Depends.

Is it the case that everyone can stop working hard, or that some people get to do that while others get to work even harder to support that working hard?

If Norway gets to slack off and have a fantastic lifestyle, but only because they can import just tons of crap from more exploitative countries, that wouldn't be good.

If everyone around the world gets to slack off and still sustain a great lifestyle, then fantastic. This is in fact the goal, we should be thinking not of "can I get enough work" and more "can I have a good living?", but it needs to be considered as consistently as is feasible across the board.

This was one of the points in the story "Manna" that drove me nuts. Among other issues, they describe with sincerity a utopian socialist paradise, but they will only take so many people because that's all they can afford and leave behind those that didn't buy into the utopia when it could have just been a scam to suffer in dystopian societies. They explicitly expressed disdain for the unseen wealthy class for ignoring the plight of the less fortunate, then promptly have only a few people saved to the utopia while leaving most of the people in poverty behind to not help them either. Arguably even less, as the poverty class at least had housing and sustenance provided for by the dystopia, while the utopia explicitly left them to be "someone else's problem".

If you say the numerical representation of wealth can endlessly grow, sure, that's just a number. There's no such thing as objective, true numerical value, so if you have a system that is predicated on "line always goes up", you can make that system function even under static constraints by somehow changing how the numbers map to reality.

To his credit, he points to non-money indicators, like ability to succeed on tests.

It is fair to say that we can't consume exponentially more resources or create exponentially more physical goods every year, but ultimately we want to advance our standard of living and folks to do their fair part, so you don't end up with a hypothetical like one nation enjoys the high life with 8 hours worked per week while importing gob tons of stuff from another country where people work 80 hours a week.

Being sustainable can and should be part of the model. If we just went to coasting on our advancements in the 50s, we'd not have a lot of potentially sustainable advancements.

It's certainly a very weird thing to try to distill something as nuanced and complex as all of our resources, time, and thought into a single metric, yet we try and that number is flexible enough to, in theory, support infinite growth. The problem is less the absolute value, but discrepancies in how those values manifest person to person.

NSA_KEY is already taken too.

No mod points today but your volunteer effort far surpassed the [presumably paid] author's WTAF essay.

Right, so in Norway nobody is going hungry, dying from being too poor to afford medical treatment, being kept down by an inability to access education, having to go in to work when they're sick, or freezing to death on the streets because they're out of options?

"They've got a huge problem!"

So say people whose own countries have all those problems and spend more on worse outcomes.

The Norwegians' biggest risk is "good times make weak men" but at least one author I listen to on YouTube indicates that Viking Culture is still alive and well there (though he does bemoan creeping feminine wokeness). Second might be that the YooKay decides Norway had the temerity to build their nation on YooKay's oil (given their complete 200y failure to colonize Russia). In that case they will need the Viking Spriit.

The cynic might believe that such an author's complaints are meant to create shame in order to extract more work out or their labor force for corporate profits. Though it does stand in contrast to the Transhumanists' AI/UBI/CBDC societal aspirations.

Ask Cambodians if they're glad they've avoided Norway's folly.

LLM making people stupid, or is it that stupid people are blindly trusting LLM output?

Of course, this is a problem in a society where we greatly reward people heavily affected by Dunning-Kruger, and LLMs are the king of that.

Do you mean the mass market media where MBAs have moved studios toward milquetoast cheap slop when they get the chance?

Or the "brainrot" short form content that is kind of similar to the super lame the we would do at that age, but now video and distribution is free so the whole world gets to see it?

Well the good news is that at least sometimes the slop flops and studios get reminded they can't just dump any old thing and get success.

Of the younger generation I interact with, they are more likely to know and like a song from a YouTuber from no where, and half of the tracks I hear wouldn't have sounded out of place in the 60s, much to my surprise, with some decent musical depth and theory and not just the nth assemblage of attractive people designated to perform the same chord progression to just take in the money.

Innate capability and not fulfilling one's potential by wasting time are really two separate causes of being 'stupid'.

To argue for the point, none of the inventions you mention have offered the promise of doing your thinking for you.

I can see both sides but definitely some people will never achieve depth on any subject if they're asking an LLM to present a surface level analysis.

Yet some may say if an LLM can do it that's not what Humans are best at.

Predicting this future witht any certainty seems like the most Dunning-Kruger possible by the authors.

Did you notice his handle?

It might be a reference to how Biden broke his foot 'pulling his dog's tail in the shower'.

German Shepard, but the GP probably would have to ask ChatGPT what the difference is.

I can't imagine loving a politician who doesn't even know me but some people are weird.

This is interesting so it raises the question of whether other hurricanes strengthened last time this layering happened and one passed over.

That this storm strengthened /exactly/ when a solar storm hit Earth seemed like a more promising anomaly but a strong dataset would support their hypothesis and rule out a massive coincidence.

As the meme says, "we knew more about the Coldplay Kisscam couple after one day than we know about Matthew Crooks after one year."

Be careful about what people find interesting but be even more careful about what people find anti-interesting.

Especially the "free press".

I've already started my AI UltraSuperDuper Intelligence unit, so they are way behind.

Yeah and those people would have thrown a bricked bike through the front window of their corporate headquarters.

Amazon tried real hard to upsell me a wifi sprinkler timer yesterday.

Ha, no, the $18 microcontroller-based timer will do just fine. They could have temped me with a Matter/Threads unit but no, they don't try that hard. Doesn't "Work with Alexa".

Imagine my garden dying because a tree fell on the Comcast line and it took a few days to rebuild. Such weird expectations! I wonder how many "smart" households went bonkers during the 4hr Starlink outage?

In the GSR (Gossip, Shame, Rallying) Model this is a biological imperative.

So you would expect high costs to be easily paid if the model is accurate and the service fills the need.

Some might say the theory fits the data.

I'm that weirdo who won't save fifty cents on a can of Spaghetti O's by signing up for a "loyalty" surveillance card but most people aren't in the slim minorities.

25% still seems a bit high to me. I do wonder if they really have forgotten how to do long division, or simply forgot what the words 'long division' mean. Like if you told them to work a division problem by hand, would they naturally just do long division, forgetting that was all that long division meant?