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The meaning of life in a world without work (The Guardian)

Yuval Noah Harari · 8 May 2017

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The crucial problem is not creating new jobs but creating jobs that humans perform better than algorithms

The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.

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  1. The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.
  2. To the best of our scientific knowledge, human life has no meaning. The meaning of life is always a fictional story created by us humans.
  3. In any case, the end of work will not necessarily mean the end of meaning, because meaning is generated by imagining rather than by working.

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