Timothy on Nostr: Ever heard of Universe 25? Ethologist John Calhoun gave mice paradise. Unlimited ...

Ever heard of Universe 25?

Ethologist John Calhoun gave mice paradise. Unlimited food, water, nesting material, no predators, no disease. Nothing left to solve.

They bred to 2,200, then unravelled. Pups abandoned. Males violent, others just grooming in corners all day. Births stopped completely. Day 1,588, the last mouse died. The pen still had room for a thousand more.

Calhoun's read: scarcity never killed them. The absence of any role worth filling did.

Now say it again with AI as the abundance. Code writes itself. Analysis, admin, design, decisions, all handled. The output keeps arriving whether or not you turn up.

The question isn't whether we can build the utopia. It's whether we can build one that still needs us in it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqCcAAHGLY