If AI Replaces Human Labor Does That Have To Strip Human Lives Of Meaning?

A common worry is that technological development, and increasingly advanced AI in particular, will necessarily remove meaning from our lives. For instance, if humanity ends up in a situation of extreme material abundance, but at some point there is a lack of ability for most (or all) people to do work that's value-additive, will that lead to widespread depression and lack of meaning? While I think there are very serious concerns that advancing technologies, and AI in particular, raise (such ...
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Why Do Some People Have Better Intuition?

Here’s what I think: intuition is mainly a set of patterns, evaluations, anticipations and predictions that we learn from experience.  Intuition differs in effectiveness across people and tasks because: Focus: We have experience in different domains. One person spends their time cooking, another training in martial arts. Wideness: Most have experience in more than one domain, and there can be cross-domain synergies as well. Perhaps the martial artist cook has an advantage. Time: ...
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