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Hi, I just wonder if anyone is interested in ai?
I am, but after I did a stupid thing.....like talking to my parents about it many days in a row they started to tell me to stop thinking about it.
Now when I'm searching the web about it, they tell me to close the computer.
I learnt not to talk about my special interests with my parents.
TB_Samurai wrote:
I'm not interested in AI, but I'm interested in tuberculosis, and my mom has told me that my obsession is a slap in the face to the people who have the disease, and she always tried to make me not like it. She realized that she can't change it, so she's accepted me the way I am.
Wow. Those sound like really bad responses from your parents. What would the have you do instead? Play football? Hang about in the park, get pissed and set fire to bins? You could potentially go on to make great contributions in your respective fields, and it shocks me that your parents wouldn't want to encourage that. Especially the 'slap in the face' comment; how's it disrespectful to want to learn about something? Should war historians be chastised for their disrespect of the dead? Should epidemiologists be made to feel ashamed of their subject?