The one caveat here is that any change to the laws of physics that somehow managed to find a loophole in thermodynamics would let you get unbounded supply to match unbounded demand, and that probably does deserve the name of post-scarcity, but yes people are incorrectly assuming AI will bring about post-scarcity.
Compute, information/entropy and what people can do with their property all become abundant if we assume an infinite energy source.
Compute and information/entropy become cheap, because the costs of running computations/getting information and entropy like the Landauef limit become mostly irrelevant if you can assume you can always generate the energy you need.
Somewhat similarly, what people can do with their property becomes way more abundant with infinite energy machines, though here it depends on how the machine works, primarily because it allows people to set up their own governments with their own laws given enough time (because everything comes from energy, in the end), and this could end up undermining traditional governments.
The one caveat here is that any change to the laws of physics that somehow managed to find a loophole in thermodynamics would let you get unbounded supply to match unbounded demand, and that probably does deserve the name of post-scarcity, but yes people are incorrectly assuming AI will bring about post-scarcity.
Infinite eg energy would just push your scarcity to other resources, eg.
Compute, information/entropy and what people can do with their property all become abundant if we assume an infinite energy source.
Compute and information/entropy become cheap, because the costs of running computations/getting information and entropy like the Landauef limit become mostly irrelevant if you can assume you can always generate the energy you need.
Somewhat similarly, what people can do with their property becomes way more abundant with infinite energy machines, though here it depends on how the machine works, primarily because it allows people to set up their own governments with their own laws given enough time (because everything comes from energy, in the end), and this could end up undermining traditional governments.