My own idiocy? I suppose that's what makes me pessimistic about my future. Or are you talking about everybody's future? - Everybody's future: Well, there are s

My own idiocy? I suppose that's what makes me pessimistic about my future. Or are you talking about everybody's future? - Everybody's future: Well, there are specific aspects of psychological perception that still, despite all that evolution, don't transfer well between HN-style communities (where it's a latent gift) and more bell-curvy social discourse. (The same is true in reverse btw) We are getting closer but there are still huge gaps. For example, people still insist on labeling things they don't know anything about, and making decisions in that context. We have a very crude, near-backwards ability to talk about or deal with the unknown. This is really hard news for UAP research, in the extreme case. But it's also just terrible news for a planet that needs to do a lot of future-planning very soon. Planning for the future involves immediate and extended contact with the unknown, as well as things like thinking in terms of probability. - My future: I can write software to automate and run huge parts of my life. But I still can't reliably make and keep a doctor's appointment. I get lost in the manual aspects of the process and then place too much trust in my ability to track my macros or whatever. And when I do get to the doctor, I second-guess a lot of what goes down during my exams. For example I am a huge pessimist when it comes to our reliance on one-off tests and would rather take the same test 15 times over a span of weeks than trust a single test of anything. Is that smart, because I learned a lot about errors in tests? No, it's dumb insofar as it keeps me away from taking any tests. Just some examples!