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I had to look up this word... lol, the blindsides in what I know -.-
I fail to see your analogy, really... like the fact that a population has differing (in time and space) quality desires for calories doesn't undermine the fact that there is/might be a shift in the entire way in which we consume calories.
Or, to put the analogy more in the infinite/endless costless generation arena... every human eats 1,500-3,000 calories. You can't grow that pie (nobody eats 10k calories a day) -- just like you can't grow the pie of human attention available to art/writing/movies etc. If human food producers are faced with a force that can infinitely replicate and produce all manner of food, they all go out of business. There's no margin in which you can compete.
Fine, you say, there'll be some other good/service you can offer the market... and that indeed was the case for all previous technological changes. But in this one? When the AI can do absolutely every work in front of a screen better than you can... what's left to you (but the real world from whence we came)?
I dunno, pretty black-pilled these days
When the AI can do absolutely every work in front of a screen better than you can
For the same cost, or else you compete on that dimension.
AI can't do a whole bunch of entertainment things that we enjoy, because what we enjoy is watching humans do them.
"What will be scarce" questions seem silly to me. We might say calories are no longer scarce, but this is absurd -- it's like treating everything like water (which we in the western world are used to thinking is mostly fungible: bottle of water here is almost as good as bottle of water there).
The reality is that a calorie is not a calorie: I would like to be eating a steak and sipping a martini while overlooking Puako Bay. Sadly, this is somewhat expensive. But I am not satisfied with a frozen pizza in my dumpy kitchen in Texas.
I doubt that I am particularly ambitions with my gastronomic desires -- we all have specific tastes. And it is these specific tastes that will keep the scarcity going for as long as we are around. Nor are our tastes limited to comestibles.
Hence, I still doubt there will be a doom where AI does everything for us. Or even where any of us feel like we have appreciably less to do.