Yet another comment on brain computer interfaces, abundance, and postscarcity society.

The thing is, AI will eventually accelerate the development of brain computer interfaces. Brain computer interfaces will eventually allow all the senses, all the sensations to be replicated digitally and stored accessible instantly. Like netflix and youtube do with video, or spotify with music. All sensations, taste, smell, touch, all realworld experiences will be recordable, shareable and able to be experienced again and again for free.

Control the brain, and you can eat the most nutritious food, and it doesn't matter how unpalatable it is, the signals will be intercepted and changed such that the food tastes as the best tasting possible food.

You can also eat thin air, and drink thin air, while consuming virtual food with all the richness of sensation and none of the calories. Even the most expensive of dishes, can be had unlimited as desired at a moment's notice, instantly, cost free.

It can also generate worlds of untold beauty and extense virtually. Sensations can be recorded, and shared even from other people. You can experience the emotions, the thoughts, the sense of making choices, the tastes, the smells, the sights, everything indistinguishable from living it yourself live in person, indistinguishable from real recordings, and imaginings of real and fictitious locations.

Say you take the world's richest person a 100 years from now, say he records his life from birth till death. A billion people could potentially experience it all, indistinguishable from being that person, and it would take virtually no resources to live and experience everything he did as vividly and realistically as if you actually were that person.
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The thing is eventually computation and ai will allow the development of alternate histories, to adapt to any possible choice. Such that you too could not only live the same life but make different choices, and experience realistic alternate outcomes or even an entirely fictional experience as a non existent wealthiest individual with free agency.

In any case there is no experience that cannot be recreated with computation, ai and a connection to the brain.

EDIT: People will be able to live in virtual worlds, and use augmented reality to mix the virtual with the real. Any fantasy or desire they have can be materialized by ai in digital form and transmitted directly to the brain at low cost.

People will share, and interact with each other while having access to the ability to exchange thought, emotion, and countless sensations and conjure up any food or experience or sight or sound, touch, smell out of thin air. A far more magical and richer social experience.

Today there are streamers. In the future it has been hypothesized there will be experience beamers, people that connect all their senses to the internet, and thousands or millions connect to their feed and feel all they're feeling.

But not everyone will follow experience beamers. There will be movies and interactive stories or games, where you're a bystander or you're a protagonist, in countless stories with wonderful worlds. Some of these experiences may last hours, other days, yet others may last years decades or more. Perhaps even your memories and personality will be temporarily blocked and overrided, if so desired.

Why would such tech become widely available? Because with the advanced manufacturing of the future it is likely to be practically free to mass produce. With full automation there is no need of employment, and basic needs can easily be met, population caps and regulated reproduction can ensure there are always enough resources to provide basic needs to everyone.

The wealthiest can still have an edge with having more physical land, better physical transportation, and the ability to conduct larger scale simulations with entire simulated billions of people to rule over with godlike power using their BCI. The less wealthier the smaller the scale and complexity of what can be produced, unless it is in a shared multi user experience where the costs are distributed.

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.