[skinfaxi]

For human beings, profit motive is driven by material wants and needs. What would drive the profit motive for an AI agent? Whatever the human sets as the target? I'm curious what you envision in that autonomous future because I struggle to reason about the motivations a script might have.

[Ferret7446]

The obvious answer is that the agent uses the money to pay for its own compute. The ones that run out, well...

[skinfaxi]

To what end? What would it do with the compute beyond earn more money to pay for its own compute?