You can at least talk about automation concerns with people, but I find it impossible to introduce climate events or existential risk into conversation. Addressing such issues feels like indictment of the middle class lives we lead or want, introduces uncertainty.
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My experience is shaped by growing up in the SF Bay Area as the kid of immigrants. We all believed in one simple message: work very hard, study long hours, and you WILL find a job that pays well and is secure for the rest of your life. Your parents did it, why can't you?
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Now, I do not know what to replace that message with. Perhaps to work hard on a set of enjoyable or fulfilling skills that have some amount of relevance to the rapidly changing terrain we find ourselves in, although you are not future-proof. Still overly broad advice
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Confusion about finding a career still redirects to personality matching, which isn't even proven to find good jobs for you (at least this is what I got from a career exploration class at my school).
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There’s a big gap between that and saying "I know my MBTI, now what does that have to do with useful skills in the context of deep political and technological instability or even near-term social collapse?"
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Trying to find my own answer to this question hasn't been too productive, because you're left with a lot of depressing present-day news and trying to make sense of predictions that may or may not be doomsaying.
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Becoming a homesteader to GTFO modern society doesn't seem right for many people. Neither does sticking your head in the sand and trying to hoard as much capital as possible.
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In the meantime, I've been looking at starting points for knowledge and preparation for these times, such as
@leashless's resources on state failure and contingency management (http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636 …).2 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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How are you finding the GSFMA? It's old, old material at this point. How does it seem?
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I must admit I haven’t dug into the details—started with the various introductory talks you’ve given at conferences + diagrams / slides on http://re.silience.com so far. Making time this winter break between terms to go through it all and do extensive notes.
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Still, it’s by far the most straightforward way of understanding this material I’ve found. I’m from an art background instead of engineering but the models are explained clearly. Figuring out which part of the model / system I can best work on is the next step.
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oh you'll have a lot of fun with it, I'm glad you are finding it clear :-)
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