Hello, I hope this is the right sub for this. I just read this post and it made me start thinking.

I could see the current problems and crisis collapsing modern industrial civilization. But I can also see a future where automation, and artificial wombs become a reality. There won't be a mass of unemployed. Instead the (human) economy will become mostly entertainment and service oriented. People will spend their time trying to come up with new ways to grab peoples interest, and new services nobody had thought of before. Society will fragment along groups of people in these niche interest groups. We already see this with young people online. Gen Z doesn't have a coherent reference point of art, music, etc. as a generation, because they have all split off into various internet communities. You are no longer forced to pick between a limited selection of analog mass media.

With actual production being so efficient and concentrated areas previously used for now redundant industries will now be opened up. Internet communities might jump into real life, people migrate to neighborhoods, cities, and regions that become the hubs of specific interest groups. Peoples identities will be based on their consumption habits. But that will not be the only source of new identity. This new hyper consumptive leisure based society will feel unethical for many people. Things like sex work will continue to become more and more normalized. There will be services catering to every desire imaginable. Sex will become more and more separated from reproduction and family formation. With contraception technology completely controlling our reproduction and new people being born artificially as needed only those who are interested in actually having kids will.

Those who feel horrified by this new society completely removed from nature and traditional morality and life, will split off into communities of different moral systems and faiths. Or those who still want to preserve their traditional ethnic communities and culture. We already see many people interested in homesteading and off grid living. These new communities will live an older more traditional lifestyle like the Amish, but ironically they'll just be another lifestyle/interest community like all the others. Traditional governments, and States will break down and collapse. New ones will form around these communities. There will be an exploration of morality itself, with many new communities of people testing and trying out new moral codes to deal with this new society.

I'm not that into astrology, but a philosopher on YouTube I watch who is into it commented that the new age of Aquarius we are entering, will be about material, and human matters. The age of Pisces was about man searching for transcendence, which is why you had figures like Jesus and religion being the focus of human affairs. In this new age people will be delving into exploring the depths of human nature, needs, wants, and what it even means to be human. If a world like this comes to pass, it would seem to fit that description.

It may come as no surprise to many of you that it is not easy nor cheap to get a patent in America. While it may be true that the application fees themselves are very reasonable you really need a patent lawyer. Just to get started it can cost thousands of dollars, and it can take ages to actually get the patent. Basically unless you are already independently wealthy, or have studied patent law yourself it's almost impossible.

This is where AI could make a huge difference. To be clear this is not a LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. It would need the ability to take actions over time and plan ahead. It would also need to solve problems involving mathmatics, physics, biology, and chemistry. I think of LLMs like an isolated language center of a brain. Where you would need other specialized types of AI that would interact during the process.

The patent office could work with tech companies first by getting the patents into a machine readable version, and providing ancillary information in the forms of texts that mentioned real life performance issues, or historical impact. This could include the relevant scientific breakthroughs that happened prior to the invention being developed.

This AI could be trained to spot problems with the patent like if it violates known laws of physics, or would be highly hazardous if used as intended. It could also offer solutions to the problems that exist with the machine/process. The ultimate goal would be something where a 10 year old can work with an AI to get a patent over time. In the process of this that hypothetical 10 year old would have a very patient teacher, and if it can actually create novel, useful, and innovative inventions then I think that would be solid evidence for a sort of Artifical General Intelligence. So this could be a potential benchmark to measure AI with. How close can it get you to getting a patent?

Loved this image when I first found this book so much that I have multiple copies of this book, and this woman tattooed on me.

Funny how this furniture doesn’t exist anymore.

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Global fertility rates are dropping and eventually the world population will start to decrease. Some people say it's good, others say it's bad. If this plays out as it appears it will, the working class will shrink and the structure of our society will have to adapt. This will all happen during a time of unprecedented technological and computational advances. How do you imagine it might impact civilization and daily life?