I hope you are open to some words of advice from a 51 year old part-time professor.
I will not try to convince you in a short comment that its extremely likely that you will have 30s, 40s, and probably even 100s and 110s. But I will just say that I believe it is the case. You can decide what value to place on my belief.
To the extent the rate of change makes you more ambitious that is great! Ambition and focus are fantastic. I am happy you are solving problems, and you are reading. Since I am a professor, I hope you still go to lecture- but of course choose which courses to attend. Sometimes one can read very advanced material in physics, math, CS, etc. and feel like you understand these, but this can be a superficial understanding when you skip the foundations, work through problem sets etc.. I think some courses can be worth the time even in our exponentially growing time—I certainly tried to make mine this semester.
I think it’s a great time to be building things and solving problems, and I don’t think we will run out of problems that fast, nor run out of the need for thoughtful, talented, and ambitious young people.
I would appreciate if you quantified “extremely likely” here. Your downstream post has gotten a lot of attention, but I first encountered it after reading this comment. To a significant extent, my reaction to your post, and especially its title, are colored by this prediction here.
I hope you are open to some words of advice from a 51 year old part-time professor.
I will not try to convince you in a short comment that its extremely likely that you will have 30s, 40s, and probably even 100s and 110s. But I will just say that I believe it is the case. You can decide what value to place on my belief.
To the extent the rate of change makes you more ambitious that is great! Ambition and focus are fantastic. I am happy you are solving problems, and you are reading. Since I am a professor, I hope you still go to lecture- but of course choose which courses to attend. Sometimes one can read very advanced material in physics, math, CS, etc. and feel like you understand these, but this can be a superficial understanding when you skip the foundations, work through problem sets etc.. I think some courses can be worth the time even in our exponentially growing time—I certainly tried to make mine this semester.
I think it’s a great time to be building things and solving problems, and I don’t think we will run out of problems that fast, nor run out of the need for thoughtful, talented, and ambitious young people.
Inspired by your post, I wrote this one.
I would appreciate if you quantified “extremely likely” here. Your downstream post has gotten a lot of attention, but I first encountered it after reading this comment. To a significant extent, my reaction to your post, and especially its title, are colored by this prediction here.