alt Hacker News> Do you seriously imagine a world like that would be empty and lacking meaning
Yes. I think that being useful is a fundamental (and often understated) requirement of a happy fulfilling life.
> Do you seriously imagine a world like that would be empty and lacking meaning
Yes. I think that being useful is a fundamental (and often understated) requirement of a happy fulfilling life.
I have been wondering if this just isn't a problem for most people, because for me it feels like a major problem. We sometimes find our reliance on other humans to be a burden, so we are optimizing towards a future where each human can do all their tasks without involving other humans. But this reliance was the whole basis of our success up until now.
When AI solves 100 frontier math problems, in some sense that's 100 lost opportunities for a human to feel proud and useful, having done something they can remember and talk about for the rest of their lives. I don't see where that loss gets made up.