Life snapshot: maximization, raising children, relationships, family

AI TLDR: This article offers a vision of human thriving. It suggests optimizing our lives by focusing on core needs like sleep, nutrition, and mental well-being. It even explores how technology could help us anticipate and fulfill those needs, like predicting a baby's desires before they become cries. The article also emphasizes the importance of strong relationships, proposing an approach of constantly seeking ways to improve them. Ultimately, it envisions families built on a foundation of mutual benefit and emotional connection, where independence goes hand-in-hand with a strong desire to be together.

Life of human maximization - what if we lived life as meticulously as the result of the team managing a prized race horse throughout the peak of it's lifetime. What does it mean to be alive if not at our maximal existence. Prioritization on the basics: sleep, nutrition, exercise, mental stability, longevity. Only then can we develop other aspects of our humanity. What if existence was built on a society and culture that not only respected, but had prioritized technological progress for the betterment of these fundamentals.

What does it mean to raise a child? It is a development of the brain, and neuronal connection strengths based on experience. Theory - human behavior is predictable, thus the more primitive the behavior the more predictable, therefore a child is the most predictable. Sleepy = yawn, hungry = ..., explicitly not including cry, because cry is a next stage response to not having the stimuli. AI detection capabilities are already evolved enough to predict baby state such that we can remedy the need before the neuronal paths of negative experience (crying, hunger) are ever repeated, and thus never strengthened.

Relationships as a function of effort of practiced negative situational reversals. A fighter trains say 90% of the time to ensure the success of it's 10% application. What if the life situations were similar, where we would slowly increase both our situational and interpersonal perception, and upon existence with your significant other, one would essentially aim to maximize the overall satisfaction rate by significantly improving the average satisfaction. A fun way to think about it is similar to those prank Youtube channels of couples, but instead of pranks, and publicly recording response, the goal was to introduce joy and positive novelty that both improved short term and long term life.

What would a family look like where skills for personal independence were emphasized, but values of togetherness were implicitly modeled, allow for family members to choose to want to continue positive, mutually beneficial and enriching interactions with the rest of the family, creating a unit that chooses to be together because of its utility not just in practical skills, but also through emotional regulation and connection.

Teaching is a family specific experience, with the eldest child distilling lessons learned to younger siblings during non teaching time as a model of behavior and prioritized knowledge, assuming that knowledge integration was successful.