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by pygy_ 3376 days ago
None, it's just that "the market"/"the economy" as a self-maximizer process will select robots that feed it. Humans are just no longer the fittest links in the chain.

I'm not afraid of super-Einstein evil masterminds. More of heavy machinery with ant-like features that control the food/energy supply, and one day stop feeding us.

At some point farm land will become more valuable as a source of industrial energy than as a way to produce food.