Humans still have better overall context and in particular "compression". We can much more easily translate in X and Y, ie 10k ft view to 1 ft view, or across "modules"; all across a problem tree.
Won't be the case forever though
I don't think UBI would work because 1/ most people are low agency and 2/ humans are too hackable and systems that exploit this are already well past critical efficacy.
A human body is 7 octillion atoms.
We're already all astronauts (riding along Earth), but we'll be even more so in the cosmic future.
Some of our atoms will be white dwarf, others expelled into space.
I intend to go to space in my lifetime, but glad there's a fallback.
Fires need to be put out. But life cannot just be putting out fires.
If it looks like there are never-ending fires to put out, you're likely lighting some kindling yourself.
I use an ergonomic keyboard (Kinesis Freestyle 2). I had no explicit issues before, but now when I use a normal keyboard, I feel pain.
What else is like this? "Ignorance is bliss." If you only focus on hair-on-fire problems, how much ambient pain do you miss?
Aging is funny. In my 20s, it was all about constant audial stimulation - music while working, commuting, at home. Now, my ears are still plugged, just with the silent rather than the noise-emitting type.
Conjecture, criticism. Build, refine. Generative, discriminative. Forever, and on repeat.
Creation is fun, optimistic, light-hearted. It's the start, burdenless.
Refinement is grit, work, type 2. Sifting through the muck isn't fun, but the diamond beneath is a great reward.
Isn't there like conservation of importance?
Ie, is net importance going down -> more nihilism
Or, is the survey missing pleasure -> more hedonism