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> And perhaps you are okay with a future where - when most cognitively demanding jobs have been automated - much of of humanity as been reduced to mentally incompetent beings dependent on AI.

This is an understandable reading of my position. But I would probably phrase it differently.

I think we should make a delineation between work that we have to do and work that we want to do. AI will probably automate away much of the work we have to do, freeing us up to do more of the work we want to do.

We can optimize society such that every person should work towards some hypothetical motivated, curious, and educated ideal, or we can optimize society so that people are just happy in whatever way happiness can be defined for them.

If people aren’t interested in learning more about themselves and about the world around them, so be it. It certainly wouldn’t effect my motivation.

Think of it like working out. Nobody needs to exercise, but people do it because they want to. Either because it’s fun, or it makes them feel better about themselves, or for the skill acquisition aspect, or even the community aspect.