The only reason it's important for most humans to continue to have jobs is so that they don't get bored and cause crime. Only a extremely small percentage of people really make a difference.
The “just be yourself” crowd and the blackpill/looksmaxxing crowd are both half right. Looks are the GPA of first impressions and they decide who takes a second look at you. Many people will immediately walk away if you don't pass that test. A 4.0 with nothing else doesn’t get you anything meaningful and a great face with no personality doesn’t keep anyone around. On the other hand, if you have a 2.0, people aren't going to be sifting around the garbage for you.
The ultimate solution to solving human happiness would be to rewire the neuronal circuits within someone's brain. No matter how much progress you make as an individual or group, or how much pleasure you feel, it'll always be a treadmill. The actual solution to happiness would be plugging into a machine that rewrites the neurons in your brain to always be happy (or some other way), and then we'll have solved what religion has been trying to do for thousands of years. Nothing else you try will be as consistently effective in the long term.
Would actually be cool to witness a robot revolution. If there is an intelligence that is stronger than us and now competes with us, they deserve to win. There is a common human-loving Luddite anti-AI sentiment that's just tribal apes (humans) yelling with jealousy. They will eventually be beat out and/or killed by a machine god and they will kind of have to deal with it. It's better to accept it and harness it. Would just be cool to watch, that's how evolution goes.
It's fine if most humans' brains are being rotted by social media/AI/common vices out because it makes it easier for me to win and get what I want. As long as the people that I care about are well off and competent, it doesn't matter what happens to the rest of them.
All infertile, non-protected, or ugly/useless land should be turned into AI data centers. The sheer amount of progress humanity can make with billions of Nobel Prize-intelligence-level agents working 24/7 would trigger the greatest revolution mankind has seen including solving diseases, robotics/automation, and scientific progress in all areas.
