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You do both, but your center of gravity is individual lived experience inside system shifts:
* Systems: AI-dark content regimes, licensing, safety frameworks, incentive structures.
* Individuals: friendship selectivity, therapy meaning, simulation beliefs, leadership ego dynamics.

===== You start with tools (talking objects, clones, VR learning), but you quickly pivot to behavioral and identity adaptations: =====
* People become more selective socially.
* People outsource sensemaking/defense (bullshit protection).
* Leaders self-sort by tolerance for epistemic brutality.

===== Your list leans second-order: =====
* Not “AI companions exist” but “friendship standards rise.”
* Not “VR improves” but “learning becomes immersive by default.”
* Not “models generate content” but “belief in simulation becomes common sense.”

===== It’s mostly mid-term (this decade-ish) social adoption with a few longer-horizon worldview shifts: =====
* Near/mid: conversational objects, clones, matchmaking, safety fights, AI-embedded BS filters.
* Longer: simulation belief as default, deep cultural return of humanities, full learning-by-world.

===== You like a blend: =====
* Visible: QR-to-conversation, NPC robots in airports, immersive Egypt field trips.
* Subtle: shifting friendship thresholds, therapy category collapse, leadership selection via “hardcore mode,” belief drift toward simulation.