this post resonated with me more then anything else on this site, ever since i was a child my goal in life is to accumulate scientific knowledge and all the power that comes with it and build a lab where i can do what ever the hell i want, it is the very thing that got me into rationality to begin with and i think many people have gotten into rationality for the same reason.
i even manged to build a small workshop where i experimented with various chemicals and electronics and mechanical contraptions.
i also had a similar experience with burnout in university, i got into IT even though it wasn’t my favorite subject because the job opportunities there (at that time at least) where much better the other faculties.
i haven’t given up on my main goal, i just thought that if i can get a comfy job in software engineering i can then have all the money and free time to do what i want, basically i was trying to “suffer now and enjoy later” and went as far as to abandon my workshop.
it didn’t go well, and suffered a burn out so bad i am still recovering form it now, i since moved into engineering and got some of my passion back.
i hope more posts like this are made on lesswrong, i think all the talk about X risk and AI i think many lesswrongers have burned out and lost their passion.
this post resonated with me more then anything else on this site, ever since i was a child my goal in life is to accumulate scientific knowledge and all the power that comes with it and build a lab where i can do what ever the hell i want, it is the very thing that got me into rationality to begin with and i think many people have gotten into rationality for the same reason.
i even manged to build a small workshop where i experimented with various chemicals and electronics and mechanical contraptions.
i also had a similar experience with burnout in university, i got into IT even though it wasn’t my favorite subject because the job opportunities there (at that time at least) where much better the other faculties.
i haven’t given up on my main goal, i just thought that if i can get a comfy job in software engineering i can then have all the money and free time to do what i want, basically i was trying to “suffer now and enjoy later” and went as far as to abandon my workshop.
it didn’t go well, and suffered a burn out so bad i am still recovering form it now, i since moved into engineering and got some of my passion back.
i hope more posts like this are made on lesswrong, i think all the talk about X risk and AI i think many lesswrongers have burned out and lost their passion.