[ftxbro]

No it's not satire. It's one of those clickbaity contrarian articles like "actually using goto is great" or "sometimes wearing pants on head is the smart thing to do." The maxim that they are reacting to is the idea that because we don't trade with ants, smart AI won't trade with us if the cognitive difference is similar. I think their take is that once you can overcome some minimum threshold of communication ability then it does often make sense to trade with others even if they are much much stupider than you are, and that the reason we don't trade with ants is because of that communication barrier. Presumably they are suggesting that even if we will be much much stupider than AI, we will still be able to communicate with the AI in some manner that exceeds that threshold, and therefore they might want to trade with us in some way. But my main point is that it's a contrarian clickbait take that isn't meant to be taken too seriously or to be taken as satire it's to be taken as something to click on.