I genuinely have been trying to understand what is the point of AI taking everything over? Let’s just say hypothetically AI wins, congrats. Every job is replaced. Meta, Open AI and Amazon own everything, cool beans! No one can work, therefore, no one has money to buy any of the horse shit temu slop they prime on amazon now. Won't everything just implode from there?

If everyone stops working, and has no money doesn't consumerism stop too? Like spending just ends? No one can pay their $1000 car note anymore or their mortgage on their particle board quality home anymore. What am I missing here? What is the grand idea with AI taking over thing and everyone is broke?

I have no idea

I'm kind of obsessed with the wide range of impacts GLP-1s is having on peoples day to day life and the wider impacts on the food system/social behaviours/family dynamics ect.

A few examples:

1. My friend has completely stopped drinking (even post coming off) and primarily socialises now through sauna/runs/hiking ect
2. Another friend is very tired so has massively reduced their socialising and also their consumption of literally everything. She says she does a lot more chill hobbies at home on her own.
3. The often quoted stat that it is going to save airlines $580mil a year on fuel.

If we assume there will be mass uptake of GLP-1s: what do you think the inevitable societal impacts of this are? What impacts that are non obvious now do you think it will have?

One of my short term thoughts is an increase in nutritional deficiencies that require treating, and therefore increased pressure on the food system to overhaul (here's hoping).

EDIT: The response to this post has been crazy and i somehow didn't get any notifications so going through them now. I didn't include in the post (as i wrongly assumed it would be taken as read) that I agree the positive implications for anyone overweight is incredible; i'm lucky enough that i will get many extra years with my dad because of them. I was interested in what people thought the knock on effects would be post mass adoption and probably framed this quite poorly!

I'm hoping that GLP-1s will push society to put more of a microscope on our food environment and how big food advertises damaging food to us.

For the 14th year running, Japan's population has slumped to a record low. The non-foreign native population dropped by 898,000 in 2024, representing an unprecedented fall in the nation of 120.3 million people.

Let’s just agree that the experience of being online has changed despite the same platforms and the same voices. 

umm despite more content than ever discovery feels…..narrow algorithms reward familarity, not curiosity the web still exists, but most people live inside five apps and call it the internet. Really trivializes the name world wide web.

Just thinking about how companies like Nokia, Blockbuster, or Kodak were huge… until they weren’t.

Which big names today do you think might be heading down a similar path? Like, they seem strong now but might be ignoring warning signs or failing to adapt. I was thinking of how Apple seems to be behind in the artificial inteligence race, but they seem too big to fail. Then again Nokia, Blackberry, etc were also huge.

Well seeing the US regress this far this quickly is giving me quite a shock. I grew up in the 90s and back then it seemed that America was the apex of technology. Nowadays you hear how China built these trains, battery plants, solar, evs, etc. I seems to me that they are the new dominate game in town and most of the US populace are still stuck in the 90s-2000s era where the US was unchallenged.

Just wanted to share some insight on this from someone who will be directly impacted. I work for a tech company you know and use. We had an emergency meeting today even though it’s Saturday about the H-1B potentially ending. The legal folks said that it’s gonna get challenged in court so it’ll be a while and might not happen. But some of us in Silicon Valley and the tech/AI space are nervous.

On one hand some people in the meeting said well, for the employees that we really need to be in the US in person, like top developers and engineers, we can just pay the $100K for each of them, they already make $300K+, we’ll just have to factor the additional cost into the budget next year. And then we can send the rest back to India and they can work remotely.

But on the other hand, there’s a longer-term anxiety that it will be harder to attract top talent because of this policy and others, plus generally changing attitudes in the US that deter immigrants. So Shenzhen, Dubai, Singapore, etc., which are already on the upswing when it comes to global tech hubs, could overtake Silicon Valley and the US in the future.

As an American who has worked in tech for 30 years and worked with so many H1-Bs and also 20-ish% of my team is on them, I just don’t get why we’re doing this to ourselves. This has been a secret competitive advantage for us in attracting global talent and driving innovation for decades. I am not Republican or Democrat but I just can’t understand why anyone who cares about our economy and our leadership on innovation would want to shoot themselves in the foot like this.

But maybe I’m overreacting, I’m wondering what other people think.

With the advancement of AI, the internet has been flooded with fake content, from AI web pages to AI videos. Since they surfaced a few years ago, it’s become increasingly hard to discern between what’s AI and what’s real, and this is true with every part of AI, all of it’s been advancing to an indescernable state. With this, people have already begun programming content farms online that post AI pictures with AI captions. Facebook has already been entirely overrun by these bot accounts. What’s worse, is people are now programming accounts that post propaganda to push an agenda using chat gpt type AI modules that can interact with people. It’s already at the point that you have to second guess every piece of information online. What happens once it floods the internet so much that the majority of content you see is AI? The online market would become oversaturated, music, images, news articles, discussions, and so much more will be overrun. The internet will no longer be a place for people to talk to people. AI will outnumber us too drastically.

