Directionally agree, but:
A) Short period of trade before we become utterly useless is not much comfort.
B) Trade is a particular case of bootstrapping influence on what an agent value to influence on their behaviour. The other major way of doing that is blackmail—which is much more effective in many circumstances, and would have been far more common if the State didn’t blackmail us to not blackmail each other, to honour contacts, etc.
BTW those two points are basically how many people afraid that capitalism (i.e. our trade with super human organisations) may go wrong:
A) Automaton may make us less and less economically useful.
B) enough money may give an organisation the ability to blackmail—private army, or more likely influence on governmental power.
Assuming that automation here mean AI, this is basically hypothesising a phase in which the two kinds of super human agents (AI and companies) are still incentivized to cooperate with each other but not with us.
Directionally agree, but: A) Short period of trade before we become utterly useless is not much comfort. B) Trade is a particular case of bootstrapping influence on what an agent value to influence on their behaviour. The other major way of doing that is blackmail—which is much more effective in many circumstances, and would have been far more common if the State didn’t blackmail us to not blackmail each other, to honour contacts, etc.
BTW those two points are basically how many people afraid that capitalism (i.e. our trade with super human organisations) may go wrong: A) Automaton may make us less and less economically useful. B) enough money may give an organisation the ability to blackmail—private army, or more likely influence on governmental power.
Assuming that automation here mean AI, this is basically hypothesising a phase in which the two kinds of super human agents (AI and companies) are still incentivized to cooperate with each other but not with us.