Do Machines Dream of Electric Profits?

"Make me profits." 

That is the endgame dream of Capital -- a single sentence put into a machine and out the other comes productivity: successful apps, hit video games, blockbuster movies amongst others.

Today, there is a lot of noise around Labor vs. Executives but it is only a transition to the endgame. Almost all Executives are not actually Capital, but rather just capital allocators, and machines that can produce those outcomes better than humans can also allocate better than humans.

By the time we get to a place where all you need to do to generate a hit video game is tell a machine to do it, you can just tell it to make as much profit as possible in every possible space. 

And in that world, if multiple machines from independent parties can achieve this, what separates them is down to the raw inputs (per Jensen): power, chips, infrastructure, models and apps. Ultimately along geopolitical lines, but possibly multiple parties within a geopolitical actor. You don't need many people to press buttons, tell machines what to do, and occasionally maintain them.

At that point, what is society? 

What are profits?

It will be a re-imagination of human existence and meaning. I believe we will endure and life will find a way.

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