I’ve stopped bringing up the awkward truths around my current friends. I started to feel like I was using to much of my built up esoteric social capital on things they were not going to accept (or at least want to accept). How can I blame them? If somebody else told me there was some random field that a select few of people interested in will be deciding the fate of all of humanity for the rest of time and I had no interest in that field I would want to be skeptical of it as well. Especially if they were to through out some figures like 15 − 25 years from now (my current timelines) is when humanities rein over the earth will end because of this field.
I found when I stopped bringing it up conversations were lighter and more fun. I’ve accepted we will just be screwing around talking about personal issues and the issues de jour, I don’t mind it. The truth is a bitter pill to get down, and if they no interest in helping AI research its probably best they don’t live their life worrying about things they won’t be able to change. So for me at least I saw personal life improvements on not bringing some of those awkward truths up.
I’ve stopped bringing up the awkward truths around my current friends. I started to feel like I was using to much of my built up esoteric social capital on things they were not going to accept (or at least want to accept). How can I blame them? If somebody else told me there was some random field that a select few of people interested in will be deciding the fate of all of humanity for the rest of time and I had no interest in that field I would want to be skeptical of it as well. Especially if they were to through out some figures like 15 − 25 years from now (my current timelines) is when humanities rein over the earth will end because of this field.
I found when I stopped bringing it up conversations were lighter and more fun. I’ve accepted we will just be screwing around talking about personal issues and the issues de jour, I don’t mind it. The truth is a bitter pill to get down, and if they no interest in helping AI research its probably best they don’t live their life worrying about things they won’t be able to change. So for me at least I saw personal life improvements on not bringing some of those awkward truths up.