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Making Sense with Sam Harris · September 30, 2024 · 85m
#385 — AI Utopia
Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia and what happens after AI solves everything. If superintelligent AI eliminates scarcity, disease, and death — what gives life meaning? The problem of meaning in a post-work world.
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Bostrom: if AI handles all necessary work, meaning-from-responsibility faces an existential challenge. You can still choose responsibility — but chosen obligations feel different from necessary ones.
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Bostrom: even with technology to maximize pleasure directly, the hedonic treadmill would still operate. The brain adapts to any constant stimulus — including artificial bliss.
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