The Post-Instrumental Condition Expand all 01 State the post-instrumental thesis in plain terms. Why is it the hinge of the whole book? 02 Walk Bostrom's laundry parable . What does folding clothes show about what disappears in a solved world? 03 What is shallow redundancy vs deep redundancy , and why does the distinction matter? 04 The magic-fox parable : why does Bostrom return to it across the book, and what does it dramatize? 05 Why does Bostrom argue post-instrumentality threatens more than just employment — that it reaches into love, friendship, and parenthood?
The Texture of Living Expand all 01 Bostrom argues status games persist in post-scarcity. Why doesn't abundance dissolve them, and is that good or bad? 02 What roles do spirituality and religion play in Bostrom's solved world? Is the wiring different from how we currently use them? 03 Bostrom takes seriously the role of ritual in a solved world. Why might rituals matter more, not less, when they have no instrumental function? 04 What is artificial scarcity , and why might a mature utopia deliberately reintroduce it? 05 Distinguish deep play from idle play. Why does Bostrom think deep play is plausibly the dominant mode of a solved world?