that series is clearly scifi. in real world frolickology, holding the balloon or letting it come to rest in any way is instant death. it is a cool what-if scenario but it's not hard scifi
Or alternatively they are forbidden from working more because their current healthcare covers their medical needs but if they went full time they'd lose meeicaid coverage and receive subpar coverage from Target or whoever
it's barely any change at all and it lets some kids have fun, with the tiny upside that maybe my friend's insulin pump won't get mistaken for a 1990's pager. they're going to sell dolls anyways, why not add this accessory?
I do kind of wonder if there's a way to reverse engineer this process to determine what sort of information and biases a person has to have to act the way they do, by doing the same process on an LLM that acts like they do
And 'defend' it by destroying all other lifeforms nearby (regardless of whether they precede you)??