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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/sonderlingg on 2024-01-14 18:22:40+00:00.
I'm totally bored with life, almost nothing interests me. Barely doing absolutely pointless high paid programming job. Feels like I've studied every fundamental topic that interests me deeply enough, that there won't be "wow" moments for me anymore. Universe, consciousness, evolution, people, brain, technology, etc.
All the trivial stuff just annoys me.
I also have incurable chronic pain, awful autobiographical memory, brain fog, total aphantasia (no visualization, all senses),
There's a lot of suffering in the universe and no justice.
We are just primitive creatures without free will, probably stuck in a complexity simulation, created by something non giving a fuck about our conscious experience. Who ingrained suffering into the simulation, to make evolution more effective.
Very high risk from future AI seems obvious to me. It greatly outweighs the ideal scenario (if it's even possible). People mostly are just wishful thinkers, who lack wide perspective or don't want to think seriously and realistically about these topics (which is good for them).
They also base their assumptions on societal opinion, which is very undetermined, regarding AI.
I'm just trying to survive, waiting for technological progress to wipe me out, hopefully without pain.
I'm too afraid to do it myself and I don't want to worsen lives of people who are close to me.
Just wanted to get it off.