On some level, people prefer to maintain control, but also a lot of people would say, “Please make me a billion-dollar company. Go do it yourself.” The natural gradient falls towards humans offloading more and more of their cognition and decisions into increasingly broadly agentic systems which are doing the types of tasks that unboundedness is very entangled with. There’s a strong incentive not to remain bounded.

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