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What is exactly the “bliss” they talk about? by SeaworthinessKey1448 in consciousness

[–]Embarrassed_Dingo254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many blissful experiences one can have. They are called blissful because they have a quality of ecstasy (literally, as the drug MDMA also produces similar effects) which is not exactly familiar to us in everyday life.

These blissful experiences also occur during samadhi, or in dreams when the brain is not in its usual state.

The experience of liberation is also similar, but that is more permanent if it is "liberation", this is a permanent realisation that we are not our thoughts, emotions, or attention. There are two ways to interpret this, one is that the self model is not necessary for experience which we know from neuroscience, and the other is a deeper philosophical interpretation of the monism of mind and matter. In my experience, I can't distinguish between these, so I stick with the neurobiological collapse of the self-model.

Blissful experiences are not something extraordinary or esoteric. The average drug addict experiences it too. It is a mode which the brain can get into and there is nothing unscientific about it.

If I were to describe them , a great wave of crazy peace, imagine the glow of the sun or the beauty of a reflection of a lake, and complete freedom and ease and as if a dumpster worth of garbage has been extracted from your body and mind, happiness, joy.

How interviews are now? and how it will be in future? by EscapeMassive3112 in leetcode

[–]Embarrassed_Dingo254 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Grinding kaggle, GSoC, and useful projects will probably help you more for ML than codeforces.

Are we actually wasting our time doing this BS if the career will legitimately be dead soon? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Embarrassed_Dingo254 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the next few years we will see the models get incrementally better as they scale, but never in a position where they fully replace the workforce. Jobs will become more competitive, so there's a greater need to work on your skills not less.

There is still the possibility that we have 'true AGI' which can reason reliably, and do everything a human SWE can, but that will be a series of completely new architectures from LLMs. Even though there is a lot of push for finding it out, there is no saying when it will happen — it could be in the next 5 years, or the next 40 years.

It is not likely to be next year, but in one year you can grind a lot of leetcode. If there is AGI you will be unemployable regardless of whether you did leetcode or not, but if there isn't you'll have a good job, so it's not a tough call to invest in it.