Hugh Van Kuelenberg

Yeah, well, yeah, all right.

I'll start with something small.

So you sort of alluded, there's been a bit of alluding to it today already, but I find myself really struggling with the reality.

This is broad, big stuff, actually, but the reality of the world.

There's so much to be... Go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's more.

I'll extrapolate more.

On a day-to-day basis, I get by pretty well.

I've got two kids.

I love them.

I've got a wonderful wife and things are good.

But I find that if I open myself up to the reality of the compounding existential threats in the world, so global warming, nuclear annihilation, AI, and I...

I don't want to be, I find myself thinking, am I getting sort of drawn into the sort of moral panic that comes along with any new technology with AI or is this genuinely a threat?

And I feel like if I'm not, if I haven't slept perfectly, if I haven't eaten well, if anything has pushed up against my day that's made my mental capacity a little under and I look at this stuff, I'm bogged down and overwhelmed.

and overcome with dread.

And then that pulls me out of my life and the life that I want to live.

I'm unable to be the dad I want to be.

I'm unable to be the partner I want to be.

And I think most pertinently for me, I think the thing I feel most precious about in the world is time and I feel like I'm wasting it.

Do the Stoics have, I'm sure they do, insight into why it's more alluring to worry than to act?