The closer you get to leisure class the more ambitions barbellize: trivial, like seeking out the best chips, or save-the-world. Nothing in between.
Does not bode well for postscarcity utopian dreams. They will be unstable.
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where does pursuing personal taste fit? eg getting into songwriting. I guess trivial
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If it's hard most people won't really pursue it. Just pretend to.
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I’ve found this in my own life as I’ve become more and more personally derisked in my career. How to fight it?
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All the best things are unstable, like the sun. Stability is death.
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That's trivially true of everything, but in context I obviously mean "more unstable than we expect societies to be"
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my gf told me about a book she read not too long ago set in post-scarcity future where the only thing to do was play games
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Our current existence is already a utopian dream for neurons. So, prior art suggests that we'll find a way. The vast majority of our cells have zero ambition anyway.
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I worry about framing like this. It’s similar to the science world. You don’t hear about what most people are working on because they’re too busy to worry about “marketing”. So you only hear from small-frys making a big stink about their trivialities, or Elon making headlines.
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Instability is inevitable in any system, a perfectly stable system dooms itself to extinction against entropic systems encompassing it and integrating with it.
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