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The Post-Instrumental Condition Expand all 01 State the post-instrumental thesis in plain terms. 02 Why is the post-instrumental thesis the hinge of the whole book? 03 Walk Bostrom's laundry parable . 04 What does the laundry parable show about a solved world? 05 Define shallow redundancy . 06 Define deep redundancy . 07 Why does Bostrom's shallow vs deep redundancy distinction matter? 08 Walk the magic-fox parable . 09 What does the magic-fox parable dramatize? 10 Why does post-instrumentality threaten more than just employment? 11 What does post-instrumentality reach into beyond work?
The Texture of Living Expand all 01 Why don't status games dissolve in post-scarcity? 02 Why might status games intensify in a solved world? 03 What four problems has religion historically helped people cope with? 04 How does religion's center of gravity shift in a solved world? 05 Why might rituals matter more , not less, in a solved world? 06 What is artificial scarcity , and why might a mature utopia reintroduce it? 07 Distinguish deep play from idle play . 08 Why is deep play plausibly the dominant mode of a solved world?