I’ll be honest.I’m worried.
说实话,我很担心。
I’ve gone deep into the AGI and post-labor-work rabbit hole.
我已经深入到AGI和后劳力工作的深度奇妙之旅。
(“Down the rabbit hole”是一个成语,指进入一个特别奇怪、有问题、困难、复杂或混乱的情况或开始一个过程或旅程,尤其是随着它的发展或展开而变得越来越复杂。这个短语来自刘易斯卡罗尔的《爱丽丝梦游仙境》。)
There’s been a few questions on my mind for the past month:
在过去的一个月里,我脑子里一直有几个问题:
- What can humans do that machines can’t?
有什么事人类能做而机器做不到的? - What will the future of work look like?
未来的工作会是什么样子? - What jobs – if any – will persist over the next 20 years?
哪些工作--如果有的话--将在未来20年持续存在? - What can we, as humans, do to secure an above-average future?
作为人类,我们能做些什么来确保一个高于平均水平的未来?
With these problems at the forefront of my mind, I’ve found a few answers that may bring you optimism and clarity as you enter the unknown.
这些问题一直在我的脑海中浮现,我找到了一些答案,当你进入未知世界时,这些答案可能会给你带来乐观和清晰。
I want to focus on this point that many are worried about:
我想重点谈谈很多人担心的这一点:
We don’t know what to teach children because we don’t know what will be relevant in 20 years.
我们不知道该教孩子什么,因为我们不知道20年后什么会有意义。
I was worried about this too until I came across a post by Devon Erikson on X that shines light on the issue.
我也很担心这一点,直到我偶然看到德文郡埃里克森在X上的一篇文章,揭示了这个问题。
I’ve been binging any podcast I can find of him and reading his new sci-fi fiction book, Theft Of Fire. He is easily becoming one of my favorite thinkers.
我一直在浏览我能找到的任何关于他的播客,阅读他的新科幻小说《盗火》。他很容易成为我最喜欢的思想家之一。
I hope one day, once I’ve burned through his work, I can hold a high-level conversation with him on a podcast to share the similarities and differences between our worldviews. For now, I am the student.
我希望有一天,当我看完他的作品后,我可以在播客上和他进行一次高层次的对话,分享我们世界观的异同。现在,我是学生。
On to his points: 关于他的观点:
Only slaves are expected to perform one task for their entire life.
只有奴隶才被要求一生只做一件事。
Our current education system reflects the education of slaves.
我们目前的教育制度反映了奴隶的教育。
They were career-specific skills like growing wheat, herding sheep, and riding a horse.
这些技能都是针对特定职业的,比如种小麦、放羊和骑马。
Today, we are taught to be useful workers. We are taught to obey the authority. We are conditioned to get good grades out of fear of punishment.
今天,我们被教导要成为有用的工人。我们被教导要服从权威。我们习惯于因为害怕惩罚而取得好成绩。
A free man is expected to act on his interests and do many things throughout his life.
一个自由的人被期望在他的一生中按照他的兴趣行事并做许多事情。
If you don’t create a purpose, you will be assigned one.
如果你不创造一个目标,你将被分配一个。
A purpose is a goal. Most people don’t choose their own goals.
目的就是目标。大多数人不会选择自己的目标。
A goal implies knowledge and skills that must be learned to solve problems that prevent you from achieving the goal.
目标意味着必须学习的知识和技能,以解决阻碍你实现目标的问题。
If you don’t choose your own goal, you do not choose what you learn or what problems you solve. Your destiny is decided for you because the only potential you know is the one you were assigned.
如果你不选择自己的目标,你就无法选择你要学什么或要解决什么问题。你的命运是为你决定的,因为你所知道的唯一潜力就是你被分配的潜力。
The difference between the two is how to live, how to think, and how to learn.
两者的区别在于如何生活,如何思考,如何学习。
True education, not a clone-producing machine we call public school, is an orientation toward how to live and thrive without being dependent on another.
真正的教育,不是我们称之为公立学校的克隆生产机器,而是一种如何在不依赖他人的情况下生活和发展的方向。
True education does not only teach career skills that produce results by performing specific tasks, but how to think and learn so they could adapt to any situation.