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14. Deus Ex Growth Machina (ft. Aaron Benanav)

This Machine Kills

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Your Necessity and Freedom - Part 2

I think you kind of play the outlines or sketches of that post-scarcity world you would want to live in. I'm just talking with a few friends of mine about this book after I read it they are themselves like I guess their conception of automation is more closely hedged yangs as you talked about it in the very early parts of the book. There was surprise on their part about the idea of then using this technology if it's not resulting in this nightmare scenario because we already live in it to really radically transform the world so I think yeah what you know what for you are the outlines of this post-sc scarcity world.

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