Life Purpose feels empty with AI Advancements

[Insightful27]

Recently I was in a philosophy class and an acquaintance of mine wrote his paper using AI, I didn't, yet we both ended up with my same grade. He admitted to me that he wouldn't be able to pass if it was an oral exam, and that he actually didn't know what he was really writing about. This caused me to realize that in the near future (10-15 years) AI will likely advance so far that my intellectual work will become purposeless, it will turn into merely a hobby. Obvious I am concerned about the practical aspect the job market narrowing (I want to research psychedelic medicine & do philosophy) but it also makes me apathetic to think that I won't be able to do anything that is really valuable or new if (most likely when) AI reaches a certain point in its development. 

Has anyone else ran into this with their life purpose? Any advice? 

[Leo Gura]

Yes, it's a real problem. Major disruption and chaos ahead. None of us really know how to prepare for it.

However, humans who merely use AI to think for them will forever be stupid. Like your philosopher friend. You can't short-circuit contemplation any more than you can short-circuit physical exercise. A robot cannot do your pushups for you. A robot cannot think for you. So flexing your intellect is still necessary.

As far as what careers will still be viable in 10 years, it's really hard to say.

Edited Thursday at 01:29 AM by Leo Gura

[Hojo]

@Insightful27 You want to do the work yourself. Philosophy is a self thing if you are taking it for something you are not doing it right. Like there is no reason to even waste your time with grades in philosophy if you are not doing it for yourself. The philosophers stone is real but you wont get it if you are not thinking about it. You are doing philosophy for the philosophers stone. If you find it you wont care about the grades. There is something way more important here than grades or you.

Your friend is double wasting his time. You are only single wasting your time caring about grades at least you are thinking about it.

The only reason to do philosophy is for the philosophers stone the rest is gibberish pointing at it.

Philosophy is like a golden apple covered in shit. Its a tool you can use to transcend to another dimension but will appear as if its doing nothing until it happens.

Stop doing life purpose for other people. Problem solved.

The people who care about AI taking their stuff are pissed because they actually cant do original things. I do art I never cared about AI taking over art because I have original art with original style that only AI could replicate if I fed it my own art.

The people who do care are the ones not doing art they are doing a job and replicated their style to match the industry. AI takes that over because its the industry and suddenly they have nothing. No original ideas no original drawings or styles all copied.

I dont care about AI becoming a better philosopher than me because I have done my own original philosophy and found God with it.

 

There is however something to be said about people blindly trusting Chat GPT without checking or knowing anything better. I heard on a video that companies are going to get people so reliant on AI that they trust everything it says then the creators are planning on adding different facts to change the past and therefore future. Now you have a society that blindly follows specific narratives being pushed on them by corporations.

Corporations force advertisements on people to corrupt their mind non stop, then force narratives though news and media that will change society(this all is already happening) and now they are going to force AI to change the past and future by creating a legion of retards that just auto follow it cause they dont know anything else.

Coportations have forced the transgender narrative and we can see how wide spread it infects minds. Now 90 -100 percent of the pop is talking about something that effects 2 percent of people. This isnt on accident its a test and intentional. They can force adverts force news to talk about things, force political agendas on their customers.

This is a big problem.This is society take over. Elon Musk and his goons are the mind virus they are pretending to fight. They have been constructing something for a long time. Its like a constructed civil war.

Edited Thursday at 01:51 AM by Hojo

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, Insightful27 said:

He admitted to me that he wouldn't be able to pass if it was an oral exam, and that he actually didn't know what he was really writing about.

[AerisVahnEphelia]

@Leo Gura you can literally use AI to flex your mind just like you could use psychedelics to get monk-wisdom in a trip instead of one year sitting. 

 

If you don't use AI everyday for everything now you're ngmi.

Whatever limitations you think it has, there are mainly yours, and the ones left will be fixed, and if not here your job will be to fix it.

It's literally like having the power of all great philosophers if you've basic meta self awareness. 

 

 

[Leo Gura]

29 minutes ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

you can literally use AI to flex your mind

It's not the same thing. I see how people use it. Use it to not think.

[AerisVahnEphelia]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's not the same thing. I see how people use it. Use it to not think.

 

Monkeys are gonna monkeys, and donkeys are gonna donkeys with or without water. 

[Leo Gura]

Monkeys monkey more when you get them drunk and give them a box of hand grenades.

[AerisVahnEphelia]

44 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Monkeys monkey more when you get them drunk and give them a box of hand grenades.

By the grace of God, no one can stop infinity from increasing in complexity.

And shall I remind you that you've been dropping a lot of truth bombs yourself without caring for collateral. . many of them might have exploded and destroyed some limbs.

Let us have fun with our new Promethean flame; some will burn or be consumed, but life is not always a safe game.

As Socrates said, this new "letter on paper" thing will turn them all into imbeciles.

Never become a boomer. Stay vigilant, the youth is, most of the time, adapting to something wiser than the old mind can see.

[gettoefl]

Every communication nowadays needs to be,

This is what AI says:

This however is my unique insight and direct experience which took place when I got up last Tuesday:

If I can't add to the blurb of AI,

in 2025 I have NO BUSINESS communicating.

People on forums, socials and reddit are just wasting my time when not doing this.

99% of the words spun today are unnecessary drivel.

