If u listen to any high school student they will tell u how they wish their teachers had taught them how to do their taxes! I still wish I understood how to do it so I didn't have to pay an online service to work it out and could actually have full agency in my economic life.

What would scaling back business/economic growth look like? Is the need to automate so that we can continue to increase an excess standard of living or to prevent a dramatic decrease in standard of living. What jobs are most essential that aren't getting filled, are they being prioritized already? Why not?

This makes the spiking development AI generated media content make way more sense in the timeline of tech goals. What we are seeing now are the survivable iterations of audiovisual output that would be most likely to evolve into this reality. While considering commonly accessible MR/AR is the first time in years I've been excited about the direction of new technology, it's a glaring reminder that we need WAY better protections for people's privacy and security in the internet. The amount of personal data this tech infrastructure would require us boggling to think about being available to interested parties who benefit from manipulating people at scale.

Why would we want this to happen?

Word! Yeah I've gone back and forth on it a couple times. The thing that is of concern/interest I think is the culture that normalizes uppers like caffeine or even Adderall to either keep up with inflexible systems/schedules or to cram in extra activities. Its not necessary but easy to become dependent on substances to supplement our bodies to fit a fast paced environment that doesn't really cater to a lot of our needs.

Yeah! My instinct seeing a lot of these r/futurology articles has been that technology is advancing to the point where we are no longer adapting our environment to us anymore we are creating an environment that we must adapt to. That environment is overwhelmingly economic/systematic in a way that is unsustainable and linear rather than circular. Humans are becoming the most adaptable element of an increasingly inflexible world, so we will continue to be squeezed tighter and tighter between the gears of progress.

Or using caffeine

And we arguably don't need to be working 8 hour days to do the work that is asked of us.

A lot of the flavor and texture comes from the life experience of the animal. That's why game meat taste so different from domestic animals. I'm all for any environmental improvements but these lengths are wild to maintain current levels of meat consumptions. Like meat is an important part of our omnivorous diet in a lot of ways but this and lab grown is just seems so extreme.

Idk that more automation means people actually get better jobs. sitting in front of a computer managing a fleet of robots sounds about as soul crushing as being a delivery person or cashier. People have unhealthy amounts of screentime without it being their full time job. It would be slightly cooler to design and fix the robots but where are minimum wage workers gonna get the money to get that kind of education. The reason people are scared of automation taking their jobs is cuz it doesn't come with equal employment opportunities to the job that the company no longer needs to pay them for. The world's gonna just keep changing tho that's life idfk

You think curation will be the thing to improve it? O are you talking about algorithms that do the moderation for u?

Yep and the fact that we live in a world where that is universal and almost unchallenged is freaky.

Yeah pornography and sexual content isn't inherently bad for young people but the lack of consciousness a the way social media skews young people's perception of reality is, including sexuality. I didn't spend a whole lot of time on social media when I was younger but I still got a lot of my assumptions about how to think about the world and people from media, which has been a struggle to unlearn having realized it is the source of a lot of anxiety and a factor in depression.

Humans are highly adaptive and dynamic animals. The vast majority of our physiology and intelligence evolved in dynamic 3d, social and ecological environments. The shift from a multi sensory engaging lifestyle or even just leisure experiences to almost exclusively audio visual experience, that also disrupts your bodies ability to properly sleep has got to have a negative effect on your mental health.

The pandemic was like a huge experiment in the highly virtual lifestyle and for a lot of people it was horrendous, and it's already showing significant negative impact on children. I have friends who work with kids and across younger age groups the kids struggle to think creatively for how to engage themselves, show decreased social skills and emotional management.

The speed that technology is developing is amazing, what's possible is increasing exponentially in the digital sphere. It's just that living human beings, our bodies and minds can't adapt fast enough to keep up without a cost.

Please elaborate! :o

We don't have a sensor that can actually do what a nose can do, it can come close and be trained but smell is actually wildly complex and fluctuates in a way that is amazingly hard to figure out.

Everyone should watch Brian David Gilberts MegaMan video, there are so many sentient robots in those games that did not need to be sentient.

FR, IF an AI was stuck inside a computer but just as if not more intelligent than a human brain it would go absolutely nuts. It would be like life in prison or as someone's pet, solitary confinement even unless it was constantly fed new challenges to entertain it. It might get depressed, though I guess it would need the emotional hormones or an equivalent to develop an emotional response.