If we end up triggering a self-sustaining feedback loop, that's how I understand it, yeah. We still do have some very high risk strategies we could implement, like solar shielding to reduce total light reaching the earth, or bioengineering plants that suck up carbon super efficiently, but it's hard to say what the impacts of those would be
trafguy
joined 2 years ago
Reminds me of this discussion of how a scene/subculture grows and evetnaully dies: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Feels like federated social networks are creating a new fresh scene, and there's now an influx of new users (including myself)
The best job I could ever hope for would let me find arbitrary projects to work on, at whatever pace I'm comfortable with. Doing the same type of work day after day will get boring/tiring for me no matter what it is, no matter how complex or simple, how isolated or social.
I've basically started picking up random productive hobbies around my day job that take over my life until I finish them or the grind of life obligations makes me put it down to be forgotten.
I'm curious where we'll be if we can move towards a future with a living wage UBI and people can choose to be productive in whatever way suits them. How would people fill their time?
Yeah, it's frustrating how expensive those evals can be. I couldn't even get them to give me a price when I was looking into it. Because I couldn't agree without knowing the cost, they suggested someone else who wouldn't do a full psych eval, but would bill it (mostly) as a normal psychiatrist visit and give a more general "yes or no" answer. Maybe that's an option? Insurance might be more willing to cover that too.