Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed.
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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 273a; January 17, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jason Burbank
Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell
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