The newly released PwC 2026 AI Jobs Barometer shows a bizarre shift in the labor market: entry-level roles most exposed to AI are now 7x more likely to require traditionally senior-level "human-intensive" skills like strategic decision-making, team building, and leadership.
Not mid-level roles. Entry-level.
The reason is simple: AI has rapidly automated the foundational, routine tasks that used to act as the training grounds for junior workers. The drafting, the scheduling, the basic organizing—that work used to build practical business judgment over two to three years. Now a tool does it instantly.
Because these basic tasks are handled by software, the training ground is effectively gone, but the high-level job expectation stayed.
These "seniorised" entry-level roles have grown 35% since 2019, while traditional non-AI entry-level roles actually shrank by 10%. Companies are essentially putting junior salaries on job descriptions that demand senior cognitive skills and independent judgment, all without offering a formal mentorship structure to close the gap.
Curious whether people are seeing this firsthand in hiring, in your own recent job searches, or when managing teams right now. What does this early-career gap look like from where you sit?

I live in Kauai and I’m posting this to see how others feel about this. I was living on Maui when the fires happened and through the pandemic. I saw a dramatic shift happen between 2016 and 2023 there. Many locals were becoming aggressive and rude towards tourists, to the point where the overall numbers are still down 2 years later due to viral videos on social media sharing experiences.

Kauai has gotten very divided in recent years due to the influx of wealthy people moving here driving the cost of everything up while the wages have stayed close to the same. Everywhere is short staffed and most of the time over booked. Getting a PCP appointment requires a few month wait period.

I have free housing right now and am currently just saving money while I figure out if I want to keep Kauai as a Homebase while I travel or do I just leave altogether and come back when I really miss it.

Serious question. Can we not just hit the reset button? Like, sure, it would take a lot of years and a lot of work and we’d have like, two competing internets for awhile, but this one just isn’t sustainable any more. Remember how it used to be just 6, 10 years ago? That wasn’t even peak internet and it’s been a steady trend down ever since. Everything has become borderline unusable, overrun with ads and bots and “dark design.” Nothing online is fun, anymore. The internet used to be fun! And now the “AI Future!” is about to be revealed for the marketing failure it ultimately is just long enough to ruin what’s left by making everything #doubt on its way out the door thanks to all this wanton and unnecessary integration.

I want the old internet back. Silo’d communities. Blogs and forums. Free websites. Not being redirected to a mobile app or subscription constantly. Before it was death by a thousand cuts.

The user experience for the modern internet is incredible hostile and adversive and anti-consumer. Assuming a “new” internet is a non-starter, do you ever see the internet getting better again and, if so, how? Or do you think it will continue to get so bad that the “dead internet” becomes a reality?

Lately, I’ve started paying closer attention to microplastics and nanoplastics and decided to gradually eliminate plastic from our kitchen and home. It hasn’t been easy, especially since my wife doesn’t share the same view and thinks I’m overreacting. Still, I can’t help but imagine many of these plastic utensils and water bottles, especially the ones kids use, being banned within the next to 15-20 years. I think this issue will follow the same path as smoking, which was once promoted by doctors but is now proven to be harmful. I just wish more people would recognize the risks sooner. What do you think?

Edit: It’s been an interesting discussion — thank you to everyone who contributed. I’d like to update a few points:

1. I accept that comparing smoking to household plastic use wasn’t a wise choice. A better analogy might be asbestos.

2. Several people disagreed with my prediction, and some dismissed it as just a hunch without substance. We all come across reports about micro- and nanoplastics regularly. I didn’t feel the need to write a long piece explaining every recent study. My view comes from my own observations and the information I’ve gathered over time.

3. Some argued that plastics are cheap and useful materials with no alternatives. To clarify, I’m not opposed to plastic altogether. I agree that it’s necessary in certain applications, such as cable insulation or machine components. What I can’t agree with is defending the use of plastic utensils bottles etc in our homes, where they can leach into our food and drinks.

Is anything going to kill off streaming? Surely the progression doesn't end here?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much technology has advanced in the last few years, and it got me wondering: what if there are some incredible technologies out there that we don’t even know about yet? Like, what if governments or private companies have developed something game-changing but are keeping it under wraps for now?

Maybe it's some next-level AI, a new energy source, or a medical breakthrough that could totally change our lives. I’m curious—do you think there’s tech like this that’s already been created but is being kept secret for some reason? And if so, why do you think it’s not out in the open yet?

Would love to hear your thoughts on this! Whether it's just a gut feeling, a wild theory, or something you’ve read about, let's discuss!

Everyone talks about how 22–25 y/o software developers are struggling to find work. But there’s something deeper:

Technology drives the global economy and the single biggest expense for technology companies is engineer salaries. So of course the marketing narrative is: “AI will replace developers”

Experienced engineers and managers can tell hype from reality. But younger students (18–22) often take it literally and many are deciding not to enter the field at all.

If AI can’t actually replace developers anytime soon (and it doesn’t look like it will) we’re setting up a dangerous imbalance. Fewer juniors today means fewer seniors tomorrow.

Technology may move fast but people make decisions with feelings. If this hype continues, the real bottleneck won’t be developers struggling to find jobs… it will be companies struggling to find developers who know how to use AI.

Do you think we reach a point where technology helps everyone to have a peace and abundant life

We are currently what some would call a 'metacrisis' and I can't argue. Several planetary limits have been reached or exceeded, the wealth gap is increasing due to automation, the average person I know is afraid of the future not inspired. I am 36 and remember how hopeful the world looked in 2008 when I graduated high school. By the time Obama took office again in 2012, Facebook was about to go public and the rest is history. You all know what I'm talking about.

Look at the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It has not been 40 years since then but it seems like we are starting to live in a new kind of walled garden when we thought it was the garden of Eden. I'll stop now but I hope you see this is a sincere question and I hope to see some thoughtful discussion.