FWIW, here’s how my “investment” strategy has been changing (“investment” considered broadly, in a time=money sense).
I’m weighting foreign language acquisition less than I used to, in part because advances in AI are making that a somewhat less-valuable skill than I had originally anticipated.
I’m googling for websites a lot less than I used to. This is partially because Google’s web search has declined in quality (and while its competitors can roughly match it, none have really leapfrogged it) and partially because the web itself has become such a morass of crap. I’m correspondingly increasing my investment in particular sources of web content (these seem vulnerable as well, so I’m keeping my options open, but by the time AI starts writing LW content on the regular it might be worth reading). I’m long on the wisdom of the ancients, short on anything expressed in an op-ed.
I’ve given up on Twitter/Facebook, and am finding my long-shot investment of time in Mastodon to be paying off better than I’d hoped. I’m tentatively exploring other fediverse options.
I’ve been divesting from politics / political arguments broadly for a while, and shifting to a more-local focus on political action (meaning not just action involving governments & elections, but any organized efforts for social goals). This is I think in part motivated by an inchoate hunch that our ability to rationally observe and engage in useful discourse about events outside of our own back yards is going to be terribly disrupted by AI/bot-fueled disinformation.
My retirement portfolio is slightly more tech-heavy now, but I otherwise don’t feel confident picking winners & losers among public companies or sectors and haven’t made any galaxy-brained I-think-I’m-smarter-than-the-market moves.
So far, my policy of frugality has paid good dividends. My spending has been largely in sectors less-affected by inflation, and I have accumulated enough buffer savings that if my job gets automated away I’ll have some time to pivot gracefully.
I continue to be long on health, and take steps to secure a vigorous longevity to the extent fortune allows. Whatever happens in the coming decades, I don’t want to miss it.
FWIW, here’s how my “investment” strategy has been changing (“investment” considered broadly, in a time=money sense).
I’m weighting foreign language acquisition less than I used to, in part because advances in AI are making that a somewhat less-valuable skill than I had originally anticipated.
I’m googling for websites a lot less than I used to. This is partially because Google’s web search has declined in quality (and while its competitors can roughly match it, none have really leapfrogged it) and partially because the web itself has become such a morass of crap. I’m correspondingly increasing my investment in particular sources of web content (these seem vulnerable as well, so I’m keeping my options open, but by the time AI starts writing LW content on the regular it might be worth reading). I’m long on the wisdom of the ancients, short on anything expressed in an op-ed.
I’ve given up on Twitter/Facebook, and am finding my long-shot investment of time in Mastodon to be paying off better than I’d hoped. I’m tentatively exploring other fediverse options.
I’ve been divesting from politics / political arguments broadly for a while, and shifting to a more-local focus on political action (meaning not just action involving governments & elections, but any organized efforts for social goals). This is I think in part motivated by an inchoate hunch that our ability to rationally observe and engage in useful discourse about events outside of our own back yards is going to be terribly disrupted by AI/bot-fueled disinformation.
My retirement portfolio is slightly more tech-heavy now, but I otherwise don’t feel confident picking winners & losers among public companies or sectors and haven’t made any galaxy-brained I-think-I’m-smarter-than-the-market moves.
So far, my policy of frugality has paid good dividends. My spending has been largely in sectors less-affected by inflation, and I have accumulated enough buffer savings that if my job gets automated away I’ll have some time to pivot gracefully.
I continue to be long on health, and take steps to secure a vigorous longevity to the extent fortune allows. Whatever happens in the coming decades, I don’t want to miss it.