"Elegy for What’s Left of the Normal" by Jo Jiao
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"Elegy for What’s Left of the Normal" by Jo Jiao
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I’m living in Hyde Park finishing school after a year in Berkeley. The maple trees by my apartment have turned red, as usual. I like them.
I don’t dread the future when I mourn. I don’t find high-variance futures in the abstract very scary. I’m worried AIs would destroy humanity, but I also have hope. I expect I won’t be mourning this moment in ten years, whatever happens.
Mourning the present is like mourning a friendship when I move countries, because I know it's not going to be the same. I start noticing our little inside jokes; our conversations linger in my memory longer. I live more, because I expect this moment to end soon.
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Last month my history of science professor took us to a museum to look at Egyptian artefacts. One of the archive items was the notebook of James Henry Breasted, whom UChicago appointed as America's first professor of Egyptology 121 years ago. The yellowed pages held his cursive transcriptions of hieroglyphics.
An archaeologist at the museum, turning the pages carefully with a wooden stick, joked that one of her dreams was for her [...]
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First published:
November 8th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fooXeRHjgpv4TcoRy/elegy-for-what-s-left-of-the-normal
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