It can also just turn into a waste if you build all the automation to turn around and only use it once, recalling https://xkcd.com/1205/
Now that said, the economics have changed in a world where many trivial automations can be thrown together by agents themselves in a fraction of the time it would have taken a human.
Until it doesn't.
Wild, unexpected failure modes can really kick you in the junk sometimes. Sometimes you just end up doing very bad things very quickly :-)
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It can also just turn into a waste if you build all the automation to turn around and only use it once, recalling https://xkcd.com/1205/
Now that said, the economics have changed in a world where many trivial automations can be thrown together by agents themselves in a fraction of the time it would have taken a human.