And arguably, our society has made a lot of bad choices about many "convenience[s] in modern life." For instance, cities should probably be designed to make you walk more by default, so healthy physical activity isn't turned into a chore you then have to have the discipline to do consistently.
Basically, collectively, we're stupid and unwise, picking short term convenience and neglecting the medium and long term, and we need to get better at that.
Funny you should mention that. There was a HN post about the prompt similar to this: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 100m away. Should I drive or walk?" - Was quite difficult for even frontier models. Surely they now do better, but it was quite entertaining reading the answers.
Surely not https://claude.ai/share/b657c13d-0aed-4bb3-8250-c5ca4853dc42