Name: グレイとのQ&A #3人間の注意力の千年紀 (Q&A With Grey #3: Millenia of Human Attention)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:19:25.000Z
Duration: 9 min
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I asked for questions, and boy, did you deliver

with more than 7,000, so, let's get started.

Aging is a degenerative fatal disease of the genes in the same way Parkinson's is.

We're trying to cure Parkinson's with gene therapy along with Leukemia, Multiple Melanoma and others.

Well, because most people think of getting old and dying as a beautiful part of the life cycle.

With 30 years of genius, we could grasp control of our genetics, and gain eternity.

I'm not sold on overpopulation as a problem.

Birth rates have been going nothing but down

and until we build that "Dyson Sphere" we aren't anywhere near the carrying capacity of the Solar System

and, immortality is exactly the sort of thing that makes crazy, long-term sustainability projects possible.

Scary experiences increase the probability of bonding. This explains horror movies.

If you want the date to go well, do them. If you don't, don't.

I'm sure I've answered this before, but everyone keeps asking, so here's the whole story in one place:

I grew up in the Empire State, starting in the suburbs.... which I didn't like that much

then went to college in the wilds of upstate, which I liked better. But, it wasn't "for me" forever so next stop, big city.

New York was the obvious choice, but, because I was raised in its shadow, New York felt a bit like a step backward in life.

I discovered around this time I had Irish dual citizenship through a series of random events, which opened up the EU, and her largest city, London.

I knew if I didn't live abroad while still free of life's anchors, I never would, which made it all the more reason to go.

I applied to an Economics Masters program in London, was accepted, and went and stayed for more than a decade.

It turned out great! When you're leaving school, try the adventurous path! You can always fall back on the known later.

Sounds like we're in a dangerous place, sounds like I need to keep that antivenim..while I go...get help *laughs*

So, I *do* have two podcasts that I'm putting on the screen now that you should totally click and go listen to.

YouTube is how I spend most of my work energy, despite what you might think from the CGP Grey Reddit posts but,

podcasts allow me to, with fewer of my hours, make *lots* of hours of stuff for other people to enjoy.

Ostensibly, I'm doing this Q&A because I hit two million subscribers, but I'm way more impressed that these short videos, according to Youtube, have engaged more than a millennia of human attention.

At least, I was impressed until I did some back of the envelope calculations and realized that the podcast has eaten up 3 millenia of human attention,

Which makes the time-return on my time for podcasting, astounding.

So the bottom line is that these projects are rewarding in different ways

I'd love to see this number get even bigger.

Standardized tests measure how good you are at school.

and once you accept that they're easier to deal with.

Modem sounds. *beep boop beep tchhhhhhkkk* [Grey makes modem sounds]

I measure success by what percent of my time I have control over.

Reaching 100% isn't possible, but on average I've been getting closer.

If this is your goal too: beware the money trap.

I've always preferred jobs that earned less if they gave me more time -- which didn't pay off in the short term, but did in the long term.

The holidays are like 80% of the reason I went into teaching.

Watch the Dog Whisperer.  I am deadly serious about this.

Last Q&A video I mentioned opinions and how to change them.  The hardest changes are the ones where you're invested in the idea.

And I've been a techno-optimist 100% all of my life.

But this book put a real asterisk on that in a way that I didn't want.

And now Artifical Intelligence is on my near-term threat list in a deeply unwelcome way.

But it would be self-delusional to ignore a convincing argument because I don't want it to be true.

There's much more discussion on Hello Internet if you click here. Technoptimistis beware.

In my ideal life I would live in many different places for a year or two at a time, but that's not really practical now.

If I had to pick a new city at this very moment it would be Amsterdam.

I don't know. The kind of automation I worry about is the same kind that creates Star Trek abundance.

The transition from here to there worries me and solutions that would work in this world might not work in the in between.

Also, I am open to the idea that I may be wrong about automation and many have good arguments as to why.

Technology decreasing jobs goes against all the data from all the history of all the world's economies.

But I think we'll find out sooner than most people expect.

Teslas are quasi-automated already -- and automation of transport is my prediction for the biggest, most visible impact on employment.

Even pizza companies are getting into the auto business!

Also, Rimworld.  And, much to my own surprise, American Truck Simulator: so relaxing.

I cannot wait for them to add the rest of the states, and Canada.  Please?

But, I've just set up a brand new one and it looks like this.

Devil's in the details though. At one extreme end, if you want to take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans to persue a degree in something that ends in 'studies',...

...you'd be better off taking that money and starting a restaurant.

Don't get me wrong, starting a restaurant is a *terrible* idea but it's a *better* terrible idea.

On the other end if you live in a country that pays for college and you're getting a degree in a high-paying field, that's easy to recommend.

But between those extremes is where difficult decisions lie.

Personally, I went to college and took out  a loan and got a degree close to this end of the spectrum...

...but I only felt comfortable doing that because I was also getting a degree on this end of the spectrum.

Shock surprise: this one paid my bills and this one was a nice hobby.

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