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What will humans do if AI solves everything?
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What will humans do if AI solves everything?
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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (2024)
Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930 essay)
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
Permutation City (1995)
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Social Limits to Growth (1976)
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In 1977 Fred Hirsch, an economist, argued in “The Social Limits to Growth” that, as wealth increases, a greater fraction of human desire consists of positional goods.
Interest in chess has grown since ibm’s Deep Blue first defeated Garry Kasparov, then world champion, in 1997. An entire industry has emerged around e-sports, where computers can comfortably defeat humans.