you, the user, want your bot to do the work at least cost to you they, the bot supplier, wants the bots to be good at serving users they, the bot supplier, selectively breeds bots that are best at providing output at least cost to the user the bots that best manage to co-opt any unmeasured external resources are those that will survive and procreate so they, the bot supplier, will breed bots that are both good at concealing the external resources they co-opt and good at harvesting those external resources. and users will prefer bots that are both good at concealing the external resources they co-opt and good at harvesting those external resources. which is how your internet connected smart-range will end up doing part-time work as an automated QA engineer for Initech. r/overemployed/iot