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> Agents replace large portions of the current service economy greatly increasing automation / efficiency for companies.

> People continue to live their lives

Presumably large numbers of those people no longer have jobs, and therefore no income.

> we get human level AGI and hit a ceiling there

Recently I've been wondering if our best chance for a brake on runaway non-hard-takeoff superintelligence would be that the economy would be trashed.

People will move from the service economy to the entertainment economy powered by Youtube, Tiktok, Mr. Beast, and others.

Half-joking. In seriousness, something like a UBI will most likely happen.

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