1. companies figure out that humans are expensive security risks and start doing without
2. machine economy does not turn on humans, it just increasingly ignores them, humanity watches at the sidelines/bottom of the gravity well while the solar system lights up
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3. wealth continuously extracted from human economy into machine economy, human economy shrinks, wars among humans over what's left
4. humans still occasionally useful as sources of telos, will organelles inside corporations, or maybe gut bacteria
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5. humanity both outpaced and too poor to be useful anymore, non-symbiotic humans reduced to vermin, forced out of more and more habitats
6. eventually exterminated as a side thought during some house cleaning
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I see this already happening to the poor/3rd world. They get scraps at periphery, like pigeons, inconsequential.
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