AI Debate, Unexpected Events, and Generational Divides

Why do the young and old collide?

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Calvin Rosser
February 19, 2023

Hello friends and welcome back to Life Reimagined, a free weekly elixir designed to make you feel good and live better.

Keeping it short and sweet today as I’m gearing up for a move to San Francisco.

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👾 I. The AI Debate: What Would You Do?

Since its release, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has broken records in adoption, hitting 100 million monthly active users in just a few months. But with fast adoption comes equally swift resistance, surfacing questions around how this technology may change the world.

In the latest episode of The Sh*t You Don’t Learn in School, Steph and I explore what we would do about ChatGPT and other AI-powered technologies if we were in the position of different people, including a middle school teacher, college admissions officer, owner of a stock image site, the head of the Bar Association, and more.

🤔 II. An Article that Moved Me

I recently discovered Emily Perl Kingsley’s Welcome to Holland, a poetic essay that describes her experience raising a child with Down syndrome.

Kingsley’s message extends beyond being a parent of a child with disabilities and may be a helpful frame for when life inevitably takes a big turn you weren’t expecting.

If you give it a read, I recommend pairing it with The trouble with “Welcome to Holland” by Kristen Groseclose, the parent of a child with Smith-Kingsmore Syndrome who offers a different take than Kingsley.

📚️ III. Book I’m Enjoying

I’m reading Father and Sons, Ivan Turgenev’s 1862 book about the ever-present conflict that happens between people from different generations.

Turgenev’s fictional tale reminds me of one of my favorite ideas from The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant’s wonderful book that covers all of history in 100 pages:

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“It is good that the old should resist the young, and that the young should prod the old; out of this tension, as out of the strife of the sexes and the classes, comes a creative tensile strength, a stimulated development, a secret and basic unity and movement of the whole.”

🧠 IV. Something I’m Thinking About

“There’s no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn’t be ranked, because pain is not a contest.”

Lori Gottlieb in Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

That's all for now. See you next Sunday.

— Cal

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