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>>grader+(OP)
I had that since I was doing my masters in data science (5 years ago?). I love the models, the statistics and just the cleverness of everything but I just can't stand the "scene" anymore and moved almost entirely away from it. It's not as exciting as it was anymore.

When I started with the topic I watched a documentary with Joseph Weizenbaum ([1]) and felt weirded out that someone would step away from such an interesting and future-shaping topic. But the older I get, the more I feel that technology is not the solution to everything and AI might actually make more problems than it solves. I still think Bostrom's paperclip maximizer ([2]) is lacking fundamental understandings of the status quo and just generated unnecessary commotion.

[1] http://www.plugandpray-film.de/en/ [2] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer

>>Rambli+s7
Same here, didn’t do a masters, but worked as a data scientist for a good while.

> I love the models, the statistics and just the cleverness of everything but I just can't stand the "scene" anymore

This really sums up my feelings too.