Laws of economics and thermodynamics will still apply despite AI abundance

Laws of economics and thermodynamics will still apply despite AI abundance | to the extent there are any scarce physical resources and to the extent that there are ever in the future multiple actors, I I think laws of thermodynamics probably the laws of economics will probably still apply.

to the extent there are any scarce physical resources and to the extent that there are ever in the future multiple actors, I I think laws of thermodynamics probably the laws of economics will probably still apply.

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