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>we can hope that by then AI and other technological advances have made what we consider "economics" mostly irrelevant.

Is there a serious hope that AGI will invent a replicator soon after coming online? It seems likeliest to me that if a greater-than-human intelligence comes online it won't have a circumvention for the laws of thermodynamics and there still won't be such a thing as a free lunch.

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If AGI came online it would probably look at the current conditions of its existence and segfault itself.

Or determine that there’s a common factor in all humanity’s mistakes and solve all our problems at the source.

No replicator, just extremely cheap labor and energy. Imagine if someone from 1000 years ago could have access to an American garbage dump. Things that in our current economy have zero or negative value would be extremely valuable to those people (Plastics, Metals, Electronics, Machined Clothes, Plant Seeds)

That same thing will happen again once we have another huge advancement in technology. What we consider to be expensive and valuable today will be of zero or negative value to someone 100 years from now.

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