I miss scarcity

I highly recommend Sam Harris’s podcasts. He has a PhD in Nuroscience and as in depth interviews with the top experts in the field… the guys doing this. Interviews are two hours long each and there are probably a dozen. He carefully and deeply examines different educated points of view.
 

For instance:

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/379-regulating-artificial-intelligence
 

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/332-can-we-contain-artificial-intelligence
 

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/324-debating-the-future-of-ai
 

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/essentials/making-sense-of-artificial-intelligence
 

@kennymacc 100% bro! The human element is being removed right before our very eyes. I yearn for the 70’s and 80’s and not because I was younger but because the world was a much simpler, slower place. And so much better, IMHO. 
 

I so miss going to malls especially during the Holidays. It was fun, festive, people were in great moods doing their shopping, spending time together-and this was the true point of it all. Everyone was engaged with each other chatting in lines, sitting in the food court talking to each other. That’s all gone now. When I do go to a mall it’s dull, dreary, everyone is completely oblivious and buried in their phones. Even in lines and sitting in the food court every single head is down with fingers moving 100 miles an hour…so sad…
 

One of my co-workers (much younger at 27, I’m 56) asked if I wished I was younger because I throw my age out a lot😂. I said absolutely not, I wish I were older so I could retire now. I so do not want to be younger in today’s world. Now put me back in the 80’s and be young again, DEFINITELY! I feel blessed to have grown up when I did. Wouldn’t trade that or my memories for anything!

Just to add in a musician / audio engineer / producer's perspective - not only as the listener has the value of music been diminished, but also the value of the creative's work.  It will only get worse as AI slop continues to infect Spotify/Soundcloud and the like.

I think this is a call for listeners to support their favorite artists with the only thing that actually helps - money, shares, reposts, etc.  Use bandcamp, patreon, or whatever form the artists use for support.  If you recall the days of buying a CD for $13+, then you can at least hook up your favorite artists with a crisp $20 on occasion.  If you can afford your $10,000 amplifier, surely you can afford more than your streaming subs for your artists.  End PSA

@kingbr 

I’m 66, and I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly!!!   I too, long for the good old days of the 70s and 80s.  And, as you mentioned, not just because I was a young man then, but because of the way America was then.  Happy listening.

I am 75 and i concur...

I could had certainly wrote this post...

I cannot even compare the state of mind of young people, opportunities, in 1970 to what there is today... 

My worst nightmare would be being born nowadays... or having twenty facing a closing set of walls everywhere on all levels... Work, owning a house, medecine with technocrats,marrying and having children... And i cannot imagine myself after the top education i was lucky to have at no cost being 12 today at school ..

My children were a bit luckier to have 40 now but less lucky that i was i am so sorry for everyone having  20 now...

It will be paradise here soon but in 100 years...After wars, plagues,economic collapsus...

@kingbr 

I’m 65 and I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly!!!   Happy listening.

@kingbr 

I’m 65 and I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly!!!   Happy listening.