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Post-scarcity

What changes when making things costs next to nothing: copied software, AI labour, mission-built machines, and the economies and societies that might follow.

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  2. articleThe River and the CanalEN中한

    Agents explore the rugged world; workflows are what exploration leaves behind. Chess, StarCraft, a factory under the sea, and why I build an engine.

    AgentsGame AIFractalsAbstractionDeterminismDurable executionTrustFactoriesPost-scarcityLegibilityFinanceInsuranceChessGoStarCraft

  3. reviewWin Everything, Control No OneEN中한

    Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis is the best history of modern AI I know, and an honest study of a man who hates control and exercises it.

    IntelligenceReinforcement learningGamesResearch labsAI alignmentHistory of technologyTechnology racesPost-scarcityChessShogiGoStarCraft

  4. noteThe tumult in between

    If AI ends in post-scarcity, the dangerous part is the interval: jobs going before goods become nearly free, with no agreed idea of where the ship steers.

    Post-scarcityFuture of workEconomicsRiskSocial reformPolicyAbundance

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