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Life after AGI-created Utopia
Hello, I'm looking for research/writings/musings in whatever form, academic or literary, that philosophically explore what will become of life after the creation of AGI, assuming successful alignment.
When all problems are solved, mainly the economic problem of scarcity and the need to work a la Keynes' "The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," and when we can have anything we might need or want to survive and be happy, what then?
Will we command the AGI to figure out how to achieve immortality, discover knowledge, and prevent the end of the Universe in the future, or rather its habitability for life, or rather how to prevent the eventual end of humankind because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and then wait around for it to do so?
When work is no longer necessary for our survival, we are left with the pursuit of happiness. So will we become an Epicurean society? Wouldn't that get boring?
Given the likely development of AGI in our lifetime, I'm struggling with the question: will we be bored in heaven?
Note: I've already read the Culture series and was left wanting, and aware of Bostrom's forthcoming book "Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World."