On: Ask HN: Sam Altman, things that will be retain value post AI

[toomuchtodo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

Watches, wines, designer anything not made by AI. Check out episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation with regards to exploration of ideas of value when goods come out of a replicator and experiences out of a Holodeck at zero marginal cost.

[monkeyonethe → toomuchtodo]

which episodes of Star Trek should I watch?

I feel like watches and designer good could be easily designed by AI, no?

[kingkongjaffa → monkeyonethe]

Part of the point is people buy the status and the history of the brand. If the brand is consistent with the customers values.

If it comes out of a cold lifeless machine and not the warm hands of human craftsmanship, is it the same thing?

[ihatepython → monkeyonethe]

One thing to keep in mind is that in the 24th century, there still is no cure for baldness.

[ihatepython → monkeyonethe]

> which episodes of Star Trek should I watch?

Perhaps 'The Neutral Zone' season 1 episode 26. There is a cryogenically frozen person brought back to life, and he is obsessed with finding out about the value of his stock portfolio, and he and Picard have a conversation about how money no longer exists.

But I don't recall any episode that really explores the idea of a post-scarcity world (which is essentially communism I suppose)

[jhoelzel → monkeyonethe]

they only have intrinsic value to begin with.

The bragging is basically a cultural think in your circles so no i dont see them becomming that.