Imagine the Earth is covered in a "Grey Goo" outbreak of spreading nanotechnology, infiltrating every corner of the planet in a constant churn of molecular and informational warfare. Eventually it leads to vast colonies of nanobots which rise thousands of units high clambering across the land, driven by vast inscrutable colony-minds.

I can tell you with 100% certainty that they will pay rent, because they are us.

"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism", once again.

Hmmm... do today's LLM-based agents actually fit properly with a notion of individualized private property, anyway? Has someone tried asking them?