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I just want an AI agent that I prompt with my bank account data and the phrase "make me some money", so I can come back after a year and see that bank account doubling.

Meanwhile I'd pretty much spend the time on the beach.

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Any significant edge in the market will swiftly be corrected. If it doesn't, the entire market collapses. We can't all sit back at the beach doing nothing while our autonomous AI agents make us all millionaires. Where is that money coming from? Who is generating it?

Money is just an expression of value, either delivered already or promised to be delivered in the future. I can certainly imagine a world where everyone sits back and all the value they require is delivered by robots, they who have better or more robots get more value.

What a nice dream. Unfortunately, we do not live in that world today and a lot of powerful people don't want us to live in that world tomorrow. These people will continue to enforce power structures that let them chiefly benefit from increased automation, not the masses.

I totally agree with you. I was just trying to be funny.

"No such thing as a free lunch."

In all seriousness if such a system were to exist, why wouldn't the creator simply use it to make great returns for themself instead of scraps for everyone else?

Also, I think it's existence might disrupt the financial system shomeewhat!

Since you are asking this, there are people, who instead of becoming rich themselves, prefer to sell courses, newsletters and books teaching others how to become rich, out of the goodness of their hearts.

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