<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 7:02 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">However technology is rapidly approaching the point where machines alone can do what somebody wants to get done, completely bypassing human labor, and thus also bypassing the abstract concept of "money".</span></b></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Only in certain fields. Pure knowledge work, some factory automation, even farm automation - although it will be a while before one could safely bet one's life on being supported by a completely automated and self-maintaining farm. Not politics, nor most things dealing with agreements that fundamentally involve other people. There is some doubt as to how creative the current sorts of AIs are turning out to be, although even if they always require a human to spark any truly new idea, they can fan the flames of millions (perhaps some day billions) of creators to where it can seem like the AIs themselves are coming up with the ideas.</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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