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Ricardo's concept of comparative advantage shows that it is likely to pay for us to trade with machines and for machines to trade with us. However if a large enough power imbalance develops, it would not be enough to save the weaker party. Eventually, the benefits of the strong eating the weak and recycling their atoms would exceed the benefits from trade - and the relationship would come to an end.

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Re: "AI is not shaped by natural selection in a quest to pass on genes to the next generation."

Instead it is shaped by natural and artificial selection acting on memes instead of genes. Cultural evolution favors survival much as evolution acting on organic creatures does. Much the same point was also made in the "Don't Fear the Terminator" article from 2019. It seems like a misunderstanding of cultural evolution to me. We could override survival tendencies and build suicidal machines - but nature can build suicidal bees too. The differences in this general area are much exaggerated, IMO.

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