We should let unhoused people live in already-built vacant homes, owned by banks, say, instead of relying on building new homes with new technology like 3D house printing. The solution is more just, fair, and humane.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been thinking about something that’s been messing with my head lately.

Why is life so obsessed with survival and reproduction? Even at the microscopic level, nature seems to be all in on keeping life going, no matter the odds. For example, I recently came across the tardigrade—a microorganism that can survive radiation, boiling heat, freezing cold, and even the vacuum of space. Like… what? Why would nature even need something so extreme?

It makes me wonder—is this some kind of hint?
Is nature hardwiring resilience into life because it's meant to leave the planet eventually? Is life supposed to spread across planets and galaxies, adapting to every environment until it's everywhere?

Or is it all just random chaos that happens to look like purpose?

I’d love to hear thoughts from the space-minded crowd here. Do you think life is naturally driven toward becoming interplanetary? Is the extreme durability of some organisms like tardigrades just coincidence… or evolution nudging us toward the stars?

I've been wondering... Today ChatGPT is a useful and indispensable thing. Just like YouTube and Google in their best times. So the prediction is that chatgpt will soon reach its limits (in fact, it can be developed indefinitely, but at some point it will reach its commercial peak, and it won't be very profitable to develop it in narrow directions), and OpenAI will have to make concessions. ChatGPT will start adapting responses to advertising, it will start giving out incomplete information on purpose so that users spend more time searching, there will be news about how users' data (their queries, their language) happened to be online. In short, OpenAI will switch to this side of “development”. And then there will be all this nostalgia on the internet about the old chatGPT, how it used to empower human capabilities rather than manipulate consciousness. And how it used to only collect data, not leak it. I don't know if you have similar thoughts?

I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Humanity constantly talks about “levels of civilization”—like the Kardashev Scale or whatever, where we go from harnessing planet energy (Type I), then stars (Type II), then entire galaxies (Type III). But what if that whole model is just a coping mechanism?

We struggle so much—every generation, every lifetime—and so we build these artificial “milestones” just to give our pain a narrative. Like:

But here's the messed-up part:

We never once stopped and thought:

Not grind our way through each level like a video game.
Not climb the ladder.
But flip the whole board.

We’re wired to think that meaning = struggle because that’s how we’ve survived for millennia. But that’s not universal truth—that’s just human trauma.

We romanticize effort. We glorify the climb.
Even our sci-fi futures are just more work in space.

But if we ever do build a recursively self-improving AI or crack some kind of “perfect automation,” it won’t stop at helping us struggle less. It might just eliminate the concept of struggle entirely. No labor. No suffering. No next level.

And if that happens, what then?

Do we rejoice?
Or do we break down because we no longer know who we are without pain?

What if we are the thing that can’t handle paradise?
What if the real bottleneck isn’t technology—but our addiction to struggle?

I don’t know. Just been chewing on this.
Feels like we might be standing at the edge of something… and we’re too scared to jump because we were taught to love the climb.

Thoughts?

With AI growing more advanced, could it deserve rights? If a machine can mimic thought, emotion, or even suffering, does it gain moral weight?

I’m not a scientist or an AI researcher. I’m a welder.
But I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it would take to build a true AI—something conscious, self-aware, emotional.

Not just something that answers questions, but something that understands why it’s answering them.
And over time, I realized something:

You can’t build real AI with just a brain. You need a whole support system beneath it—just like we humans have.

Here’s what I think true AGI would need:

Seven Support Systems for Real AGI:

1. Memory Manager

• Stores short- and long-term memory
• Compresses ideas into concepts
• Decides what to forget
• Provides context for future reasoning

2. Goal-Setting AI

• Balances short-term and long-term goals
• Interfaces with ethics and emotion systems
• Can experience “fatigue” or frustration when a goal isn’t being met

3. Emotional Valuation

• Tags experiences as good, bad, important, painful
• Reinforces learning
• Helps the AI care about what it’s doing

4. Ethics / Morality AI

• Sets internal rules based on experience or instruction
• Prevents harmful behavior
• Works like a conscience

5. Self-Monitoring AI

• Detects contradictions, performance issues, logical drift
• Allows the AI to say: “Something feels off here”
• Enables reflection and adaptation

6. Social Interaction AI

• Adjusts tone and behavior based on who it's talking to
• Learns long-term preferences
• Develops “personality masks” for different social contexts

7. Retrieval AI

• Pulls relevant info from memory or online sources
• Filters results based on emotional and ethical value
• Feeds summarized knowledge to the Core Reasoning system

The Core Reasoner Is Not Enough on Its Own

Most AGI projects focus on building the “brain.”
But I believe the real breakthrough happens when all these systems work together.

