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AI Is Making Us Build Too Much | Simon Green
Yegge presents this as the unexpected emergence of civilisation inside an agent system. His argument is that a group of interchangeable, amnesiac agents needs explicit law in the same way that groups of humans need institutions. I think there is quite a lot of truth in that.
In some ways, I feel like the whole arc of technology for the last two decades is building tools to solve problems - that then need tools to solve the problem those tools create.