IS something, and try to build from there.
So, more competition and fucking around to find a way to produce more capital for the already obscenely rich...sounds like you missed the point entirely.
@ maybe I did. Your comment doesn’t seem to be relevant to my above comment, were you attempting to comment on a different comment I made,,,perhaps the one where I criticized Bernie Sanders?
This video completely conceptualized exactly how I feel. The idea that we are born to achieve is so dystopian…
With the increasing accuracy of AI, it's not long until even drivers, pilots artists, freelancers, and maybe even singers to lose their jobs, tgus video really emphasizes on not putting all your eggs in the basket of ambition as the world is indifferent to us once we're replacable, go live life with balanced expectations on every aspect
This is scary, right? What is someone who possesses only a modicum of talent in a certain art supposed to do then? Is there a solution?
@@Jasminehaydon unconditional basic income.
@@petermeyer9982Is that the best you can think of?
AI has ways to go... thankfully. Lol.
It's never gonna happen if it does it won't stick because it's missing a human ingredient...AI art might be technically good but it has no soul
Omg if podcasts are still a thing in 2037 I'll take myself out.
So interesting u chose the path of a 3D modeler for this Isidore
Episode. Im 3 years into teaching myself 3D Animation to be a 3D generalists and ai always scares me into learning more about it so im not left behind.
4:20 "Look, you're in America. You have to get out and try things!" said Australian actor Sam Worthington in a fit of passionate encouragement.
Some of the most accomplished people I know, are the most miserable.
Some of the least accomplished people I know, are just as equally miserable.
I, who got off the carousel, am happiest of all.
What I got from this is to stay passionate about what your doing, but always be ready for change throughout your life, such as change in technology or lack of usefulness for you, as if you let your ambitions swallow your life you'll be left with nothing, therefore, stay ambitious but also stay connected with your life, friends, family, and the Earth as the Earth doesn't care about you, I truly felt this one to heart, thank you for this message I didn't know I needed this
While the earth may not care about us we better care about the Earth if we hope to have any future worth living.
@@chelseasmith4753 Yea I didn't mean to not not care for the Earth, just using it as a form of expression, but thank you for clarifying
@@wrios64 I get it. It's truly difficult to remember the health of our environment is the most important aspect of long term survival when so many people seem hell-bent on not only destroying the planet but also society and life as we know it.
"If you aren't happy, that's on you."
This mentality is so prevalent and so toxic.
The advice I would give a young person is this: it doesn’t matter what you do for a living - work is shit and any value you get from life will come from OUTSIDE work. Work to be yourself, don’t sacrifice yourself for your work. Beware of ideas within our culture which make you feel you are missing something and have to appear in a certain way - these are planted to make you work harder than you would have. Do not chase ‘success’, you will end up corrupted and broken if you did. Nobody cares about you, you’re one amongst billions, you’re never going to be king of the world.
9:49 "... but his job required his full attention, until it didn't require him at all."
Damn, too many internal, emotional reactions to that statement... but that's what existential dread is all about, am I right? Lol😅😢😖💀💨
Yes
Remember, if we all give up, they win. Always hold that last sliver of hope.
AI is just a few short years from being able to confidently do what people train at least a decade to do (school, graduate school, professional experience, etc). It's coming up really fast. There are other Masons out there who might be starting things like their medical school journey, which would require minimum 10-12 years and an obscene amount of work to actually become a doctor. They don't realize how hard they are going to get hit.
Anyone who works near AI technology truly knows. The world isn't going to be the same and we need to start thinking REALLY differently about how we value ourselves beyond our skills and career.
Very well said
I doubt AI will be able to do highly qualified work like doctors in just a few short years, that sounds way too good to be true bc it probably is. In just a few years AI might be good enough to do receptionist work, somewhere around that level.
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 You're wrong. AI-embodied androids are already doing topline surgeries and LLMs in Japan replaced bedside doctor visits via orderlies holding tablets.
