Ah yes... and where exactly do these magical beings you call immigrants come from? From countries that are, themselves, developing and thus going through the same "falling birthrates" carousel the 1st world is suffering. And I imagine that you wouldn't want their criminals or "undesirables", just their brightest, at just the right age where they can start contributing to the economy.
These calls for immigration by good-hearted people always make me laugh. They're painted under the light of giving someone a better life, while in truth it's just a rebranded form of colonialism. Instead of material resources, it's just a harvest of the human resources.

And that's exactly what huxley warned us of. That we wouldn't live a world where truth is hidden, we would live in a world where everyone can find a perfectly convenient truth. We live in a world with plenty of diversity of opinions, as is. More tools with diverse leanings will just mean that people will pick and choose their source of truth.
I do like your thinking, but it keeps reminding me of all the doom scenarios people like huxley and kackzinsky predicted. Where tools designed to fix problems just keep creating more of them.

Reminds me of that study about how kids born in january were more likely to follow a sports career.
Why? Because the kids born in january will have far more time to grow than the kid born in september or october before their first class. They will be bigger than their classmates, and they will perform better in sports class, receiving more praise and encouragements. And when it's time to choose a career, they will feel more confident in one that involves physical prowess.
It's really interesting how the tiniest detail can completely change someone's life. The difference might not be what makes a kid a genius or a G W Bush... But maybe it would point him in the right direction.

What went wrong, from the very beginning, was that we gave our lives away to private interests. "Who cares if they reading my browsing history" flew out the window now that you basically cannot function in modern society without a mobile phone. Banks are switching to mandatory 2FA and touting it as if it's the greatest step we have taken yet towards a private and secure future, but what that means it that anyone who gets access to your phone gets access to your entire life.
Modern "connected" society is looking more and more like that quote from WOPR... "The winning move is not to play".

Back in the olden times, writers wrote the show as it aired since there was no binge-watching. This allowed for feedback to be immediately integrated. Fan-favorite characters were put in the spotlight, characters that failed to get a following were killed off, plot threads that got boring were cut short... The most famous example of this is Breaking Bad's Jesse, who was supposed to get killed off in the first season, but pretty much became an icon.
But today, a streaming service orders 8 episodes, they get written, filmed and released in batches. Because of this, there is no feedback to be integrated. The show exits the writing room, having been created with the writers in an ivory tower, and goes straight to filming. If you look back to the old classic, all of them changed heavily as they run, often within the same season.
This can't happen with today's batch-ordered shows, and it shows.

I disagree.
The calculator gives you the correct answer. If your math is wrong you will get an answer that makes no sense or straight up an error.
The "AI" gives you an answer and tries hard to convince you it's correct. You can only tell whether it's a good answer or not if you're capable of writing the good answer yourself, anyway.

The problem is that, recently, everything is harmful content if you believe it is.
Bomb-making info might be an obvious red flag, but what about a chemistry student asking which mixture is too volatile and it's components should be kept apart? Also, his next question just happens to be about designing a way of automating the mixture of two chemicals at the push of a button.

It's a textbook prisoner's dilemma. Taiwan's unique position as pretty much the world's sole chip factory puts a big target on it's back for both the enemies who want to take advantage of that power, or the "friends" who want to make sure the enemy doesn't get that power.
If every country has it's own backyards chip factory, would it really be worth against china to defend taiwan when an eventual chinese attack happened?
We don't have that good of a record of helping allies in a war they're meant to lose, like Ukraine where all we did was send tanks that breakdown and guns that get smuggled. Taiwan and China are watching that.

Bias expresses itself in educated people more than the uneducated ones because the educated ones can find more rational ways to justify their belief.
There was that one paper where they gave people a bunch of stats about nutrition, and everyone pretty much interpreted them correctly. But then they switched the labels for the same numbers and presented them as political ones, gun control and such, and suddenly the more educated the person was, the more "out there" their interpretations of the numbers became.
For some random schmuck, it's just god making it happen. But if you're very smart, rational and highly interested in seeing patterns, you will see patterns everywhere. And at that moment, if you want the model to be right, your brain WILL find ways to make it right.

Technically, what both give you is a way to spend your time and entertain yourself for a moment. They both exist to "waste your time", if you will.
A thought did cross my mind, though. With all these ways of entertaining yourself, video games, animation, movies, tiktok... These services are all competing for user's time. People can't play a pc video game while scrolling tiktok at the same time, they can't read a book while watching a movie, or watch tiktok videos while ALSO watching instagram reels.
But, interestingly, people can "watch" netflix while scrolling facebook. If anything, these two can work relatively well together to maximize attention drain. The little slow moments of a show or a movie can be used to scroll once or twice on facebook without losing much.
I would call it a symbiotic relationship, but it's more like these two are opportunistic parasites feeding on our dying attention spans.

As Plato said long ago: "Only those who don't seek power are qualified to hold it."

That was our original sleep pattern for most of human history, anyway. Only with the industrial revolution did we change to a singly nightly block of sleep. If anything, your kind of sleep pattern is healthier.

And yet, millions waste their days doomscrolling on apps designed to drain their time and spirit. There is no mystery why it exists, people simply want to fill their lives with something, and with enough time, that desire becomes a compulsion. An addiction that they cannot fight.
An interesting discussion would be this: If social media's value is a net negative, should it be outlawed? After all, we do outlaw drugs and harmful substances. What about mentally harmful products that, like drug addicts, users cannot resist?

I find the second movie to be even more interesting than the first as it asks an even more important question: Are you truly free?
The first one was about the simulation keeping people in a perpetual slumber, with only a rare few trying to wake up. The second one is about those who wake up and try to rebel discovering that rebelling is PART of the simulation. You're there fighting your jailer in this little arena he setup for you to safely blow off steam while you pat yourself on the back for being such a good rebel.
The parallels with our world's activist crowd is staggering.

We're reaching unreasonable hype levels so high that we're entering the "Plain ridiculous" stage now. Can I get access to the "Metaphysically Better" AI? Am sure that, with my feedback, it will become Astrally Supreme. Maybe even Intangibly enhanced.