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CertainMiddle2382 t1_jdgnl9b wrote

Reply to How will you spend your time if/when AGI means you no longer have to work for a living (but you still have your basic needs met such as housing, food etc..)? by DreaminDemon177

Like everybody else, fulfilling our urges in other ways than productive work.

Due to mimetism, we want things that we cannot have (often because they cannot be shared).

I predict I explosion in tasks that are difficult, time consuming, hierarchical, but totally unproductive:

Sports, fitness, “bodybuilding/improving” is the obious one.

For people with few gifts at this, non physical sports (much harder to exclude AI cheating though).

Anything producing artifacts, like music/plastic arts also will still exist but be enormously diluted by AI production. Apart live performances that will be in great demand, and I imagine will merge with the first activities (people at the top of physical competition will be able to diversify by providing live art, AI generated or not).

But my take is that the human body is going to be central in AI times.

Any other ideas?

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mbcoalson t1_jdghld9 wrote

Reply to How will you spend your time if/when AGI means you no longer have to work for a living (but you still have your basic needs met such as housing, food etc..)? by DreaminDemon177

Reading, writing, playing video games, going out dancing, and studying esoteric subjects. I'd bump my D&D game up from twice a month to once a week. I would go hiking and camping. I'd learn how to sail. I'd spend lazy Sunday mornings in bed with my wife. I'm ready, sign me up.

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AdorableBackground83 t1_jdghdvb wrote

Reply to comment by Redditing-Dutchman in How will you spend your time if/when AGI means you no longer have to work for a living (but you still have your basic needs met such as housing, food etc..)? by DreaminDemon177

I hear you. In a Post AGI world where the 9-5 is a distant memory and with the necessities and even luxuries of life provided unconditionally we will see a level of freedom never before seen. True freedom, not the BS you hear from politicians. Stress levels will drop to all time lows and people can finally pursue the dreams they actually want without worrying about “making ends meet”.

In fact somebody in the comments was like “majority of people would get bored. They might wanna go back to work to fulfill their time”.

Im like dude GTFO. I would rather be a couch potato than be some corporate slave 1 billion out of a billion times.

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DankestMage99 t1_jdgg9tw wrote

Reply to comment by Artanthos in How will you spend your time if/when AGI means you no longer have to work for a living (but you still have your basic needs met such as housing, food etc..)? by DreaminDemon177

The only limiting thing is energy. Once you have that solved, you solve everything else. And with AI’s help, I believe that will be solved very soon. We already recently had a fusion breakthrough, it won’t take much more. Also, solar will cover the rest in concert with the improvements in battery storage. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if AI will be able to help us figure out zero point energy.

I don’t think you aren’t thinking “big enough,” because every problem you mentioned is easily solved with AI and unlimited energy.

We have everything we could ever need, material-wise, sitting in our landfills and littering the planet currently that we don’t need to mine anything ever again. The only reason we continue to mine is because it’s still cheaper/easier to pull it from the ground than pull the materials from trash. AI will solve this problem.

Also, people will use substantially less. If you had access to everything for free, you wouldn’t want/need most of the crap you own. How much stuff sits in our world unused as a backup or kept around as some form of a sunk cost? You don’t need 99% of it. If everything is free and on-demand, you just recycle stuff once you don’t need it or it breaks and order something new. You could have new clothes made for yourself daily. Why would you need an entire wardrobe? Extrapolate that to everything you use in your life. You could 3D print yourself anything you need. All the extra stuff could be recycled and used as raw materials. And when you multiple this reduction and recycling of materials for 6 billion people, it becomes easy to see how we have more than we could ever need.

Arable land could be solved by huge desalination facilities. Again, this is only restrictive now due to energy consumption. If we had free unlimited energy, the Sahara desert could be reclaimed for everything from farming to lush jungles. Again, that’s more than we would ever need to supply food for the planet—hell, we can feed the planet now if it weren’t for the limiting economic and distribution issues. We throw away so much food away now it’s unbelievable.

I could go on and on, but my point should be clear.

There are only two things that are going to limit this future:

  • whether humans can give up need for the few to remain in power/control
  • whether we can create an AI that won’t destroy us
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ArcticWinterZzZ t1_jdg3n3o wrote

Reply to How will you spend your time if/when AGI means you no longer have to work for a living (but you still have your basic needs met such as housing, food etc..)? by DreaminDemon177

Wander. See the world. Meet as many people as possible. Enjoy full dive VR. Simulate all the crazy fantasies I've always dreamed of. Design the perfect video game. Relive my favorite games of the past, but for real. Enjoy an infinite virtual collection of all the stuff I've always wanted to own. Probably still browse Reddit a lot. Spend even more time arguing online.

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ididntwin t1_jdg1c3o wrote

Reply to How will you spend your time if/when AGI means you no longer have to work for a living (but you still have your basic needs met such as housing, food etc..)? by DreaminDemon177

Spend time with family, play sports, video games with friends, get better at chess.

I can't imagine a more enjoyable life. Being able to have dinner with my family every night. Hanging out with friends during the day. I hope this life can happen soon. Hinges on 1) the technology being there 2) the government realizing capitalism no longer works and offering some sort of UBI.

Not sure how UBI would work though. Some people have different expenses. If you have a high mortgage that you're able to pay now because you have a high paying job. But that job gets eliminated. Then what happens if the UBI isn't enough to cover the mortgage? What if you have more kids and mouths to feed? Will UBI be same for everyone or will certain factors be taken into consideration. So many unknowns.

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