Comment on post scarcity video

A comment on Isaac Arthur's post scarcity video.

The problem with scarcity given absolute automation is a problem of unregulated reproduction.   A likely tech for postscarcity is high automation.   With high automation, comes high security, freedom from accidents and crime.  With automated high speed research, comes freedom from disease, including aging.

I believe that new citizens, newborn citizens deserve the best society has to offer, the best parenting, the best resources, the best education, the best health care, and a guarantee to a slice of the resources of the planet.   We summon a new being, call them, into this world, the least we can do is offer the best we can to someone who didn't ask to come here, but was brought into this world forcefully.   But unregulated reproduction can lead to uncontrolled population growth especially in a world with little death from accident, disease, crime, or (highly reduced disease of  uncontrolled depression)suicide.

Regards easy availability to say food, travel or experiences.  I agree with the comments regarding the final examples of virtual reality overlaid on reality, entoptics and its expansion into other sensory modalities, that technology is also called augmented reality.  We need not necessarily print or manufacture many, actually most things.  In fact nonphysical say food has advantages, it has no calories, it is instantly available in unlimited quantities at the right temperature and exact perfect  'cooking', this also allows unlimited consumption.    All that is needed is the technology of advanced brain computer interfaces, with this both virtual as well as augmented reality will allow for the controlled multisensory collective hallucination of experiences and sensations, such that virtual objects offer smell, physical resistance, touch, taste, etc.

 As for the automation technology, I believe advanced synthetic biology will be the final miniaturization and advancement of our physical technology. With negligible senescence, our machines can self renew, self repair, self replicate automatically at a molecular level, they can also recycle their own components at such molecular level. Using an external energy source, an entirely self-contained system is possible recycling and maintaining all components. Although an internal energy source is also possible using fission, fusion or mini black holes. Combined with a body enhanced by synthetic biology, the human within a synthetic biology facility could last indefinitely, and if digital computation is merged into such tech, experience all the wonders possible through brain computer interfaces.