Jolteon

But how else would they feel superior to everyone else?

I mean, it’s effectively the same thing as just going to sleep and waking up in the web.

WTF kind of prompts did you enter to get that as a response?

Oh no, it would be way worse than that. If water can’t exist, then it’s very likely that the concept of molecules as we know them don’t exist either, or at the minimum, either hydrogen or oxygen doesn’t exist.

Hot take, but the propagandized version would likely be better, since your goal is to find out the present day conditions rather than actual history. What a government wants its citizens to think (and more importantly, how it expects them to behave) is probably more important than finding out actual details of history that early in your stay.

If your only goal is to find out the current culture of the place you’re currently in, the biased one would likely be better.

That really only matters at higher levels of communication, not the barebone basics that we’re talking about here. When we are referring to 1, 2, 3, etc., we’re not referring to our ASCII representations of the numbers. We’re referring to literal pulses or some kind of other countable thing. While sending what a layman would call a simple message would be difficult, the kind of simple message we are talking about is very doable.

And how did such a thing evolve in the first place?

I have a hard time imagining how such a thing could evolve. Making reproduction more difficult is literally the opposite of what it does, so it had to have been somehow worse to begin with.

Don’t wake the sheeple you idiot, are you trying to get us all killed?

If you’re okay with your data being effectively public, it is absolutely an amazing note to keeping software. By far the best UI of anything I’ve found.

Hey, that’s a perfectly logical solution. Airplanes fly. Turning your phone into airplane mode obviously makes it behave like an airplane. Therefore, a phone in airplane mode can fly.

Again, none of that has anything to do with what post-scarcity actually means. It doesn’t matter if we are misusing resources. What matters is that even if we did use those resources for food and housing, the food and housing would still require a significant amount of human labor to produce.

As for your completely unrelated idea of making specific changes to the entirety of humanity, then discarding the ability to do so after making the ones you want, that seems incredibly short-sighted. While it could theoretically be used to make pointless cosmetic changes as you said, it could also be used to make countless objective improvements to the human body. It’s basically like saying we should throw away any ability to shape metal because it can be used to make weapons.

Edit: Also, being trans is absolutely something that could be fixed just by giving them the right sex from birth, sparing them a lifetime of dysphoria.

Post-scarcity refers to most goods being able to be produced in abundance with minimal human labor. Even assuming that current food production fully falls under that umbrella, housing definitely does not, and it requires a lot more than just food and housing.

The day we can mass produce gold is the day we have a post-scarcity society. Full elemental transmutation, which would be required to mass produce gold, would also eliminate virtually all resource shortages.