Awesome Post Scarcity

A curated list of awesome Post-Scarcity links, books and resources.

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Table of Contents

• General
• Economics
  • Universal Basic Income
• Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  • Asteroid Mining and Space Tech
  • Self Replication and Nanotechnology
  • 3d Printing

General

• [Book] Post-Scarcity Anarchism - Description of an economic system based on social ecology, libertarian municipalism, and an abundance of fundamental resources.
• [Fiction Books] The Culture Series - Scifi series, in post-scarcity and space-faring society.
• [Blog Post] A Roadmap to a Post-Scarcity Society - An actionable roadmap to post-scarcity and the role of automation in the process.
• [Blog Post] Basic Post Scarcity Q&A - FAQ on Basic Post Scarcity (opinionated)
• [Blog Post] Moore's Law for Everything - A US-centric proposal to redistribute AI benefits.
• [Wiki] adciv.org - Post-Scarcity Wiki, gives an accessible overview of the field.
• [Forum] Reddit Post-Scarcity
• [Video] Post Scarcity Civilizations - Broad exploration of how a post scarcity civilization could look like.
• [Project] Post Scarcity Map - This project is an attempt to provide unbiased answers to the following question: How far are we from achieving post-scarcity and what are the bottlenecks?
• [Project] Nextkind - For profit community actively working towards post scarcity.
• [Project] Humania - A moneyless gift-economy project, focused on building the Humania Urban Village: a hub for sustainable living and social innovation. (Discord)
• [Survey] The first Basic Post Scarcity Economy, Metaculus or Manifold Markets - When will Basic Post Scarcity Economy be achieved by a nation state?
• [Youtube Channel] David Shapiro - Covering a large number of topics related to post-scarcity, AI and AGI.
• [Short Story] Manna - Fictional story of two opposite futures in a robot dominated economy.

Economics

• [Book] The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
• [Book] Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
• [Book] Bullshit Jobs - Analysis of a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence.
• [Organisation] Singularity Group - Platform tailored for entrepreneurial leaders/founders to build high positive-impact ventures, using "exponential technologies".
• [Video] Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work - Discussion about economic policies from the perspective of an utilitarian planner.
• [Website] humanprogress.org - Plenty of datasets and trends illustrating improvements in human well-being in modern times.

Universal Basic Income

• [Website] Ubi Research - UBI Research is a think tank built to examine the merits and possible implementations of a UBI.
• [Video] Automated Economy Explained: Mechanics of a Basic Income - Simplified explanation of a UBI based on taxation for automated businesses.

Technology

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

• [Website] Artificial General Intelligence - A gentle introduction - Overview of AGI research.
• [Website] AI Impacts - Dedicated to answering decision-relevant questions about the future of AI. Notable for the visualization of tech and AI-related historic trends and timelines.
• [Book] The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Classic book on exponential progress.
• [Book] Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• [Book] Singularity Hypotheses - AI singularity scenarios.

Asteroid Mining and Space Tech

• [Book] Asteroid Mining 101
• [Book] Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques

Self Replication and Nanotechnology

• [Book] Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines - This book offers a general review of the voluminous theoretical and experimental literature pertaining to physical self-replicating systems and self-replication.
• [Book] Engines of Creation - Classic Nanotechnology Book.

3d Printing

• [Project] RepRap - General-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.

Footnotes

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