Is Social Media Making Us Happier?

Why we're so obsessed with technology because it's not like this technology's I mean it's certainly enhancing our lives to in a certain way but is I mean ultimately is it making people happier right now most technology I would say no, in fact, you and I were talking about social media before this about just not having Instagram on your phone and not dealing you feel better yes I think but one of the issues with social media. That's been pointed out by many people is that I think particularly Instagram people look like they have a much better life than they do right so by design, yeah people are posting pictures of when they're really happy they're modifying those pictures to be better looking even if they're not modifying the pictures there at least selecting the pictures for the best lighting the best angle so people seem they're way better looking than they are right and they're way happier seeming than they are so if you look at everyone on Instagram. You might think the man they're all these happy beautiful people and I'm not that good-looking and I am not happy so I must suck you know and that's gonna make you feel sad so when in fact those people you think are super happy not that happy some of them were depressed they're very sad so I'm the happiest seeing people some of the saddest people in reality and and and nobody looks good all the time doesn't matter who you are no it's not even something you should want why do you look great all the time okay exactly so so I think I think things like that can make people quite sad just by comparison because of you just sort of you people.

let's imagine it's 10,000 years in the future which is nothing in the evolutionary scale so it's a given that we're clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality and those games could be played on any set-top box or a PC or whatever and they would probably be you know billions of such you know computers to set-top boxes it would seem to follow that the odds that we're in base reality is one in billions. How many what's wrong with that occupies the answer, yes the argument is probably it's like is there a flow in that I mean so much but someone I'm not sure what about the error all right no no the argument makes sense so the assumption then is that somebody beat us to it and this is a game. There's a 1 in billions chance that this is based reality oh ok what do you think well I think it's 1 in billions, okay I miss this that seems to be like clearly what you know what what what suggests and I mean all you believe we should hope that that's true because otherwise if civilization stops advancing then that may be due to some calamitous event that erases the civilization so maybe we should be hopeful that this is a simulation.