As it’s the result of about two minutes thought, I’m not very confident about how internally consistent this idea is.
If finding non-trivial problems is tedious work, I imagine people with a preference for tedious work (or who just don’t care about satisfying problems) would probably rather buy art/prostitutes/spaceship rides, etc. This is the bit I find hardest to internally reconcile, as a society in which most work has become trivially easy is probably post-scarcity.
I personally don’t find the search for non-trivial problems all that tedious, but if I could turn to a computer and ask “is [problem X] trivial to solve?”, and it came back with “yes” 99.999% of the time, I might think differently.
As it’s the result of about two minutes thought, I’m not very confident about how internally consistent this idea is.
If finding non-trivial problems is tedious work, I imagine people with a preference for tedious work (or who just don’t care about satisfying problems) would probably rather buy art/prostitutes/spaceship rides, etc. This is the bit I find hardest to internally reconcile, as a society in which most work has become trivially easy is probably post-scarcity.
I personally don’t find the search for non-trivial problems all that tedious, but if I could turn to a computer and ask “is [problem X] trivial to solve?”, and it came back with “yes” 99.999% of the time, I might think differently.