Nick Bostrom

You could still do it yourself, but there would be a sense of maybe pointlessness to your own efforts in that scenario.

You could still do it yourself, but there would be a sense of maybe pointlessness to your own efforts in that scenario.

And so you can start to think through the kinds of activities that fill the lives of people who don't work for a living today.

And so you can start to think through the kinds of activities that fill the lives of people who don't work for a living today.

And for a lot of those, you could sort of cross them out or put the question mark on top of them.

And for a lot of those, you could sort of cross them out or put the question mark on top of them.

You could still do them in a sold world, but that would be a sort of cloud of pointlessness, maybe hanging over, casting a shadow over them.

You could still do them in a sold world, but that would be a sort of cloud of pointlessness, maybe hanging over, casting a shadow over them.

So that would be, I call it deep redundancy.

So that would be, I call it deep redundancy.

The shallow redundancy would be you're not needed on the labor market.

The shallow redundancy would be you're not needed on the labor market.

deep redundancies, your efforts are not, it seems, needed for anything.

deep redundancies, your efforts are not, it seems, needed for anything.

And so that's like a deeper, more profound question of what gives meaning in life under those circumstances.

And so that's like a deeper, more profound question of what gives meaning in life under those circumstances.

Like, one step further is I think this world would be a, I call it a plastic world, where it's not just that we would have effortless material abundance, but we ourselves, our human bodies and minds, become malleable

Like, one step further is I think this world would be a, I call it a plastic world, where it's not just that we would have effortless material abundance, but we ourselves, our human bodies and minds, become malleable

at technological maturity.

at technological maturity.