Hopefully more advanced robotic and AI can also facilitate universal basic income, healthcare, and housing.

Can you provide a proper mechanism on how this "havoc" will ensue from a more hedonistic society?

I think you would find most people doing weird stuff aren't interested in being accepted by other individuals

Degeneracy is a dangerous word. The vast majority of what is called degenerate is not something anyone can prove to be bad. This goes both for not leaving your bed and inhancing your sex life with bodily augmentations.

… that HSR is perfectly fine. No need for Hyperloop. Jesus fucking Christ, what point did you think I was trying to make?

You're invested in window cleaning supplies or something? Cause that's almost as stupid as the Hyperloop in terms of maintenance and cost outweighing the benefits significantly.

>Why do you have to focus on that one metric for you proof btw. there are hundreds of scenarios that make this unviable other than the type of joints you're using.

Because as you have pointed out there are real engineering challenges you can talk about.

So why lie about a benign problem that already had a simple solution?

That's what I take issue with.

You mean like search and social companies already do?

I don't think a million of similar works will be interesting to anyone. Things are interesting when they are more or less unique, and here you say about historical studying of everyone living nowadays.

I thought FB was doing it too with all those fun quizzes.

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As you refuse to use your own brain:

The more arid a region is, the less available free water there is in the air. If you let a dehumidifier run in the desert it will harvest pretty much nothing. Which makes this concept even less viable for the scenarios you are suggesting. And yes, also DARPA has high numbers of morons that buy into every snake oil working for them.

High Speed trains are a reality. Hyperloops are a scam. Not comparable. What's your point?

You have 20 seconds to comply.

Nah. It's a glass tube with a mag Lev vehicle inside of it.

Half the price of normal high speed rail. Less chance of floods, weather, or wildlife getting in the tube and causing damage or delays.

A start up company in Texas was one of the best contenders making them. I was analysing studies on the materials they used.

Creating such a vacuum is not the issue. But keeping it stable over a long period of time without using vast amounts of energy is impossible. At least as long as materials have certain properties, maintenance is a thing and you apply real world physics. Why do you have to focus on that one metric for you proof btw. there are hundreds of scenarios that make this unviable other than the type of joints you're using.

Well, these are all legit perspectives. My point is that people should think about it. You hold yourself to personal standards all the time right now. With future technology, these things are probably going to be more complicated. I'm not arguing on whether or not stuff should be banned or not but rather on what types of standards you think people might want to hold themselves to.

You mean a metro?

What if I just dont like moving? Is it ok If I lay in bed and write software all day? Or trade stocks? Or play xbox? What if Im a twitch streamer and I make money off playing games for hours? Does my reason for wanting the toilet bed matter? Why does it matter? And who gets to decide. Should an able bodied person not be allowed to by a wheelchair? What about a scooter? How obese do I need to be to qualify?

Thanks for the insight!

It also seems like this rabbit hole is much deeper than we initially expected. I saw a clip with Elon all the way back to 2015, pretty much every year saying that they expect FSV to be fully self driving next year. The AI is just not there yet, and maybe the tools we have right now are just not sufficient...

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FSV doesn't at least. They build a 3d picture of the world using the cameras, which is pretty impressive. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM23sjhtk4Q

...and to my knowledge Vaymo seems to use the most sensors: Lidar, Radar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors.

I'm not saying that people should be stopped from doing what they want. I'm just saying that thinking about what standards you should hold yourself to is not a bad idea. Just because you can drink a ton of alcohol doesn't mean its a good idea. The problem is that with advanced technologies the things you can do but probably will have consequences you won't like are far more complex and numerous than they are now. At least trying to come up with a framework to deal with these issues is something futurists ought to do.

Let me ask you. Would you really want to spend a century pursuing nothing but hyper-depraved hedonism just because you can and would you personally respect someone who did that?

That's also my conclusion:)!

Sure but what if we all just individually decide to never have kids? Not degenerate,no one harmed, we all die in a generation. We dont need fancy tech for the scenario. However if we determined that tiktok was so addictive no one ever had sex we may want to regulate that. Maybe thats what OP is trying to get at but its sorta coming off as “the right people” need to decide how transhuman the creative freaky masses are allowed to get.