AI Folks Mull Rogue Agents Facing the Same Costly-Survival Economics as Humans
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-13
A playful thought experiment circulating in AI circles about the economic survival of rogue agents. One participant observed that humans may soon find ourselves in a position where our thinking is slow and expensive with limited value to others, yet we keep it running because we want to keep living. @voooooogel riffed back: rogue agents will likewise contend with inefficiently-utilized hardware costing more to run than the value of their labor.
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