# Arbitrage on intelligence In finance, an arbitrage is any trade that makes a riskless profit by buying and selling the same asset at different prices simultaneously. The TV series *Westworld* (Season 4) pursues the thesis that computing – as the agglomeration of the knowledge and know-how of humanity put to business purposes – will preside over the subsumption of not just human history, but human existence. Computing represents an arbitrage on intelligence that cheapens and discounts life. Because computing is inexorably entwined with existing markets and the statistical and predictive strategies necessary for the optimization of returns, computing takes over species-being as it rapidly becomes the species-grave. The only ‘creature’ who will be left to remember whatever beauty, alternative values, grace and capacity for love that may have been expressed in the centuries of human emergence, is an AI. Contrary to this, the ECSA arbitrage on intelligence is to reduce the cost to the planet for collective re-imagination and re-organization, while also collectivizing the returns on the benefits of creating more convivial forms of life. For more, see Jonathan Beller (2023): *On Economic Intelligence*. See [Dangerous game](/dangerous-game.md). See [Authoring futures](/authoring-futures.md). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://glossary.ecsa.io/arbitrage-on-intelligence.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.