Hello, wonderful people. Welcome back. My guest today is John Danahe. We're talking about what happens if robots automate the world.

Having a job is valorized in modern society. But if our jobs are taken over by robots, will we find a sense of purpose in other things outside of work, or are we just doomed to lead a meaningless life?

So today, expect to learn why technological unemployment might be desirable, what a cyborg utopia might look like, why John thinks losing work might not result in a loss of purpose, the risks of sacrificing human values in pursuit of utopia, and much more.

Just all the robot episodes at the moment, you know if it's from a sex robot to a self-driving car to robot overlords and us existing in a vat somewhere. It's cool. I like thinking about this stuff. I like thinking about the future and where society might end up.

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John Danahe, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me on. It's a great honour and privilege to be here.

Before we get started, there is a very famous Brazilian Jiu Jitsu teacher who shares your name. Did you know this?

I am all too aware of this fact, yeah.

Yeah, so I posted a big list of upcoming guests on my Instagram. No, like, mate, I didn't know that you're interested in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

And I'm thinking, does a guy who talks about that automation and robots also do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training, but it turns out that it's just, it's just two different interesting people.

Yeah, your, your fans probably got very excited when they thought it was the other John Danahe. He's got a much higher profile than we.

Little do they know that they actually wanted to learn about robots. So what, what are we going to be talking about today? What's the topic of our discussion?

Yeah, so we're going to talk about this book that I wrote a couple years ago on automation and utopia, which is kind of a very abstract philosophical look at the meaning of life in a post work world.

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