2026-09-25
This article involves content of a more personal nature, but I wanted to get it out there since it makes me think about what I have to say much more deeply.
I have been worrying a lot about what field would be appropriate to study, particularly given the rise of LLMs. Now my interests are quite expansive, but I have failed in my efforts multiple times due to the fact that I can get discouraged quite easily, internet addiction and simply ignoring the thing I was supposed to study to focus on other things which occupy my curiosity for just a moment.
Therefore I shall heed the recommendations of people much wiser than I am. First, see this message from Terry Davis (RIP): Artificial Intelligence Is Going To Be The Pressure Point. Others also have talked about a two-tiered social stratification that will be coming very soon.
So I will be assuming a "worst-case" scenario, where a combination of Artifical Intelligence and Robotics and other advancements in various fields will lead to the singularity. My aim is to still be useful if that were to happen, assuming there will still be a need for some humans to continue work (in the utilitarian sense).
The reason for this is that we can have no worth in a system, even to the level available to people now, without contributing at least some value to it. I would still say that I would be able to function in an AI utopia if that were to arise (without a job that is), by focusing on learning and experimentation even if they derive no public benefit.
So here's some initial background on myself first: I'm in my early 20s, studying Computer Science at a regular university (undergraduate). I do not live in a developed country, so there's that. I don't particularly excel academically, but I am still very much interested in computers and the prospects they might provide, although I am weary of the negative consequences as well. I have some experience with Linux, although I'm not that deep into it. I have studied one classical language, and I shall like to study more in the future!
Note that I have already started on my journey for all three, but they need consolidation.
This is a field I have picked not only because it is very interesting, exercising the primordial power of electricity in such a succinct and demonstrable way, but that it is also accessible to those who haven't gotten into an Electrical Engineering background, whilst still offering a path for deeper study. I might study C or Assembly along with this later ( more on those below).
It seems that the Middle Kingdom is on the rise once again, and its people are working hard in order to develop it. The progress she has achieved has been wonderful, and learning the Chinese language can be a really big asset.
I shouldn't neglect my CS studies. The decisions I made led me up to this point, and the content of the CS instruction is still interesting to me (even if I wish I studied something else).
Particularly if I want to go down the embedded route, or if it is decided to rewrite (or at least have AI rewrite) all software into those two languages.
Importantly, I feel like these things do really interest me, I would still like to study them if Iwere living in the utopia, but perhaps not now as I would prioritize other areas of study over them. The only exception to this is some of the things I'm studying for my degree, as for example a course I'm taking now which revolves around C#, I'd much prefer something like C since C# feels like it was made to cater to Microsoft's needs, so C feels livelier by quite a bit.
Some Japanese tips I really liked.