What could AGI do with a mass produced bot like Tesla's Optimus? As I understand it, cognition, not robotics, has been the main roadblock here.

Always remember that we, the novelty seekers, adventurers and futurists are the mutants. The average person is very risk and change averse.

Happiness is such a weird thing.

I grew up starving in a third world hellhole and knew so many people that managed to be happy under those circumstances. Similarly, I now live a middle class life in a wealthy country and so many of the privileged people I know somehow manage to remain thoroughly miserable.