What If We Never Become Post-Scarcity? (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Post-Scarcity
We joked earlier about post-discontent societies, ones where people lived in slums but felt great about it. We may get educational technologies that make it far easier to learn skills so that anyone can be a virtuoso or master craftsman. Here too we might have artificial intelligence on social media to help guide us to those most likely to share our interests and have complementary personalities to befriend. And many might wonder if the former might be inherently less satisfying than the latter.
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