Researcher: The world economy is being retooled for imminent human obsolescence
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-14
zetalyrae offers a pithy but resonant observation: the entire world economy is being retooled in expectation of imminent human obsolescence — capturing the core assumption behind the current AGI investment wave, where massive compute and infrastructure spending presupposes a rapid decline in the value of human labor.
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