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Great thinkers of old lacked awareness of experimentation and thought that have come along since.

That and being a genius was easy when the majority were functionally illiterate disciples of the religion they grew up in.

Yeah I have a BSc in math, MSc in physics. Am familiar with the variety of technologies that exist due to understanding those topics.

It must feel very empowering to construct those sentences. Lindy effect is ticking on all of it and humanity. Despite those accomplishments, we’re not going to break physics; humanity will cease to exist.

We’ve burned up a lot of our own runway via resource consumption on consumer shovelgear/wear. Put the toxic positivity spin on it all you want, there is no moat when we use up Earth diddling our good feels, changing nothing but the speed at which we exhaust ourselves.

Fingers crossed the decline in obligation to preserve religious memes breaks us free from social stagnation and normalization (though the olds are trying to perpetuate through economic memes) and allow us to live organically, devalue things we get bored with, as our brains seem to do organically:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen...

Trends in such a direction:

https://www.deseret.com/23583331/teens-smartphones

https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/02/21/teens-no...

Industrial controls that stabilize logistics are one kind of technology. Online thought policing via social media and the gadgets that provide it are huge wastes. Titillating to the olds, but banal and normalized to the kids.

What we get out of these gadgets is addiction to peering into them for answers and filling an existential hole like astrology. Meanwhile tomorrow will go by just the same as yesterday.

Technology isn’t altering physics, it’s operates within the boundaries set by experiment a century ago.

It’s not curtailing human social problems that have existed since forever.

Trade offs in society just like engineering; arguments it saves people from exploitation at home but airplanes and modern tracking enable large scale human trafficking. The yearly resource consumption for yearly phone updates is insane.

If designer drugs that implanted experience made line go up that’s the technology we have. But what we do have makes line go up; why bother with other ideas?

Social zeitgeist is to see consumer tech as allowing us to experience and achieve magical things as with astrology, yet daily life is still right there too. We’re addicted to juicing our own biochemistry with video games because drugs are bad mmmk