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A comment on Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2020). Parent comment

Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by JohnFen on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:11PM (#35532988)
> People need work to feel that their lives have meaning.

I don't think that follows at all. People need to accomplish things, yes. Those things don't have to be work in the sense we mean it today.

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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by chii on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:35AM (#35535420)
> Those things don't have to be work in the sense we mean it today.

i think the word "work" is overloaded with two meaning - one being the regular meaning of doing work (for a wage/price). The other one being to exert oneself.

People _do_ find meaning in exerting oneself, but only for a purpose which is not merely sustenance. For example, intrinsically valuable work like artistic pursuits is work, but would still be done in the event of post-scarcity.

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