Adjust your life accordingly.

 

Edited Thursday at 10:41 AM by gettoefl

[Insightful27]

@Leo Gura Do you have any ideas about how to deal with the psychological distress of not having a meaningful impact on the world?

While I enjoy working on my life purpose for its own sake, one of the things I got most inspired by from your life purpose course was this idea that I have a unique gift that I can offer to the world that will help people. Even if that is true today, it is becoming easier and easier to imagine a future where that isn't true. Even if we implement a high universal basic income, it will still feel empty to live a life without purpose, especially as a masculine young man.     

[seriousman24]

Imagine Osho but with access to modern information instead of just nebulous 60/70/80's books and limited social media there was back then, he would be a fucking monster on social and psychological issues in particular at least.

[Puer Aeternus]

Honestly, I'm tired of these hyped up sky is falling because of AI predictions.

 

Not to say it won't be disruptive, or cause major problems. I'm guessing it probably will. The truth is anyone making predictions about the future are mostly pulling it out of their asses.

 

Ultimately, we are simple minds trying to understand complex systems and uncertainties. The more time you add, generally the less certain the details. AI fear, uncertainty, and doubt gets clicks and draws attention. Bold predictions for the future draws attention. We will lose all our jobs! The human mind will become obsolete!

 

When it is really just a fearful dystopian fantasy. It probably won't come true. The most you can do is try to be flexible for whatever comes in the future. Use AI to your advantage if it makes sense to do so.

[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura

I do use it to ask powerful questions in my contemplations, but it is not useful to just take the answers generated as the end all be all without going deeper into investigation using your own mind to derive the answers for itself rather than relying on the AI to do it for you. AI is a powerful tool but it should not be a substitute for critical thinking. For example, if you're stuck still trying to figure out and implement your life purpose, you can use AI to hover over blind spots in your quest figuring out and living your life purpose but it will not give you the answers to your life purpose for you.

Edited Thursday at 10:07 PM by ExploringReality

[Insightful27]

@seriousman24 That's a good point. There will likely be a period where AI can help augment human intelligence so we can keep up for at least a little while longer.

[Insightful27]

2 hours ago, Puer Aeternus said:

Bold predictions for the future draws attention. We will lose all our jobs! The human mind will become obsolete!

You know I think that this is also true at the psychological level as well. Our minds love to play into our negativity bias and hyper-fixate on the possibility of a negative future.

2 hours ago, Puer Aeternus said:

When it is really just a fearful dystopian fantasy. It probably won't come true. The most you can do is try to be flexible for whatever comes in the future. Use AI to your advantage if it makes sense to do so.

This feels very grounding, thank you.

[Puer Aeternus]

@Insightful27 Glad I could help out! There's always a couple million things that could go wrong that we have no control over. Better to just start with what moves you and it won't be a wasted effort, even if it becomes obsolete in the future 🙏

[Emerald]

I suspect that AI will impact human industries in the same way that the invention of the camera in the mid-1800s impacted the art world and the way we collectively think about art.

Basically, it will eliminate many industries that are about meeting an objective need that a computer can do better and faster with... and it will bring even more meaning and value to things that are more about human-to-human subjective needs that can only be met through human actions and interactions.

Prior to the invention of the camera, art was mostly a matter of practical importance where wealthy people could pay an artist to render their portrait or a still-life of the objects they own to showcase their wealth.

Of course, there were always more conceptual artists like Hieronymous Bosch and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (both painters from the 1500s) who were very ahead of their time.

But the vast majority of artists were hired as a means of "being the camera before the camera" for wealthy patrons.

Then, when the camera was invented in the 1800s and became popular, many working painters abandoned painting in favor of photography because it was an easier and faster way to do the same job.

But then, with the artists that stayed in the field, there was the birth of Modern Art... and so many different creative deviations from what was before.

And over the course of the next century (from around 1850s to 1960s)  you got art movements like Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism, Dada, Abstract Expressionism, The Bauhaus Movement, Photo Montage, Trompe-l'œil, Kitsch, etc.

This is when we started to ask questions like, "What is art?" or "Why do humans make art?"

I suspect the invention of AI will cause us to question, "What is labor?" and "Why are humans moved to labor?"

Edited Friday at 03:12 AM by Emerald

[Emerald]

16 hours ago, gettoefl said:

Every communication nowadays needs to be,

This is what AI says:

This however is my unique insight and direct experience which took place when I got up last Tuesday:

If I can't add to the blurb of AI,

in 2025 I have NO BUSINESS communicating.

People on forums, socials and reddit are just wasting my time when not doing this.

99% of the words spun today are unnecessary drivel.

Adjust your life accordingly.

That's a very optimized and logical way of going about communication as it gets directly to the point and there's no extra fluff.

And that is precisely why it's such a foolish and unwise suggestion.  

[Natasha Tori Maru]

It may not come soon, but mark my words, it will come: the day people realise you aren't speaking to humans anymore, you are living in the pure banality of sterile grey-washed ai mind. You will beg and crave for a real person to speak to.

I hope people realise that ai they so adore was programmed and populated by human minds. Inherent with deceit, subversion, duplicity, corruption 

I will take conversation with a human consciousness over ai scripts any day.

And this is coming from someone who uses ai at work every day.

You can't short circuit your way to transcendence.