[new2this]

>This is what I fear about AI making our jobs superfluous; it will also make our hobbies or anything we enjoy doing superfluous.

Mountain climbing is superfluous by this logic- why would you bother climbing a mountain when you could just take a helicopter to the top? Or even more accessible: why would hike to a lookout when there's a road to take you to the same spot?

There is still joy and value in doing things the hard way, even if an easier way exists.

[lkbm]

This is true, and a very good analogy, but I'm not sure it holds up when every form of productivity has shifted from fun+challenging+useful to just fun+challenging.

Maybe this is a mindset we'll get over. The degree to which many of us evaluate ourselves based on our own usefulness seems like it's a bit too much but it's a normal human desire to be useful.

I certainly believe we should work towards a post-scarcity world where no one depends on my coding skills any more than they do my rock climbing skills, but it would be a psychological adjustment if every way I can be useful were now just a fun hobby.

[exceptione]

You can be really useful to people by not having hard skills.

I keep hearing from people that trying to give up on getting and starting to give instead, makes them receive more.

[amag]

And when there are 10 billion people at the base camp of Mount Everest because they have nothing better to do?

[throwaway675309]

This is rather an absurd argument and speaks more to the scarcity of natural resources.

I can only speak for myself, but in a world of universal basic income, I'm perfectly happy to pluck the strings of my guitar, play my piano, go for runs with my dog, play tennis etc. I don't believe there is any greater purpose to existence then what you can create for yourself.

Since my contentment comes from performing the actions themselves, whether or not a artificial intelligence can perform them better than me is simply a meaningless question.

[cwmoore]

A likely scenario, but that would be a very big tent city. Perhaps AI could select the ideal order for them each to take their turn.