[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Coda

Of course, this is handwaving the fact that humans are apex predators.

I'm not sure that Homo sapiens sapiens can psychologically tolerate post-scarcity. As a whole, Man is not satisfied unless it is fighting for power. There are plenty of things that it accepts as stand-ins for power -- wealth, a large family, success, a full belly -- but in a world where AI is always going to be more powerful and wealth is meaningless, we're going to see hoarders, gluttons, tribal cliques, et cetera.

Just wanted to add, anecdotally, that I personally am coping with that in my current life-situation, there's literally nothing in the world that I want that isn't already in my possession or available to me (aside from a cure to my disease that doesn't exist) and the level of disaffection and depression I feel despite that makes me feel (admittedly without any hard evidence) that post-scarcity is going to be one of the harder problems we'll have to face as a species. It might not be killbots that do us in, but rather ennui and loss of meaning. We didn't evolve to subsist in paradise. Our brains are like hamster wheels of desire-seeking but it's all illusory, it's the exercise that's the point, not the imaginary goal.