You should look into a guy named Tom Campbell and his "My Big Toe". Based on quantum physics and decades of consciousness research he means we live in a huge MMORPG. Reality is rendered when observed, just as you mentioned. He do think we have free will though.

Yeah, I can read it. And if I can read it why couldn't they? I'm not particularly bright. Why couldn't I believe a machine could do my job better than me?what do you want your job to be says the machine? Live long and prosper, you reply. Ok says the machine. Sweet, im the star in the amazing new movie franchise Fast and the Furbinous, my life's lookin tits right now, I'm gonna go grab some "micheladas" ifykyk. And do what Christ died for me to do. Aint that right buddy?! Now imma drive my fast ass car right down this road and bam I'm wrapped around her finger.

Just snug right on in there. We'll everyone else said I was too young! Oh? Did they now? Everyone else according to who? Like everyone else according to the animals you have dominion over?what did they think when you stomped them out? Used them by the millions, to create new protein sources. Save one cow! Eat a whole bunch of ground up bugs instead!one plus one is relatively ♾️ you see

>these are very pretty assumptions that i don't think take into account the automated kill drones that are going to be around this time.

OP asked for practical advice to do with retirement. I mused on the possibility that things go very wrong by saying:

>this would be a dystopian place unworthy of any meaningful planning now beyond 'buy land and build a bunker'.

I'm well aware of the negative possibilities that stem from AI.

If we continue on our current trajectory the odds that this doesn't end in a nuclear apocalypse is near 0.

Better stack cash and invest, work hard for the next ten years in case employment is impossible and society doesn't keep up.

This looks like a slightly better version of siri imo

Do you not have any hobbies at all? What's to stop people from just doing different hobbies in lieu of work?

People can take up archery, painting, cooking, reading etc. Everything a job has to offer as a social cohesion can be replaced with a hobby, lots of people already do that. I don't know how you missed that completely.

So how long ago did you try it? How long fast is it going to be able to narrow down everything? To know exactly what happend? How many times do certain people have to go to confessions and appeal their case to God, or a higher power. Because they're going to take care of it. theyre going to find the time in their schedule to fix my needs you'll see. And God said "Look out for me!" Oh cool, what does that mean? It's something personal. But it's something different to different folks. How much time do you spend on you knees praying to the lord and begging for forgiveness. How much time have others spent on their knees for you? To help you succeed, to become the person you said you would be praying for you, begging their God for you. And how much time did you spend on your knees giving thanks, for all of life's blessings. Weigh it against weather or not, if the option for eternity was on the table who's version of heaven, and whose version of hell would you enter? And what are you weighing it against?

How much do you trust the information you're given? How much do you trust to be real? What could you defend in a court of higher thinking. And what would have to be defended against you. What do you really know? Who do you own? And who owns you? In the grand scheme of things? How much debt do you really owe? And how much do you own? And what truly belongs to you?

All the more to keep living your life until that point.

Doesn’t work for me for some reason…

We are not small insignificant specs, we are the entire universe. As with everything there is a balance in what to take seriously and what not. And i am sure we might have very different ideas of what "game" and "serious" means!

Don't forget there is still always the possibility of asteroids, and solar winds that can disrupt pur grids before any tech can prevent it

AGI isn't required for an AI to be sufficiently powerful to change existence as you know it

Prompt:

Create an entire universe based on 4 fundamental laws of physics, make it so eventually life evolves that questions whether they’re just a prompt in an AI software.

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If we do reach ASI within our lifetime meaning before 2080, then our lifespan with be extended greatly. If we are able to live to age 150 then retirement age will simply increase.

Yet. How long until it gets there? At the rate we're going? How long until it hits all the little nooks and crannies that the dark was hiding in? The unknown variables become known variables so we create new variables to vary.

>People usually die soon after retirement. If the nature of 'work' is enjoyable and promotes a healthy lifestyle, why not extend it as long as possible?

that's a feature for the modern aristocracy. make them as much money as possible, and then die after you are unable to do so any longer so they don't have to pay taxes to support your deprived elderly ass. iirc like a quarter of people or something like that don't make it to retirement age anyway, toss a coin twice and see how many times in lands on the time face twice in a row, that's the chance of you not even seeing retirement age, especially in good health.

these are very pretty assumptions that i don't think take into account the automated kill drones that are going to be around this time. misouri effectively made it illegal to be homeless, the poor are viewed with contempt in the USA, even by other poor people. unless something dramatically changes culturally in fly-over USA, things seem like they're just going to get really fucking grim for many people, as they already are now.

I've been following goertzel for a while.. I think he is right about agi, and about llms being able to automate a large portion of human work...

I think llms could actually lead to some kind of limited artificial superintelligence... An intelligence that will allow for the creation of new truly sentient ai.

I ran into this issue (skipping steps and messing up the answer) when I was learning algebra all the time

Ok but to add dynentionality to it. Does she really have 5 apples? 5 apples according to who? 5 apples to me, is that 5 apples to you? So you would be happy with just 5 apples? Yes? Ok here, I'll give you 5 shriveled up worm infested apples. Cool got it. Here time, you only get one apple sorry. But it's this GIANT 5 stories tall omegazord/voltron concoction super roulette punch 777 action kung-fu grip apple with all the sides and toppings you could ever ask for apple. Well, that hardly seems fair does it?

I agree, I highly doubt higher dimensional beings governed by different laws would have the same level of interests such as video games like us.

same but i'm in my mid-late 20s i'll let ur know thru ouja board how it works out.

tbh i'm utterly terrified of reverting back from blacksmith to serf. the modern aristocracy will flood the streets with blood to retain their positions of privilege, this time with automated kill drones, so i'm trying to invest as much as possible now in the scenario that things unfold in such a way that I lose my position of blacksmith.

filed 4 my llc in delaware literally a few seconds ago so maybe that will work out too, but seeing how america treets socioeconomic problems as-is, im goddamn terrified

> > there will also be an effect on the family unit. Most people are not used to being around their significant other 24 x 7. We aren't evolved for it.

lmao get a better significant other... or maybe BE a better significant other?

Oh and I also asked GPT to give me 500 randomly generated upper case strings using latin characters and numbers and I asked it to always use a specific text for the first 8 characters. I performed the task by requesting 50 strigs at a time and GPT almost always overshot it and generated 51 to 54 strings for each prompt. One time it was short, it generated only 49.

What isnt serious about building a society that has the potential be gods? I hate arguments like "we are just small Insignificant specs". We should take our lives very seriously we hold the fates of every living being on the planet in our hands.