Yeah, even if the probability of “life continues more or less like normal for the following decade or two” is low, it is not obvious what to do in the remaining scenarios. And given than the typical human’s reaction to unpredictability would be something like running around and do chaotic long-term harmful things, keeping calm is a virtue.
We should be able to do better than that, but not doing worse is far from given, so a partial credit goes for that.
(And if you ultimately figure out something better to do, it will probably help that you have behaved calmly until then and didn’t burn too many bridges.)
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It is similar here; I don’t have the skills to do something meaningful, and I don’t even have the money to get out of the current rat race and think about things and maybe develop some skills useful in this direction.
And ironically, if short timelines push you to “you should definitely do something about it”, very short timelines imply “but if you do not have the necessary skills already, it is too late to start working on them”.
Yeah, even if the probability of “life continues more or less like normal for the following decade or two” is low, it is not obvious what to do in the remaining scenarios. And given than the typical human’s reaction to unpredictability would be something like running around and do chaotic long-term harmful things, keeping calm is a virtue.
We should be able to do better than that, but not doing worse is far from given, so a partial credit goes for that.
(And if you ultimately figure out something better to do, it will probably help that you have behaved calmly until then and didn’t burn too many bridges.)
.
It is similar here; I don’t have the skills to do something meaningful, and I don’t even have the money to get out of the current rat race and think about things and maybe develop some skills useful in this direction.
And ironically, if short timelines push you to “you should definitely do something about it”, very short timelines imply “but if you do not have the necessary skills already, it is too late to start working on them”.