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当机器积极取代人类劳动时，许多事情都失去了意义。世界正在快速变化，你需要一个坚实的框架来驾驭它。当 Waymo 取代出租车司机，Codex 取代开发者时，很多人开始问：接下来怎么办？回学校时，我曾认为斯多葛学派和伊壁鸠鲁学派是两个对立的阵营：一个只关注享乐，另一个则是一群悲观的人，只能默默忍受一切。事实证明，一种存在了 2000 多年的哲学，蕴含着比这更有趣的思想。这是我的看法：如果你用萨特的激进存在主义自由（你从根本上是自由的，并创造自己的命运）取代斯多葛式的决定论（一切都被宇宙/逻各斯预先决定），你就能获得真正有效的斯多葛伦理学，而无需神秘主义的色彩——并且将更多的责任放在你自己的手中。在这个新斯多葛主义框架下，人的角色实际上是有意义的： * 服务于美德：智慧、勇气、正义、节制 * 为周围的人和自然创造价值，并获得回报 * 接受所有事件作为同一系统的一部分（死亡更接近于热力学，而不是某种坏事之后伴随着惩罚或永恒的幸福）在这个框架内，更容易相信人类存在的目的不是在 Jira 中拖动卡片，不是编写官僚报告，也不是做那些最终会被自动化的无意义工作。一个人应该努力创造——他们的工作对他们自己和他人来说都具有真正的意义和重要性。无论你是开发者还是鞋匠。我个人认识的大多数有影响力和成功的人，他们构建事物不是为了赚更多的钱，而是因为他们迫切希望解决他们周围看到的问题。这就是他们的服务。而且，正是在这个体系中，更容易带着尊严面对艰难的事件——知道你可以影响它们，但成功的程度各不相同。如果你想深入了解，可以从马可·奥勒留到马西莫·皮利尤奇那里阅读。这都是同一个框架，只是应用于不同的现实。我很乐意与聪明人讨论这些想法。

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When machines are actively replacing human labor, a lot of things lose their meaning. The world is shifting fast and you need a solid framework to navigate it. When Waymo replaces the cab driver and Codex replaces the developer, a lot of people start asking: what now?Back in school I thought Stoics and Epicureans were two opposite camps: one was all about pleasure, the other was sad people who just endured everything. Turns out a 2000+ year old philosophy has way more interesting ideas than that.Here's my take: if you replace Stoic determinism (everything is predetermined by the cosmos/logos) with Sartre's radical existentialist freedom (you are fundamentally free and build your own fate), you get Stoic ethics that actually work without the mysticism — and put way more responsibility in your own hands.In this neo-Stoic framework, the role of a human being actually makes sense:- Serve the virtues: wisdom, courage, justice, temperance - Create value for people and nature around you, receive value in return - Accept all events as part of one system (where death is closer to thermodynamics than something bad followed by punishment or eternal bliss)Within this framework it's much easier to believe that the purpose of human existence is not dragging cards in Jira, not writing bureaucratic reports, and not doing pointless work that will be automated anyway.A person should strive toward creation — where their work has real meaning and real significance, for themselves and for others. Whether you're a developer or a cobbler.Most of the influential and successful people I personally know build things not to make more money, but because they desperately want to solve a problem they see around them. That's their service.And it's within this system that it becomes easier to face hard events with dignity — knowing you can influence them, but with varying degrees of success.If you want to go deeper, read from Marcus Aurelius to Massimo Pigliucci. It's all the same framework, just applied to different realities.I’d be happy to discuss this thoughts with smart people

新斯多主义是21世纪的信仰。