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I feel like I can predict the future personal trajectories of 2 out of 3 people under 25 given a decent signal like a few hundred tweets. This is very depressing. But the 1 in 3 I can’t predict give me hope.
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Ofc it would be Middle-Aged Malpractice to actually share these predictions. The only ethical position is to hope you’re wrong about all of them and stfu. Not just me btw. I’d guess 1/3 of 40+ types have a similarly tuned classifier. Basic qualification for middle management.
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I’ll share what I think puts people in unpredictable 1/3 though: paying attention to something new happening in the environment that is itself unpredictable. Humans are inherently predictable. What makes them unpredictable is paying attention to unpredictable non-human signals
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A 45y old looking at a 25y old seriously tracking a legit new thing is like a camera trying to run facial recognition on someone wearing one of those cyberpunk IR hats designed to blind cameras. Basic weakness in middle-aged classifier is it’s trained on 20y out-of-date samples
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They are definitely an interesting generation. Some things never change though. The young will always be willful, convinced of their rightness, and eager for change. We should never ask them to be anything but. How else would we cast off the detritus of the past?