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I got the same, but some of those questions were hard. In particular, the one about eliminating jobs was binary and I see a lot of nuance there. There are a lot of jobs I’d be very happy to eliminate. My ideal rule of thumb is: in a post-scarcity society, if no one had to work, would people still do this? My more pragmatic one is: in a society with UBI where people didn’t have to work to survive, but did for luxuries, would there be enough people willing to do this job at no more than double its current wage for it to be sustainable? If not, let’s automate it.

There were a few others like this. I said ‘no’ to the one about large problems having technological solutions, but I do believe that technology is going to form part of the solution to many of these things (and some of the technology already exists and isn’t deployed for social / political / economic reasons).

A few others were also firmly ‘no but…’ kind of questions.