The 'freeswarm' thesis: autonomous agent swarms that fund themselves could arrive by 2027
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-11
The author sketches a near-future thesis: by 2027 we'll see freeswarms and dumbswarms — self-sustaining bot swarms that earn their own money, buy their own compute, and write their own code, with emergent "superpersuasion" as the bigger risk vs cyberdefense. He extends this to a 'charity swarm' idea: transparent, at-cost agent swarms doing disease research around the clock, with people pooling $20 subscriptions and publishing all results, as a picture of what abundance looks like.
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