Deric Cheng

And I believe that losing maybe our role in terms of driving forward the core parts of the economy is a possibility from this.

And that in many ways, it could be a privilege.

Because as people, we will still have struggles in many, many different ways.

We will still struggle to find our purpose, to find our love and belonging, to find our self-esteem, to raise a family, to determine the right direction for society.

but that maybe those are fundamental to the human condition, but that maybe the financial security does not have to be fundamental to our human condition, right?

Maybe our physical safety and security, our physiological needs do not have to be things that we have to worry about.

And so in my view, like,

If we can move towards a world in which we can create that sort of underlying level of safety, that could create maybe an epoch of rest or an epoch of clear direction for our own personal journeys.

Yeah, I think cathedrals is not maybe a literal sense, but more so to invest in projects that are meaningful and purposeful for communities to engage in, right?

I think in the past, we have built beautiful churches, we have built beautiful art.

I would say that there are people who are creating experiences and events for others, such as festivals, that they find deep meaning and purpose from, but perhaps not financial wealth.

I think that developing schools, higher places of education is something that feels deeply meaningful for many people.

And that coming together and being able to put resources towards those things that both feel meaningful

beneficial for society.

And for more importantly, like our local communities, the people who we live with and who we engage with, maybe is a direction that we could put more energy and resources towards if we free ourselves from almost this rat race of needing to secure economic security for each of us.

Of course, we have a platform called the AGI Social Contract, agisocialcontract.org, in which we talk and explore a lot of these ideas.

We'll be continuing to publish over the next year about what some of these structures might look like.

And there are many, many good thinkers out there who have already started to write about these sorts of futures.

Daniel Susskind is one of them.

Aaron Bastani writes about these ideas in his piece on fully automated luxury communism.