I wrote this ~10 years ago in response to: "Can humans interact meaningfully with the economy when AI and robots are better at effectively everything? and if so, what would they do?"

My answer was basically "Yes." Much of my intuition then (and now) is that the Hedonic treadmill suggests something algorithmically intractable about the human condition, effectively akin to the Halting problem. In other words, giving feedback (i.e., "programming the machine" with data) will likely not disappear (and there will be plenty of value in human work) for a very long time.
 
I still hold this view, but am curious to hear how the literature and folks in general think about these kinds of projections, their intuition behind them, and possible formal connections to computer science :)