[Faark]

To answer this question we'd need to have the same fundamental believes. Many people apparently want to optimize for stuff like human happiness. Something else looks more relevant to me: Evolutionary fitness. The entire rational might be a bit out of scope for this post, so lets keep it at the observation that we seem to particularly care about what we consider our branch of live. I.e. own children > neighbors children > some fish. In the future probably also something AI related.

Actually, the question is still not easy to answer, even if you'd those same fundamentals. Both because effects of stuff like a $15 minimum wage on evolutionary fitness are incredibly hard to predict and out fitness function is theoretically steady a "1" until the last leaf dies. We have to make guesses based on highly incomplete data. But there are some predictions we can be quite confident in based on life on earth: Improving the ability to accumulate knowledge and manipulate our environment (or even yourselves) seems like a highly effective strategy. We should keep moving it forward as best as we can. If that is in the form of millions of man hours "wasted" playing computer games and generations of obsolete graphic cards so those cards could become cheap and highly capable, in the process giving mankind tools to boost AI research, then so be it. Even if it makes life more complicated. Even if we need to learn a lot. Even if it requires tons of collaboration. I'm eager to witness all the other stuff we will come up with by mastering additional technologies.

Freezing or significantly slowing down technological progress in the name of what's natural seems crazy to me. I suppose we at least all agree to "only" have like 5b years to get off this rock. But waiting that long and in the mean time relying on subsistence farming doesn't seem like an optimal survival strategy...