열정을 쫓을 것인가, 기회를 쫓을 것인가. 앞서간 사람들의 지혜는 대게 후자를 향하나, 그 지혜는 초지능의 출현을 앞둔 지금도 성립할지 모르겠다. 올해 6월에 머리를 싸매며 쓴 글이지만 지금도 고민은 별반 다를게 없다. 하루 빨리 실린더 커뮤니티를 만들어 관점을 맞대보고 싶을 뿐이다.
It's being successful that makes you love your work, not your love of work translating to success. Besides, it's hard to prioritize on passion - what are you the most passionate about? AGI? Language acquisition? Writing? Games? Productivity necessitates sustained attention, focus that is, but if you follow your passion you simply can't focus. Passion is brittle and volatile. Finding out what you are good at on the other hand, is relatively easy. Look at American Idol - it's down right obvious some people just can't sing. So what? follow your contributions(which should reflect what you are good at), not passion.
People who are telling you to follow your passion are already rich. Follow the work that gives you joy, not passion. That is as good as you can do. Find something you are good at. Develop economic currency from it. Follow your true passion after you get successful. . . . Okay, I get it, But.. and this is a big but. A big, exponentially growing elephant in the room. What if AGI is indeed achieved by 2027? What if we no longer have to sweat it? What if AI solves productivity once and for all? What if AI does everything for us? Should we not follow our passion still? The whole premise of "don't follow your passion" is that it's easier to follow what we are good at than to follow passion. That makes sense pre-AGI, but would it still hold post-AGI? In an era where there would be an AI for basically anything - most certainly including what I'm good at? Do I know the answer to this? No. I'm confused as hell. Worthy of months of shower thoughts. Do I think that the conventional wisdom outta be challenged now? A hard yes, for sure.
