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Re:Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome by prox on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:33AM (#34878374)
In “all-needs-met-ism” there is no wasted “bad” energy. People who don’t want to work go on permanent holiday. That’s where it gets psychologically interesting. How long do you holiday before you want to do something again?

I do concur we are far from it, but the moment we can do free energy print-on-demand anything, it will be possible. Every day the sun outputs energy we use in a year.

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Re:Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome by kvgr on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:53AM (#34878537)
a lot of people would just drink and do drugs, because they are unable to self direct. I think that right amnount of struggle keeps people sane.
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Re:Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome by prox on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:33AM (#34881603)
Your comment suddenly reminds me of Agent Smith paraphrased “we designed the perfect world for you, but your primitive minds tried to wake up from it. Whole harvests where lost.”

I think there can be a lot of neurological imbalance from complete freedom and absence of scarcity. I think on the whole (or at least myself) I could live like that. And nobody in this post scarcity world is barred from doing work if they need it I guess. That’s also a form of post scarcity.

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