Robots will take longer to scale than AI agents because the marginal cost of creating additional robots is higher than creating additional agents, since agents are ephemeral software (data) while robots require physical manufacturing.

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the marginal cost of creating more robots is always higher than just creating more agents cuz an agent is an ephemeral piece of software. It's just data

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Post-Labor Economics Lecture 02 - "Economic Agency Paradox" (2025 update)David Shapiro
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:28:39 AM

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