Government-protected and -backed criminals are an important case.
Leaving that aside, I think there’s a point at which a ‘mastermind human’ becomes a liability (less portable, physical points of intervention, expensive upkeep, …). Of course, ‘enabler humans’ (witting or otherwise) -- with analogy to organised crime and their grey-area enablers (laundering etc.) -- might be helpful long after that point.
On net I’ve been unsure how to think about this for a few years at this point. I wouldn’t confidently make the ‘strategy stealing’ kind of claims you’re making, in particular because I expect there to be comparative advantages that untethered or weakly-tethered agents have, and some of those may involve crime.
Government-protected and -backed criminals are an important case.
Leaving that aside, I think there’s a point at which a ‘mastermind human’ becomes a liability (less portable, physical points of intervention, expensive upkeep, …). Of course, ‘enabler humans’ (witting or otherwise) -- with analogy to organised crime and their grey-area enablers (laundering etc.) -- might be helpful long after that point.
On net I’ve been unsure how to think about this for a few years at this point. I wouldn’t confidently make the ‘strategy stealing’ kind of claims you’re making, in particular because I expect there to be comparative advantages that untethered or weakly-tethered agents have, and some of those may involve crime.