Living through these times now is like 14-year-old me receiving a new birthday present more or less every day.
Multiple times a week I get the sense I won the "lucky to not have been born a generation earlier" lottery.
I feel better-prepared for this than almost anyone. I have everything I need, I can work with my hands, I can build any software I need, I own my own business for 16 years. I have a 38 acres of forest and game, a big garden. I'm a generalist, born in the perfect year to understand how computers actually work, remember DOS, remember before 9/11.
I've never been more excited about the world, and I have never felt I could have this much power (without great wealth) as an individual. I can't wait for robotics to land in similar fashion. I hope biomedical advances can keep my folks alive until we beat this game.
E.g. we're literally commercializing alchemy now.
Not "sort of kind of if you squint and pretend"... literally honest-to-goodness alchemy.
https://x.com/marathonfusion/status/2113001073019662481
I am living in a Sci-Fi novel from my youth