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Right, but lets say even the coming up with new needs and satisfying them is automatic.

Being the humans that we are, we’ll come up with needs missed by the automatic process.

If it really just expands faster than we can come up with needs, then what is there to worry about?

our most pressing need is to ensure the survival of the species given that the planet's climate is inherently unstable over a period of 100,000+ years.

which means we need to learn terraforming and/or interstellar travel within the next 100,000 years, without killing our entire species while we do it.

"Robot! Experience this tragic irony for me!"

- Futurama: https://youtu.be/LCPhbN1l024

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