Should i drop uni, because of AI?
>Recently, i’ve read ai-2027.com and even before that, i was pretty worried about my future. Been considering Yudkowsky’s stance, prediction markets on the issue, etc.
>i’m 19, come from an “upper–middle^+” economy EU country, 1st year BSc maths student, planned to do sth with finance or data analysis(maybe masters) after but in the light of the recent ai progress, I now view it as a dead end.
’cause by the time I graduate (~mid/late 2027) i bet there’ll be an agi doing my “brain work” faster, better, and cheaper.
>will try to quickly obtain some blue-collar job qualifications, that (for now) seem to not be in the “in-risk-of-ai-replacement” jobs. + many of them seem to have not-so-bad salaries in EU particularly
>maybe emigrate inside EU for a better pay and to be able to legally marry my partner
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I’m not a top student, haven’t done IMO, which makes me feel less ambitious about CVs and internships as I didn’t actively seek experience in finance this year or before. So i don’t see a clear path into fin-/tech without qualifications right now.
So maybe working ~not-complex job, enjoying life(traveling, partying, doing my human things, being with the partner etc) during the next 2-3 years, before a potential civilizational collapse(or trying to get somewhere, where UBI is more likely) will be a better thing than missing out on social life and generally not-so-enjoying my pretty *hard* studies, with a not so hypothetical potential to just waste those years..
or should i go to reddit with those type of questions and LW is generally not the place to talk about life situations?