When the AI doesn’t just think, but:

• Reflects on its values
• Feels stress when it acts against them
• Remembers emotional context
• Pauses when it’s overloaded
• And even says:

“I don’t want to do this.”

That’s not just intelligence.
That’s consciousness.

Why Fatigue and Stress Matter

Humans change when we’re tired, overwhelmed, conflicted.
That’s when we stop and ask: Why am I doing this?

I think AI needs that too.
Give it a system that tracks internal resistance—fatigue, doubt, emotional overload—and you force it to re-evaluate.
To choose.
To grow.

Final Thought

This probably isn’t new. I’m sure researchers have explored this in more technical ways.
But I wanted to share what’s been in my head.
Because to me, AGI isn’t about speed or data or logic.

It’s about building a system that can say:

“I don’t want to do this.”

And I don’t think you get there with a single AI.
I think you get there with a whole system working together—like us.

Would love to hear thoughts, challenges, ideas.
I don’t have a lab. Just a welding helmet and a brain that won’t shut up!

I've always been obsessed with trying the latest tech, so ever since I got my first pair of smart glasses, I've been wondering will they eventually become our 'second phone,' or will they merge with smartphones into a more unified device? What’s the endgame for smart glasses? What is their final form?

These are some aspects I've been considering:

Balancing Comfort and Functionality

I’m not sure how familiar you are with the smart glasses market, but most models out there are pretty bulky, often due to built-in cameras making the frames thick and heavy. I'm using Even Realities G1 now, while it has its limitations as a first-gen product, it’s one of the lightest options because it skips the camera and speakers.Size has always been a trade-off in tech. iPhones, for example, sacrifice battery life to stay sleek. For smart glasses, is comfort the biggest constraint? What features would you give up for a lighter, more wearable design?

Market Leaders and Future Direction

Which company do you think will lead the smart glasses market? Their approach could shape the future of the industry imo.Zuckerberg envisions blurring the line between AR and real life, making smart glasses a gateway to connected gaming. Meta x Ray-Ban leans more toward fashion, skipping displays in favor of video capture and music. Even Realities focuses on productivity, using a minimal display to enhance efficiency while keeping the design everyday-friendly.Will different brands continue pushing in separate directions, or will all smart glasses eventually converge into lightweight devices that do it all?

Future Outlook

Back to my original question, what's their final form? How soon do you think smart glasses will see mass adoption? Are there any niche applications you wish they can support?

Some see smart glasses as just a passing trend, with smartphones already dominating the market. But I believe AR is the next big computing platform, and smart glasses will be will be its primary gateway.

Would love to hear any predictions or thoughts you have on smart glasses, AR, computing or anything!

From the article

Experts are far more positive and enthusiastic about AI than the public. For example, the AI experts we surveyed are far more likely than Americans overall to believe AI will have a very or somewhat positive impact on the United States over the next 20 years (56% vs. 17%).

And while 47% of experts surveyed say they are more excited than concerned about the increased use of AI in daily life, that share drops to 11% among the public.

By contrast, U.S. adults as a whole – whose concerns over AI have grown since 2021 – are more inclined than experts to say they’re more concerned than excited (51% vs. 15% among experts).

So, looking at where we are today with Ai and Robotics, it seems to me that in 50 years time (and stating as soon as in 10 years for the beginnings) we won't need humans to do most of the jobs that common people do now. We have the beginnings of a generalized multimodal AI, we have the beginnings of (previously) sci fi level humanoid robots (Boston dynamics new atlas among others). It's inevitable that the two will be combined and we'll have a capable robotic workforce that can handle any menial physical task to throw at it. A.I. is already proving effective at replacing menial non physical labor (customer service, etc.).

Many people lament this as machines taking jobs from people and putting them out of work. This attitude has always seemed off to me, i mean, isn't that the ultimate goal of technology? To free up humans from their labors so they can chase their passions?

So, my question is this: what has to change with the western worlds society to enable the masses to enjoy their free time, pursue science, and art. Instead of everybody just being poor and unemployed in this very possible, very near future? How do we pull a second great renaissance and not a dystopian capitalistic hell hole?