I agree, we are very adaptable.

The search for meaning could very well lead to a new intellectual age. I just hope that we don’t collectively fall into a depression as society and if yes we will need sth (be it philosophy, science, religion, …) to guide us through that time imo.

Yess, I hope so. At least here in Europe people that work in apprenticeship were always looked down upon by people going to university. I think that will change quite a bit :)

Totally agree. I also hope that by then we have celebrities (let’s say philosophers, scientists etc) that can help us transition through that difficult period. If the media landscape doesn’t change until then I’m a bit worried that we’ll have people that use this crisis of meaning to their advantage.

Very good point! Will take that into consideration for my next blogs.

I am totally with you on that - do you thing we‘ll get to a point where this actually happens (agi driving cost of goods towards 0)?

Thank you :)! It’s my favorite part of the text. I really hope that universities become this discussion hub of intellectual discourse again. Currently they are just so under pressure to educate the next workers.

That’s as far as I’m concerned how it used to be (at least for the upper class and not slaves) in the early beginnings of the great Greek philosophy age.

They discussed those fundamental questions of human existence and even exercised with each other lol

Thanks will check it out :)!

True, we’ve seen that already

Interesting take - there will prob be some form of government intervention

Question that we're kind of left with is, if AGI is so powerful that it can replace almost all human workers - wouldn't it do so for a fraction of the cost? Obv. then the incentive for companies would be to just make more profit, but maybe it also leads to a scenario where consumer goods like cars (and even teslas) also reduce by a substantial amount in cost.

How much of the price of a consumer good is determined by the number of employees working to produce that consumer good?

thanks :) - I think that's probably the best approach.

Very interesting thoughts, I agree that it would be very difficult to make it "fair". Just out of curiosity: Do you think there will be any financial compensation at all if AGI theoretically replaced almost all human workers (unlikely) and if so what could it look like?
Is capitalism going to need to be changed or tinkered with?

Even if you don't believe that there won't be any human workers anymore, I would still be interested in your prediction.

eyy thank you - means a lot to me :)