I live in an area where there are pedestrians stepping into the street without looking, all over the place, and you can drive / cycle without hitting them but have to slow down appropriately if you have to go near something that you can't see behind. Like you say it would be interesting to see the video.

As an average Joe I have easy access to Taylor Swift on youtube etc. AI junk is also there but I don't choose it and only force fed a very small amount by my friend who likes making it.

>I think the main conclusion that over the past half century, the ways people (at least in the US) spend their time have remained rather stable.

I suspect that will continue in spite of AI. Human nature doesn't change much.

I suspect that slop is fake! I don't think ChatGPT would have said "endlessly move the goal posts".

People certainly think about defence and invasions. AI millitary drones are already a thing in Ukraine https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/01/02/ukrain...

Also rockets hitting the power plants there is not ususual.

well in general it still is unusual, because it is considered "against the human rights". It will become more common and accepted, if everything is connected with AI. Then the primary goal in one invasion will be turn off the AI and therefore turn off the lights.

In the UK 10litres of water and 10kwh of power cost about £2.50. Hiring someone to dig holes probably runs 50x that.

I think US social issues and AI are rather separate. We have quite a few AI worriers from the UK, Hinton being maybe the best known.

If you look at real world examples of machines replacing jobs like in the industrial revolution it didn't really go like that. The rich didn't monopolise everything because competition reduced the profits and the works moved on to other jobs like the ones we do today.

The "let's kill parasites" stuff has arisen more in land grabs to clear the indigenous people, not due to tech.

In the UK we have approx 22 million adults doing not much so you can see it in developed places too.

Googling Bangladesh unemployment seems to be 4.7% and GDP growth has averaged about 7% so not so different to elsewhere apart from faster growth from a low base?