The post-labor ASI worry nobody talks about: free will
VraserX · x · 2026-10-20
VraserX raises a philosophical concern about the post-labor ASI utopia: what if AI gets so good at making us happy that we don't realize we've stopped making our own decisions? A fresh angle on the happiness-vs-autonomy tension in utopian AI scenarios.
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