Runescape experiment mirrors potential AI future: abundant commodities, worthless currency, scarce resources become valuable.

Cala research mapped this as a preview of the AIdriven human economies. Though critics like Tier Zoo point out the game's quirks such as raw materials outvaluing finished goods due to experience points, the experiment sparked rethinking of scarce assets like energy, compute and land in an AI abundant future. So it is quite interesting because basically what happened here is there was little to no cost of labor. So there was abundant commodities. Currency inflated away and we basically went back to a trade and barter system. No one wanted cash because cash was meaningless and what you wanted was goods. You wanted food. You wanted supplies. Huge swarm of contention is certain resources with limited respawn rates became valuable. So is this a um glimpse into the future? If you listen to someone like Elon Musk, um, you know, he's talking about universal high income, not universal basic income, universal high income, that AI and robotics are going to be so ubiquitous within society that no one's going to need to work anymore and you'll just get paid to [ __ ] I don't know, jerk off to your AI girlfriend with your robo flashlight.