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What about the desire to not carry a massive life-support backpack everywhere, or the desire to not have leaked filth dripping down the back of your pantleg? Without mass production based on designs laid out by competent professional engineers, any half-baked plumbing project is going to leak, especially if it's under dynamic stresses.

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Don't actual people get most of their sense of meaning from fulfilling those kinds of "miserable thermostat" desires? Are you sure there would be enough subjective meaning left over to satisfy us if we automated the SIMS-style game we play all day?

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