Open Questions For June 2025
zion Fri, Jun 13, 2025
- What's going to be valuable in the next 1>3>5 vs 10-20 years as AI gets better and better? Be very very specific with my imagination on what I should be spending my time doing, and how I value things differently
- Why are we all so narcisstic? How did it become the defining character trait, how do you ever 'solve' narcissim or is it always a coping mechanism, and what are the implications on politics/economics/everything else? actually this seems to be the main
- Demographics: what changes as boomers die off, and how will a new generation of people without kids act? How will governments react to these issues?
- What are the implications of America's debt crisis? Why has the US market performed so well vs other equity markets? Why is crypto so in favour now vs in the past?
- What are the implications of exponentially improving biotechnology? Specifically artificial wombs, embryo selection technologies for intelligence and other healthy traits (what biotech stocks are mispositioned for earnings misses/surprises when these things happen), biotechnology?
- What are the implications of nuclear modular reactors and other advances in energy?
- What are the implications of AVs and drones? Rollout will be super long term, but how do I play real estate and other busineses off of these waves?
- Why is there 'alpha' in human happiness? I look at what Joe Hudson is saying, and it seems so 'obvious' to me that it's the right wya to act, but I guess you haev to fuck up, and perenially humans always choose to fuckup, and hence there's very little progress. But why hasn't western science taken seriously breathwork, bodywork, meditation, etc as ways to deal with personality problems. What's the science behind these?
- When does cultural evolution breakdown and when does it work? It's responsible for what makes humans special, but also the inability to 'adapt' screws over people during regime shifts, e.g look at the natives who lacked the cultural tools to win the war + thrive in modernity, vs Jewish tribes.