@MaruZenunim @chaosprime post scarcity is the realm of those who REALLY don't get economics
@NotTimothy but you also might be missing the point that that's a much more pleasant and humane economy @MaruZenunim
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@NotTimothy i don't think it's unreasonable to just read "post-scarcity" as "post-material-scarcity" since that's all it means @MaruZenunim -
@chaosprime as such i just think the scarcities change firm to attention, time, and other meterable qualities @MaruZenunim -
@NotTimothy yeah. i guess whether that's an improvement depends on whether people act more reasonably absent survival risk. @MaruZenunim -
@NotTimothy unfortunately what we see about humans' capacity to recalibrate their problem perception seems to argue your point. @MaruZenunim -
@NotTimothy i.e. afaict the worst problem a given human has is treated as an existential threat, including if it's a hangnail. @MaruZenunim -
@chaosprime IMO most cannot even reason about existential threat a la Bostrom. Outside personal scope, it seems. @MaruZenunim
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@chaosprime respectfully disagree.@cstross Toast -world seems at least as bad as today, or railroad baron times. YMMV course. @MaruZenunim -
@NotTimothy unfamiliar with that work. guess i have to buy some more of your stuff,@cstross :) @MaruZenunim -
@chaosprime@cstross @MaruZenunim world where computers & contracts outcompete humanity & descendents/offshoots
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