Clever. I only figured this one out recently myself.
Here's the core issue: "economics" or "the economy" or basically any ideological, rule-based mode of controlling human conduct is all really just a massively-parallel distributed computation/program running on meatware substrate-nodes. The Unfriendly AI is already here, it's called capitalism, it already rules the world, and it runs on us.
The computer is unfriendly, and we are the computer. This is why it has become a political act to remind people that they actually do value things other than capital accumulation.
Here's the core issue: "economics" or "the economy" or basically any ideological, rule-based mode of controlling human conduct is all really just a massively-parallel distributed computation/program running on meatware substrate-nodes. The Unfriendly AI is already here, it's called capitalism, it already rules the world, and it runs on us.
The computer is unfriendly, and we are the computer. This is why it has become a political act to remind people that they actually do value things other than capital accumulation.