= Conclusion and feelings
It is a bit sad to work on a project that no one cares about. You're not sure if you're crazy or a visionary. And it is kind of lonely.
I sometimes wonder if I would be happy doing this for the rest of my life if I could. And if it would have any impact at all no matter for how long I do it. My feelings in that area go from slightly depressed to slightly excited about the potential a few times every week.
As we all know, living and making life choices means sacrificing other things that could have been. When I was in France in 2015, I started a masters course in AI/robotics with the idea of doing a <PhD> and <AGI research> later on but quit half way because I felt university was such a waste of time.
But come now the <AI boom>, and although I still believe <education is broken>, I might have been much better off financially/reputationally if I had withstood the bullshit followed that path. Instead I sacrificed that for <Being proud of low level programming is stupid>[nerding about low level programming] and <open educational content>.
It is hard to get such ideas off one's mind. But the fact is, for better or worse, I've started walking the path of educational reform and sacrificed others along the way, and this is the path that I'm further ahead than other people, and perhaps I should pursue it further to a possible conclusion. Also this path has the advantage that it is not fully exclusive from other academic endeavors as we will always need content about the new flashy things that keep coming up.
So yeah, it's hard, but here I am, and I'll go as far as I can without going into <Charles Bukowski> levels of personal sacrifice.
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