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Anders Sandberg | Post-Scarcity Civilizations & Cognitive Enhancement
The Foresight Institute Podcast
The Cost of Confident Limits of the World
If everything was guaranteed to be perfect, most of us would be bored. I think this is a constraint satisfaction program that's actually unsolvable either with arbitrary amount of computation. Being able to recycle matter endlessly, well, that's going to be pretty good for the planet. The Lord might have been right. It's kind of the means of production of both scarcity, but it's where we want to figure out what to get.
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