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The Japanese gardener anecdote is potentially misleading. Yes, he created an immaculate garden by devoting lots of time and attention to the project, but what if you want 10 or 100 gardens, rather than just one? That labor-intensive approach doesn't scale.

Yes, there's simply no substitute for putting in the time. However, you also don't want to get so lost in the minutiae that you fail to make adequate progress on the big stuff. You've got to use your time wisely, as well.

A heuristic I use to decide whether a tangent is worth following is how surprising I find it. When I'm surprised, I have often found it fruitful to pursue a deeper understanding of that aspect.
 
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AI is one field that has a dead future. (as a career)

AI is designed to learn and teach itself.

The ideal future (goal) of ai is ai making ai better...theres no place for humans at that point.

anyone with an ai field of education at that time will have no job at that point.
 
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hotaru251 said:
AI is one field that has a dead future. (as a career)

AI is designed to learn and teach itself.

The ideal future (goal) of ai is ai making ai better...theres no place for humans at that point.
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Your logic is self-defeating. Once AI can build better AIs, then it's pretty much no use doing any intellectual pursuit, as AI can do those as well.

If we're not totally resigned to such a future, then it's still worth students staying in school or people doing self-study and trying to excel in their careers.

Anyway, I took his advice as being more general: how to excel in your career. He certainly isn't speaking as a foremost AI expert, himself, so I don't see how the advice can be too AI-specific.
 
Another prime example of having money and how people listen and it just proves how an intelligent you are when you say something
 
He's not giving career advice, he's giving life advice. When you are grinding and chasing you don't see what is going on around you. When you wake up your life is over. You might be rich but being rich and old is not the same as being young. He's trying to say he wishes he could have more time to enjoy his money. Its hard for most to grasp, but imagine you had a billion dollars and you've already bought everything you've ever wanted, there comes a time when you realize that its just a means to an end, a very powerful means, but there are more important things. Its like having cheatcodes to a game, the game is no longer fun for the same reasons when you have the cheatcodes. You have to find meaning in things you took for granted when you were persuing wealth. This is one of the first aspects of how you can tell someone is really rich, they no longer care about status symbols, because proving this no longer carries meaning. Like Tom Bombadil in lotr who holds the one ring but it means nothing to him. Its bad career advice, but very good life advice.
 
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He's not giving career advice, he's giving life advice. When you are grinding and chasing you don't see what is going on around you. When you wake up your life is over. You might be rich but being rich and old is not the same as being young. He's trying to say he wishes he could have more time to enjoy his money. Its hard for most to grasp, but imagine you had a billion dollars and you've already bought everything you've ever wanted, there comes a time when you realize that its just a means to an end, a very powerful means, but there are more important things. Its like having cheatcodes to a game, the game is no longer fun for the same reasons when you have the cheatcodes. You have to find meaning in things you took for granted when you were persuing wealth. This is one of the first aspects of how you can tell someone is really rich, they no longer care about status symbols, because proving this no longer carries meaning. Like Tom Bombadil in lotr who holds the one ring but it means nothing to him. Its bad career advice, but very good life advice.
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Indeed.

It can be summed up as "give yourself the time to enjoy yourself as well as what you love". That is pretty darn good advice IMO.

Regards.
 
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