"The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it."
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American AI safety researcher and writer. He co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and is known for work on rationality and AI alignment. He has published essays and technical writing on long-term AI risk.