Yes, I was in basically exactly this mindset a year ago. Since then, my hope for a sane controlled transition with humanity’s hand on the tiller has been slipping. I now place more hope in a vision with less top-down “yang” (ala Carlsmith) control, and more “green”/”yin”. Decentralized contracts, many players bargaining for win-win solutions, a diverse landscape of players messily stumbling forward with conflicting agendas. What if we can have a messy world and make do with well-designed contracts with peer-to-peer enforcement mechanisms? Not a free-for-all, but a system where contract violation results in enforcement by a jury of one’s peers?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DvHokvyr2cZiWJ55y/2-skim-the-manual-intelligent-voluntary-cooperation?commentId=BBjpfYXWywb2RKjz5
Yes, I was in basically exactly this mindset a year ago. Since then, my hope for a sane controlled transition with humanity’s hand on the tiller has been slipping. I now place more hope in a vision with less top-down “yang” (ala Carlsmith) control, and more “green”/”yin”. Decentralized contracts, many players bargaining for win-win solutions, a diverse landscape of players messily stumbling forward with conflicting agendas. What if we can have a messy world and make do with well-designed contracts with peer-to-peer enforcement mechanisms? Not a free-for-all, but a system where contract violation results in enforcement by a jury of one’s peers? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DvHokvyr2cZiWJ55y/2-skim-the-manual-intelligent-voluntary-cooperation?commentId=BBjpfYXWywb2RKjz5