impromptuz

週五晚上的香港，到處都是人。黃金週的週五，更是誇張。在一天內，我花了很多時間排隊。

• 中環站地鐵排隊，等了三班車
• office lift lobby排隊
• 小巴站排隊
• 連晚上去19樓的餐廳吃飯，居然等lift等了半小時！人龍排去街。

我們這個「超載」城市，到底如何是好？Overcapacity到一個點，到處都是congestion。

你也不能怪香港人都淪為「低頭一族」。當一天內不少「獨自排隊」時間，也只好拿手機解解悶吧。

學習脫俗。

今天與友人談到人生的long term goal。

連人生也要鎖定目標，也要提醒自己要achieve到什麼，這會否太累了？

其實我的願望，只是每天都可以以無憂狀態順利入眠。。

1. 人生是distant running. 這一刻發生的事可能似乎很devastating似乎有哭崩的需要，但其實可能幾個月後或者一年半載後，你會連發生過這事都不記得了。🤷‍♀️
2. 人生不只是工作，只要把鏡頭一轉，其實人生是多姿多彩。快樂的來源是多方面的。可能自己是生活正是很多人夢寐以求的~
3. 我們面對挑戰/不順利會變得不理智。把鏡頭zoom out點，把timeline拉長點，其實這種事只是微不足道！
4. 要明白，人生的default模式就是不順利，順利是運氣。佛學也說，pleasure evaporates quickly. It’s our constant craving for pleasure / unsatisfactoriness that causes us suffer.
5. 對比其他人，他們的經歷可能才是更可怕更難克服。
6. 想想每一天3件開心事。要知道你並不孤獨。

• • Being a sci-fi fan, the book has made references to many of my favorite movies/TV dramas such as Transcendence (Johnny Depp!), Westworld and Black Mirror.
  • Life 3.0 = technological stage where it can design both its software (learning) and even hardware to define its own destiny.
  • Career advice in this upcoming AI world: go into professions that required people, unpredictability and creativity (ref to Hans Moravec’s landscape of human competence)
  • Giving people purpose without jobs in a world with AI-created wealth only: One day, a society could redistribute a fraction of the AI-created wealth to make everyone better off (e.g. everyone with basic income). A low-employment society could happen, with people getting their sense of purpose from activities other than jobs. (Is it too good to be true?) 
  • The law of physics would be the only limitation in the future world.
  • The big question is to make these competent superintellegent AI to understand, adopt and retain our goals. The goals should be aligned with ours. However, what should be the ultimate goals for the humankind?!
  • There are a range of aftermath scenarios possible in the next 10,000 years on how AI would (or would not) co-exist with human beings.

 

Life 3.0 has brought readers from the near future to billion years later, from earth to cosmic level (sky is not the limit!). A bit lost in the middle of the book but nevertheless it is intriguing to learn that many possibilities could happen in the age of AI!