The plasticity of human psychology in a technologically mature world—where brain states, knowledge, personality, and subjective experience can be directly engineered—shows that the instrumental-necessity problem runs far deeper than economics, touching on the fundamental malleability of human nature itself.
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Nick BostromEvidence Quote
“and this starts to show just how deep this problem goes like it's not just that there are a few sort of chores that we no longer have to do uh but um even very fundamental things like learning and understanding our our own personality um also becomes malleable in this condition like in a plastic World”
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