If ASI does create an abundant future I think many are going to have that familiar listless feeling of enabling cheats on a computer game and all the mystery and fun is gone.
Technology in general (smartphones, social media, search) even without AI is creating this feeling, as it shrinks the world and makes it less mysterious.
It's worse than boredom it's more like nihilism.
Then when you strip purpose and meaning from a human you get something very bad, despondency being the best case outcome.
Aye, but it’s also possible for people to find their own purpose and meaning. Some find it in religion, some in art, some in love or nature.
It will be a transition, for sure - there would no longer be meaning in “winning the game” in a capitalistic or scientific sense. Anything you want to produce or learn, the AI could already produce or has already learned. Now you have to do it just for the love of the process.
I have a musician friend who likes to say that good artists overwhelmingly make art for their own benefit. Not to advance the world or blow people’s minds, but because something inside of them needs to come out, and art is how they express it. And that part of us isn’t going to go away.
Technology in general (smartphones, social media, search) even without AI is creating this feeling, as it shrinks the world and makes it less mysterious.
It's worse than boredom it's more like nihilism.
Then when you strip purpose and meaning from a human you get something very bad, despondency being the best case outcome.