It's going to all be a very watered down version reinforced by communism
@@giovannifoulmouth7205 You do realize that LLMs like o1 have already dominated multiple benchmarks when it comes to MCAT and USMLE exams right, scoring well over 98th percentile. To not have AI overtake diagnostics in medicine would amount to malpractice. You clearly know nothing about the rapid pace of AI behind the scenes.
Brick in the wall.
HEY! TEACHER! LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE
Exactly.
Finally a story video. The best of the channel and what i signed up for years ago
This is scarily accurate to my life right now
I've been feeling so hopeless lately. I'm trying to build a plan, I've never been one to go down without a fight. But everything feels like it's falling apart. Like greed is going to burn the human race from the bottom up.
you just gotta get by enjoyably at this point, or dive headfirst into a pit of hard work and misery with the understanding that you might not even get anything out but you do it for the love of the struggle anyway.
things will either become exceedingly great with AI or unfathomably bad. the whole world will be thrust into a new understanding of life, enjoyment, and exploration
or be set ablaze in turmoil. just prepare accordingly to either
Right there with you. I don’t know the answer. Personally I’ve buried myself in personal projects. It doesn’t change anything but some degree of delusion is necessary to make life livable.
I hated being asked who i wanted to be when i grow up. At first i honestly said that i don't know, but the adults didn't like that answer and pushed me to say something. So i started saying that i want to be a pilot, because i knew it was a common thing to say by boys, so these annoying adults left me alone once they got the answer they were expecting.
This video felt so heavy. Watching it made me feel like hours had passed. Thank you.
The day will come when AI & robotics can do most work, but for pennies an hour. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is probably the end destination after that. I hope we manage to minimize the pain of the transition. Oddly, Covid gives me hope. Its amazing how fast the world changed in March 2020 - it can be done.
*all based on equity & social score......
this is the real concern. these things are inevitable but we have the wrong people steering the ship. our only hope is that china isn't as evil as we make them out to be or that people stop being complacent otherwise they're gonna pick and choose who gets to live in the new system and dissidents wont be tolerated
This is the story of every struggling guy 😢💔 Thanks for sharing this ❤
This thinking that we need a career in order to be someone is a maladaptation to living in a system which prioritises profits over life, money over kinship. We are expected to devote all our lives to making money for our bosses, being good workers. And what does that leave us with?
If we’re always ‘becoming someone’ then that means we’re nothing now, which isn’t true.
It’s a very hard thing for me as well, constantly thinking that I need to do more, prove myself & be where I think I should be. Annoyed that I’m not where I want to be when others are living what I see from the outside as my dream
Soon? I was born in 1993 and I say The World now is totally different compaired to 2000's.
I was born in 94 and I'd say the world is different to how it was just a decade ago. In 2015, if you mentioned AI, people would have assumed you were talking about NPC's in video games. Also, people used to make fun of people who were addicted to social media and were hyperfixated on superficial BS. Playing GTA V again has made me realise just how much these type of people were parodied back in the early-mid 2010's. Remember "lemme take a selfie" and the duck face being big memes? You don't really see parodies of these self-absorbed people anymore because their way of being has become the norm now, sadly. It's why I don't have much to do with people anymore. Everything I disliked and was making fun of in the 2010's has just become the norm in our society now, so I'm made to feel like I'm the weird one when I interact with people these days because I cringe at all this stuff. I'm not changing my views on this sh!t just because the world has changed though.
Feeling happiness and being good means to be able to keep the harmony and balanced of different forces within and around us
i remember feeling like i was always the one fading into the background while others stood out effortlessly. it was frustrating and made me doubt myself a lot. then i came across this book, Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane, and it showed me things i’d never even considered. it’s not just a self-help book; it’s like a guide to understanding your own energy and using it to connect with people. if you’ve ever felt like you’re not seen, this book might change everything.
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