🧩 Philosophy Aug 29, 2026 · Vaughn Papenhausen

"Keeping human skills alive" as a source of meaning under full automation

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A widely-discussed problem with full automation of the economy is that, in a world where AI can do everything better, people might have trouble feeling like anything they could do is meaningful. What could we do with our time that would be fulfilling?A standard answer is that we'd play games, in Bernard Suits's sense (if you haven't read Suits, his paper Games and Utopia: Posthumous Reflections gives the key beats and is delightful, or C. Thi Nguyen has many talks where he explains the basic ide

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