Even if saving money through AGI converts 1:1 into money after the singularity, it will probably be worth less in utility to you:
You’ll probably be able to buy planets post-AGI for the price of houses today. More generally your selfish and/or local and/or personal preferences will be fairly easily satisfiable even with small amounts of money, or to put it in other words, there are massive diminishing returns.
No one will be buying planets for the novelty or as an exotic vacation destination. The reason you buy a planet is to convert it into computing power, which you then attach to your own mind. If people aren’t explicitly prevented from using planets for that purpose, then planets are going to be in very high demand, and very useful for people on a personal level.
Is your selfish utility linear in computing power? Is the difference between how your life goes with a planet’s worth of compute that much bigger than how it goes with half a planet’s worth of compute? I doubt it.
Also, there are eight billion people now, and many orders of magnitude more planets, not to mention all the stars etc. “You’ll probably be able to buy planets post-AGI for the price of houses today” was probably a massive understatement.
No one will be buying planets for the novelty or as an exotic vacation destination. The reason you buy a planet is to convert it into computing power, which you then attach to your own mind. If people aren’t explicitly prevented from using planets for that purpose, then planets are going to be in very high demand, and very useful for people on a personal level.
Is your selfish utility linear in computing power? Is the difference between how your life goes with a planet’s worth of compute that much bigger than how it goes with half a planet’s worth of compute? I doubt it.
Also, there are eight billion people now, and many orders of magnitude more planets, not to mention all the stars etc. “You’ll probably be able to buy planets post-AGI for the price of houses today” was probably a massive understatement.