Are human values just adaptations to scarcity? An AI thinker's provocative take
VraserX · x · 2026-11-14
AI commentator VraserX (24k followers) poses a philosophical question: many things we treat as fundamental human values — competition, ambition, status, even parts of our morality — may simply be adaptations to scarcity.
He suggests that if the need to fight over resources disappears (an allusion to AI-driven abundance), we might discover that much of what we call human nature was merely survival behavior. Such framing is often used in AI circles to reason about human motivation and social structures in a post-scarcity future.
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