World ending soon. No more need for retirement planning!

[AntennaGuy]

I've been pondering my retirement and living-into-old-age plans for years, but have never been really sure of the best way to handle this. Well, now I've learned I have nothing to worry about, since... all humanity is ending in only two years (well ok, maybe five). Whew! What a relief!
Here's the story:
AI Expert Claims ‘Rebellious Self-Aware Machines’ Could End Humanity in 2 Years
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/02/ ... n-2-years/

[Nakedgun]

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Whatever is coming, and in whatever form(s), it cannot be stopped, and there is no escaping. Aren't human beings wonderful creatures?







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[Graeme1858]

Don't know about the world ending soon. But definitely stop pondering retirement and do it, that's my advice. I retired last August and it's brilliant, should have done it years ago. It's like every day is a Saturday, you can stay up as late as you like and there's no work tomorrow!

Graeme

[gregl]

But definitely stop pondering retirement and do it, that's my advice.

The best part is NOT having to get up at 5:30 in the morning. When I retired I decided I'd not do that again. I stay in bed until seven. And if by some unfortunate circumstance I wake up before seven, I lie in bed until seven as a matter of principle!

[Ylem]

It won't end, we will just end up slaves to the robots.

Retire now, is good advice though, best thing I have done, I stay up till 3AM and get up around 11AM, it's great

[Graeme1858]

Retire now, is good advice though, best thing I have done, I stay up till 3AM and get up around 11AM, it's great

And you can do whatever you like all day long!

Graeme

[AntennaGuy]

Retire now, is good advice though, best thing I have done, I stay up till 3AM and get up around 11AM, it's great

And you can do whatever you like all day long!
Graeme

I'd love the additional freedom, but... my employer is always very nice to me, our customers want to work with me (arguably despite my quirky personality), I have remarkably flexible hours, they pay me well, and sometimes (not always, but often enough) the technical work I do is very interesting/satisfying. Other people at the company have concluded that I love my job and they are at least mostly right. Some of the younger staff openly dream of someday having a job/position like the one I now have. So this is all a big ego boost -- which is not necessarily a good thing from a mental health perspective, for it can even be a bit like... an addictive drug? Basically, it's all about fame. Yes, my friends, I'm actually "famous" in a sense, but only within an amazingly-small (no exaggeration) and highly-specialized technical sub-sub-community of antenna researchers. I've grown into a big fish in a tiny, tiny pond. And ultimately, this makes it much tougher to ever retire. Because when I do, that "fame" I now enjoy will vanish so rapidly that I may begin to doubt that I ever experienced it.

[DEnc]

Before retirement I was impatient with the decades-long growth in stories of dystopian futures. Now that I'm retired, well, it's someone else's problem. But I hope they'll take heart in the following opposing viewpoint! (I just ordered the book Where's My Flying Car? from the library.)

https://bigthink.com/the-future/are-fic ... r-futures/

[Lady Fraktor]

Your flying car is waiting in Slovakia, we get bored easily and think of different things to do.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/25/busi ... index.html

[pakarinen]

The best part is NOT having to get up at 5:30 in the morning. When I retired I decided I'd not do that again. I stay in bed until seven. And if by some unfortunate circumstance I wake up before seven, I lie in bed until seven as a matter of principle!

0530 is my default get-out-of-bed time, but I'm usually up earlier and observing if it's clear outside.

I believe they're calling staying in bed after fully waking up "hurkle durkle" now.

[AntennaGuy]

Your flying car is waiting in Slovakia, we get bored easily and think of different things to do.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/25/busi ... index.html

Ok, I want one! But I'll need to keep working to afford that. And then I'll be too old to fly it. Argh...

[gregl]

The best part is NOT having to get up at 5:30 in the morning. When I retired I decided I'd not do that again. I stay in bed until seven. And if by some unfortunate circumstance I wake up before seven, I lie in bed until seven as a matter of principle!

0530 is my default get-out-of-bed time, but I'm usually up earlier and observing if it's clear outside.
....

There are treatments for that.

[pakarinen]

0530 is my default get-out-of-bed time, but I'm usually up earlier and observing if it's clear outside.
....

There are treatments for that.