Perhaps trying implies too much deliberateness, but it sounds like an inevitable outcome to me. One thing that the market will reward handsomely is bringing co

Perhaps trying implies too much deliberateness, but it sounds like an inevitable outcome to me. One thing that the market will reward handsomely is bringing costs down. When costs go down, people consume more. If you're 40 or older, think about how many computers your family owned in your house growing up. We owned some hand-me-downs, and purchased 1 computer in my first 15 years. We bought about 4 in the next 3 years because they were advancing rapidly, but more importantly, because they had become much cheaper than they had been 5-10 years before. Today, many families might have a laptop for each person, replaced every 3-4 years. One of the first things an AGI would be put to work doing is manufacturing, as we're already finding that it's hard to get people to do these stressful manufacturing jobs except in places where they're really desperate. Witness the moving of jobs from US -> China -> Southeast Asia.