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ASI might be a token-burning economic loop, not a robot uprising

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Most ASI discussions jump straight to a robot uprising. I find a much less cinematic ending more plausible: artificial superintelligence as the final state of an economic loop. Money becomes tokens. Tokens justify more hardware. Hardware makes more tokens possible. The loop closes, and the invoice…

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  1. 2026-10-26 16:11 · DEV Community — AI
    ASI might be a token-burning economic loop, not a robot uprising

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