> Since everyone would be able to build exactly the same quality of products, this would linger on marketing tactics, deception, corporate sabotage, and similar

> Since everyone would be able to build exactly the same quality of products, this would linger on marketing tactics, deception, corporate sabotage, and similar strategies. Through good old fashioned, malicious, human ingenuity. :) I could see it unfolding the way you said. Or AGI is simply not achieved for another 100 years. Or maybe never. Or Butlerian Jihad. But yeah, I think the timeline's pretty fucked.