There is only so much time available to us as an individual, so we should be far more discerning with where and how we spend our time than we tend to be. We have found ways to give us more power over our time, yet seem to flit it away frivolously on things that don't matter, putting our energy worrying about irrelevancies. Wouldn't it be nice to know definitively what we should be doing to achieve our goals?
Maybe that is what people should be using AI for
- Build an exercise routine to meet goals
- Design a diet to meet goals
- Create a schedule to meet goals
How much time should passive entertainment be per day?
I am pretty sure if someone designed their life using AI prompts and followed them, they would get a far better result than they would get from doing whatever they are doing at the moment. Because the AI doesn't carry all the baggage and excuses a person does, so it doesn't favour one thing over another, it just suggests what it thinks will work.
At least at a low level like meeting basic human goals.
Instead, people use AI to avoid having to do stuff. They use it to replace skills, or provide skills they don't have, to have shortcuts to a result they can't provide for themselves. Like image and text creation. This usage is about reducing activity, not improving the ability to act.
My daughter said something funny the other night while eating dinner. She said that if she had superpowers, she wouldn't use them at school because if she lost them at some point, she wouldn't know anything. Essentially, this is what people are doing when they keep using the tools to replace their abilities, because even though they might not lose the tools, what they do lose is the ability to benefit from the compounding of personal skills.
People are very "result based" these days, but aren't interested in the journey. It is pretty much the opposite of what philosophers have said is the path of a good life, where the destination is less important than the road to get there. So many are looking to jump to the end, which saves time, but it loses the majority of the value. The journey is our creative self, meeting challenge, overcoming, and innovating along the way. It means that we "make our life" and even if we don't get to where we were aiming, we have built experience along the way.
Jump to the end, and what have we experienced?
What if we consumed entertainment in the same way, where we only watched the last episode of a series, read the last chapter of a book, or watched the last minute of a basketball game? We would know the result, but was that where the value lay?
Experience is valuable.
Because it takes time and attention to build.
Maybe rather than looking at what kinds of results we want to get, we should instead think about what kinds of experiences we want to have in life. And many experience can't be had until enough time and attention has been put into the journey. What is it like to be in a loving relationship for a decade? What does it feel like to send a child off to their first day of school, or the day after they have moved out of the home? What does it feel like to be incredibly good at an in-demand skill, or to climb Everest?
We keep looking to speed up the process so that we can get to the end faster, but what are we losing along the way because it can inly be accomplished in time, with attention, and speed puts it out of reach?
And I think that this is why we spend so much time and energy worrying about what doesn't matter, what grabs our attention from moment to moment, because the journey is very short and we can get an outcome fast. The more we do this though, the less time is spent on the things that actually matter, and as a result, the lower our experience is. We might get a sense that we have completed a lot, but what have we done if we have learned nothing along the way?
Taraz
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Interesting idea. We might think that we were prisoners of something external that “forced” us to do something. But it's not like that. It would be like a coach, tailor-made for us, guiding us through the process of getting to our goal(s) more efficiently. But it's like you say. We look for what takes the least time to achieve. And we don't look at the process as something that will add even more value to the goal itself
Very little of what we do is "chosen" by us, as we are influenced so heavily by our surroundings. I wish it was possible to track how much of life is actually self-directed.
If that were somehow possible to achieve, it would indeed be a residual value. But I think that despite external influences, we always have the option of doing something to counteract what is more normalized.
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Very deep post. Life is about experiences and taking mental pictures. If you skip to the end you end up with no pictures.
Not a bad idea to ask AI to design a diet and exercise plan. I might actually do it.
I tried it. I asked what do I need to do to get a six pack. Then added prompts to refine - pretty decent advice. Nothing I couldn't have come up with myself, but it was clear and I could have kept refining. Problem is - I don't have the discipline!
I think a lot of times it takes just as much time to craft the prompt the way you want it to get the information you need that you could have just looked the stuff up yourself!
Yeah - for most things people want to know, there is plenty of information for it anyway.
People just like being able to do things they can't actually do by themselves - and pretend they can.
Developing through building, testing, thinking is far more rewarding than having it handed to you via 'parrot fashion' learning or 'spoon fed' assistance.
Not totally against modern technology, it could bring much good to the world.
I feel there is a difference between a tool used for support, and one that is relied on as the skill. Without possessing personal skills, we have no value.
Person can leave university with all the degrees yet never able to implement into work force. Witnessing this you realize it takes years to build up a good skill set.
Experience is very important. Most of the experience consists of mistakes. As you make mistakes, you gain experience and learn. The future is more difficult for an inexperienced person.
I ama wealth of mistake experience! Would be nice if I could convert it to something useful :)
Let's say, some day AI will make us unskilled creatures who are dependant on technology and online informations.
We will be like the fat people in Wall-E
It is not easy to be the king of your time. More often than not, we are servants of time.
Time without attention, is useless. We need to learn how to direct our attention, otherwise we are slaves to mindlessness.
Last night I had a video call with my niece Gilda who studies Right at the Central University of Venezuela and we discussed AI and the prohibition inside the classroom of any mobile phone, tablet or laptop; just pencil and white sheets of paper. She got me a photograph of the Main Library of the UCV, which by the way the room is empty and the books perfectly ordered -no one goes to the library anymore-. My niece is barely 20 years old, she was born in the digital age. More than a year ago, when she started her degree, she had a hard time adapting, especially because of the amount of reading and information she had to assimilate. Today, she has already developed the habit of reading and feels more comfortable in a purely theoretical career.
I agree that we should not become dependent on either the internet or the AI, we must balance; we must certainly adapt like any novice in handling the source code of hive. It is one thing to let the AI do everything for you and quite another to analyse the ideas proposed by the AI and from there draw our own ideas and conclusions.
Unfortunately, haste and inability has made AI very popular, by those imbeciles who don't want to lift a finger and get favourable results.
A few moments ago I posted something related to this topic and digitised books, as Wednesday 23 April is World Book and Copyright Day, important topics on hive and other platforms. I'd like you to pay me a visit there. Happy Easter.