As though we'd all collectively stop doing anything in a full-automation utopian scenario. Be serious.

I don't understand how that relates to my comment.

Unless you think everyone else is lying, people can and do find meaning in their lives, in the activities they love. AI has no bearing on that (just careers) so there's no reason to believe it would "accelerate" anything.

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I do kind of think people are lying (to themselves). Ignorance is (temporary) bliss.

I'm seeking lasting meaning; not 'meaning' that dissolves after a season, or at best, at the end of a life.

What I meant by 'accelerat[ing] the realization' is that all of our earthly desires will more readily be fulfilled, and we will see that we still feel empty. AI is like enabling a new cheat code in the game of life, and when you have unlimited ammo the FPS becomes really fun for a moment but then loses its meaning quickly.

> I do kind of think people are lying

Of course you do. Your worldview depends on it.

> I'm seeking lasting meaning

I can get that too. We're the arbiters of meaning in our lives.

> earthly desires will more readily be fulfilled, and we will see that we still feel empty

You misunderstand if you believe that the secular perspective on meaning is to reach it through sensualism, by consuming. That is all that AI can more readily fulfill.

Mars?

The Roman god or the planet?

Yes, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

You know the whote collar worker future is bleak when you find multiple comments in this thread about finding solace in some god.

Everyone serves some 'god', whether they admit it to themselves or not.

FSM is mostly meaningless IMO, so no.