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The speaker thinks that even in a perfectly successful world of limitless prosperity, people may default to mindless consumerism.
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“in this world where everything goes perfectly and we have limitless prosperity.”
“I think that just the default of limitless prosperity is that people do mindless consumerism. I think there's going to be some incredible video games after super intelligent AI.”Play from 2:21:59Report a misattribution
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