Speaking of documents, you would be floored at just how much people print. It drives me crazy. I started tracking printing just to our copy machines a year or two ago and these people are single handedly decimating entire forests.

You are right to point the finger at this development, which, while offering advantages in terms of efficiency and convenience, also presents considerable risks for privacy and individual freedom. We need people who can innovate in content creation, but also think critically about what content really attracts attention in a crowded and increasingly homogenized digital world.

Human values are changing rapidly. There's a passage from the series "The Three-Body Problem" that I really liked. It's in episode 5 and I don't want to spoil it for you, so if you're interested, you can watch it. I think you'll easily see what I mean when you watch the scene.

Artificial Intelligence shouldn't replace human judgment, but it already does for many people. Developing a critical mind is no longer so easy, but it's still possible. You do it very well, and you're far from alone. 

My main point is that there's going to be an even bigger gap between people who have developed critical thinking and others who, on the contrary, have lost all critical thinking.

It's a sad but true thing to say, my chest burns because I have been an active member of such for a long time, the adventitious attitude now belongs to the few who are the ones truly living and the others are just puppets to that existence.

 The quality of content matters and as you said, for the value to be transmitted there have to be a reader, so what do you have to those out there putting in there effort and not receiving recognition enough to earn a living because they aren't hitting the numbers to be recognized?. 

In my opinion your writing relates closely to the quality of life you keep I think that should be spread out there and the drive of creativity too should, AI's learn everyday a lack of creative will eventually put all fakes out of business and the real hustle begins, how do we prepare for that?.

It's definitely an issue that the value of content is dropping. A lot of people want to be content creators but the amount of people who can make a living off of it is a minority. It makes me wonder what will happen as AI gets more rampant and that value goes down even further. In a way, I don't see it as us winning and I have a feeling that we are moving towards a society where a lot of us won't really have a job.

> Information has never been more valuable.

I'd say it's never been more available. Think supply and demand. This stuff will collapse.

Also, I believe there's some stochasticity in that homogeneity that will lead to creativity.

AI has its flaws and some of gradual convenience and from your write - this is exactly demonstrated. 
I am not to see it happen  to values slow down gradually, but we could still innovate and find out systems differentiating what bots are sharing and rest of what is human crafted. 

What I think that Human mind has genuine **innovative mind**,other than to think anew, act differently and make different approaches. Contrary, the bots are programmed and manufactured by humans to work on specific functions, not else . 

Thats the difference on the way. 

> because there is only so much time that can be spent consuming it. This is the problem with the attention economy, because we only have so much attention to spend...

The sad thing is, even good books are getting extremely hard to pay some attention to. Especially because of the slower pace of consumption and the requirement to be fully focused on reading. And I used to love to read books. I still do but I can hardly make ( consume) five to ten in a year :(

If we stay below replacement fertility level, there'll be fewer and fewer eyeballs to chase.

> the most valuable thing is data that allows corporations and governments alike to observe us, track us, know us, target us, control us

It's more about what definite trend or pattern it(tons of data over the internet) is forming, if yes, then it is always valuable for a myriad of entities including corporations and Govts.

> There is not only an explosion of content, there is also the homogenization of content, as people rely more on the tools, and less on their own creativity. This means that the volume grows, but the diversity narrows.

Obviously yes, because they will have a propensity to produce those types of content which has a demand, even though creativity has a generic demand, it is not that straightforward, creativity can be artificially created, and as long it pays it will have a supply side. 

> We are no longer looking to solve the hard problems and instead raising the irrelevant problems as if they are high priority.

I think it's just perspective, and where you put your attention to. There is so much information available, that depending on where you look, it might seem bleak. Think of it like TV with channels. If you watch slapstick and comedy, you might think the world is becoming stupid. But if you change the channel, you will see advancements in technology and humanity.

You mentioned sailing, and diving the seas. We pretty much conquered those, so there's not much to do there. We have deep sea cables, underwater tunnels, submarines that can reach the deep sea, etc. You mentioned space. There is still a whole lot of things being done with that. Private companies are trying to get the costs down by improving the materials and recycling them. Japan recently did an unmanned precise landing on the moon. We made a vaccine against a global pandemic in record time. People are still trying to find a cure for cancer, dementia, and other illnesses. We are developing AI and Robotics which were just imagined in fictional books before.

You just have to change the channel.

I think the fact that we raise problems that are not important as high priorities is the fact that so many of us have misplaced priorities. If you ask so many people about the problem they’re going through, we’d realize that they are unreasonable. I think that’s where we all have met ourselves though

Mon ami, il me semble qu'au 22ème siècle, une personne raisonnable dans ce monde sera une rareté exceptionnelle.

I agree. It seems stupid contents on Web2 social media platforms attract much more attention, and this reflects the level of the value of humans who watch them.