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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 482355" data-attributes="member: 562">Interesting X Post...Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud about where AI actually ends up.Musk: “The honest answer for AI and robotics is long term working will be optional.”Long term meaning ten years from now or less.For centuries, human survival has required human labor. That is the oldest equation in civilization.You work or you don’t eat. You work or you lose the shelter. You work or you fall behind everyone who does.Musk is describing the end of that equation entirely.Musk: “If you wanna work you can. Kind of like if you grow vegetables, you can grow vegetables in your garden or you can get them from the store.”The analogy is quieter than the claim deserves.Growing your own vegetables is something people do for joy. For ritual. For the satisfaction of making something with their hands.Not because they would starve otherwise.That is what work becomes.Musk: “It’s extra work to grow your own vegetables but people enjoy the process. That’s gonna be how work is in the future.”When AI and robotics scale to their limit, the cost of physical goods and services collapses toward zero.Labor stops being the mechanism that separates people who survive from people who don’t.What happens to human motivation when survival is no longer the reason to get up?That is the question nobody building this technology has answered.The abundance is coming. The crisis of meaning is coming with it.Musk is describing the greatest liberation in human history.He is also describing the greatest identity crisis our species has ever faced.Both arrive on the same timeline.Ten years or less.</blockquote>

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