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Global conflict? AI? The economy? Or is it something closer to home?
Personally, I've become more of a doomer on AI. I don't think it's going to be good for humanity.
What keeps me awake is usually being kicked by either the dog or the kid.
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I sleep right through that shit 9 times out of 10
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Me too, but the 1/10 is still the most common thing that keeps me awake.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @td 2h
My dude, dog in the bed is feral 😂
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Very much so
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Dude, my cat is a fucking menace. She literally won't let me sleep sometimes.
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Honestly, what keeps me awake at night isn’t just AI or the economy…it’s the thought that we might forget our humanity in the rush towards the future...
I’ve always believed art is a mirror it reflects who we are, but also who we could become. Every time a world-changing force appears (AI included), we’re given two brushes one that can paint beauty, empathy, and connection… and one that can paint fear, division, and loss. The danger is not the brush itself, but the hand that wields it...
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 3h
Caffeine.
Life is too short to worry about things outside of your sphere of influence.
The only things I lose sleep over are within my sphere of control and influence and its rare. My faith is the biggest reason I sleep well but really it's pointless to worry.
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I envy you.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 5h
Health of family troubles me on occasion but for the most part I usually sleep fairly well.
If I can't sleep it is usually because I crashed on the couch watching something late at night and woke up realizing I hadn't taken my dog out for her last pee and by the time I do that I am wide awake for the next few hours.
That's when you will find me on SN at 4am.
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I usually crash on the couch when I have too much on my mind. I like the noise from the TV.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 5h
It can be a good distraction. Not the best way to sleep though.
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No, I usually don't feel great after doing it lol.
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"just one more turn"
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That's so real.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 4h
I worry most about the economy because it's the cause of global conflict and all the AI desperation. But there's also not much to be done about the economy - imho this is inevitable given its structure.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 3h
inevitable given its structure.
Indeed. And like the weather we should respond instead of worry.
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too much coffee 😂
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 5h
I don't drink caffeine after like 10 or 11am. It keeps me up if I drink it later in the day.
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last call for coffee is 11am.
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So often it's my curiosity than anything else. Some of my close ones call it overthinking but I know more about myself than they do.
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I never considered "overthinking" to be nearly as much of a problem as not thinking enough.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 4h
My kids. They won’t go to sleep.
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ah yes. this is what doors are for.
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Family business, that's a lot of stress
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I sleep well. on the rare occasion I don't, it's health related (one of the kids hurt themselves during the day and now I"m worried about them)
This is not to say I'm an anxiety free person; i do plenty of fretting during the day. Just by the time I turn in, I'm almost always beat tired.
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Geopolitics / global conflict. Not of the economic kind, of the my fellow human beings are getting killed because of some dumbass overlord kind.
The remedy? Work hard and after work smoke 1/8th of a blunt and pass the fuck out.
PS: which aspect of AI? The Skynet aspect or the Sam Altman aspect? Both are stuff of nightmares.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 1h
Why blood was not splattered all over the back of that gazebo.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 2h
Someone asked me this the other day. Is this some meme I am not aware of? It’s a solid gold conversation starter.
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I sleep like a baby, anxiety is just an instinct telling you that there's something within your circle of control you're abdicating... fixation over anything outside of your circle of control is just a distraction from that.
Techno-feudalism might be the closest thing I can think of relating to your concerns, but that's why Bitcoin is smack in the middle of my IKIGAI... it's very existence is a firewall against the situation the serfs of Tsarist Russia endured, a "permanent underclass"
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