They’ll have my whole personality centered around hotdogs

You'd die, just like they would have, had they been actually completely isolated.

These things are incredibly fragile. The ecosystem gets out of balance and you're screwed. And the ecosystem is GOING to get out of balance at some point.

There's no escaping. Earth is our home. Once the environment is gone, so are we. That's not going to change in the next 100 years.

Do you consider individual decadence or degeneracy in your examples to be dangerous?

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Well it's actually useful to have sims/agents that have more realistic personalities for things like modelling traffic flows or predicting crowd behaviour when seating or ingress/egress routes are changed.

Like, what if we were part of a simulation and each of us is really just a fragment of a personality of someone in the real world, and our purpose here is simply to figure out better strategies for surviving the heat death of the universe?

The trick is no one really wants to be the test subject of the beta version of that robot.

why would you want a planned city? they have always been a disaster. Cities need to grow and change organically according to the direct needs of it's citizen instead of instruction coming down from on high..

I agree, but it is also society's right to shun people who chose to do such bizarre things. For example, doing such a thing might get you banned from most space colonization efforts.

Extreme power without any accountability or rules is extremely dangerous. I would argue that the more advanced our technology gets, the more responsible and careful we need to be with our use of it.

As I said, there is no objective definition of right and wrong but there are certainly objective consequences for actions.

No yes! Agree, that's a definite outcome, that's also my point though. We just don't know how we will treat the tech, it can only become harmful if we make it so.

I would argue that not having to cook would lead to far better health. People eat unhealthy food because it is the most convenient and inexpensive option, not because it is the best option. Wealthy people these days are often in much better health because they can afford good restaurants and private chefs. If you could give yourself an optimized meal plan without having to worry about anything it would be much easier to get in shape. An automatic kitchen along with automated grocery deliveries would be a health revolution.

The "highly regulated social order" is where it falls apart. You'd have to be absolutely ruthless to maintain it, which tends to cause unrest and eventual rebellion.

The farther tech gets us from a scarcity economy, hopefully the further we will get from judgy social tyrany opinions like this.

No one has some objective correct definition of what's "honorable" vs "degenerate", and if they aren't causing harm to or impeding someone else's freedom, it's none of our business what they do.

Our secret to success has been in our relentless permutations, not our obnoxious penchant for forced assimilation.

So like a mall of America sized bunker under the ground with a glass ceiling

Trial and error with all the cool new inventions, but having to put money aside for our well-being when we go overboard with said technology is what's going to matter.

Anything that will stagnate positive growth for humanity is where we should draw the line. We never know what could harm or benefit us, it all depends on how we use the technology of course.

Everything is made to complement our existence, but it's up to us whether that crosses the line to degeneracy. For example, we could eventually give AI too much responsibility regarding any task requiring physical effort from us.

That plus easy access to food (deliveries, not having to cook) could easily lead us to more health issues, and 10x more obesity problems.

My rights and freedom of choice end where someone else's begin If I want to become a 7 foot tall purple bunnyrabbit, that's my perogitive . But I don't have the right to insist that someone else do the same.

I am an orthopedic surgeon with 25 years of experience. There is not one single study, showing that any of these orthopedic robots improve anything in the long term for the patient. Their use is largely hype rather than actual scientific substance.

Payload is a factor. The weight it’s capable of maneuvering will effect the size of the arm. I’m just curious is all, not being argumentative.

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I never said payload was a factor. You asked how big they were

The idea where building HSR everywhere will stop people from buying/driving cars, or using existing modes of transportation. Is not connected to reality. At least not in my experience of seeing HSR being built everywhere.

Take China for example. They have built the most extensive HSR network in the world. They go almost anywhere in China. Has it stopped people there from buying or driving cars? No, in fact China is the worlds largest car market. They literally buy more cars than any other country. I lived there for tens years and trust me, everyone that can afford to buy a car does. I had to drive from Suzhou to Shanghai many, many times for work. There is an HSR between the two but there was always traffic both ways. The highways were full of people driving instead of taking the HSR. Not because it’s cheaper or faster but because it’s more comfortable and convenient than HSR. Not to mention the fact that so few people use all the HSR they’ve built, that it loses hundreds of billions per year. It’s such a boondoggle that multiple heads of HSR in China have committed suicide. For longer trips most people prefer to take a plane and for shorter trips they more often than not drive. Also, they still have normal and cheaper trains which poorer locals usually take because they can’t afford to take the HSR.

That’s what I saw in China. You can confirm it all with casual research on the topic. I don’t think building HSR everywhere is the solution people think it is. At least that has not been the case for China. I doubt it would be much different elsewhere.

...and whatever your job is.