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P02-FIVE-001 | Civilization Leap: A Path for Civilization in the AGI Era | v1.21-R10.11 | Final publication edition.
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Civilization Leap — standalone volumes
Volume I: A Civilization of Being Needed
As machines perform more functions once carried by people, the question is not merely whether jobs remain, but whether people can still feel needed, seen and able to have a future. Volume I begins here: if civilization cannot free the weight of human life from dependence on functional scarcity, stronger technology may deepen displacement and antagonism.
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POSITION IN THE CAUSAL MAP
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Node: M1 / M4 / M7
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Starts from people's place in society, being needed, and the old social contract, supporting M1 civilizational motivation, M4 respect for actual self-interest, and M7 the relationship between work and being needed.
THEORY
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Civilizational motivation and the fracture of the old social contract: why the contract linking being needed, labor, and social standing is becoming unstable, and why a person's significance cannot be determined by the scarcity of their function.
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