If everything is free, what’s still worth striving for? From replicators to reputation, we examine the surprising economics of a post-scarcity world. Watch my exclusive video Mass Drivers on the Moon:...
Self-Repairing Machines
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Spaceship Factories
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Smart Cities
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Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future
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Automated Economies & Unemployment
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Economies of the Future
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New Technologies that May be in the Cards
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The Paperclip Maximizer
A Paperclip Maximizer is an example of artificial intelligence run amok performing a job, potentially seeking to turn all the Universe into paperclips. But it's also an example of a concept called Instrumental Convergence, where two entities with wildly different...
The Santa Claus Machine
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Jobs of the Future
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Post Scarcity Civilizations & Privacy
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