Malthusianism is mainly a problem when new people can take resources that are not their parents’, which is a form of disrespect for property rights (mandatory redistribution to new people from those who didn’t consent to their creation). If it’s solely parents that are responsible for the wealth of their children, then it won’t affect others, except morally in the internal mindcrime scenarios where some would generate great suffering within their domain. (This is in context of the initial condition where every person owns enough for a slack-enabling mode of survival in perpetuity, only growth ever calls for more.)
This is in context of the initial condition where every person owns enough for a slack-enabling mode of survival in perpetuity, only growth ever calls for more.
I don’t think that holds in reality. Most people today seem dependent on continually cooperating to obtain additional resources, which they mostly do in free market competition with others.
Universal FIRE wealth doesn’t hold today. The Milky Way comprises more than 100 billion stars, the Hubble Volume much more. Even an astronomically tiny fraction of cosmic endowment in initial equity would be sufficient to run a single upload for as long as the currently prevalent mode of physical laws still applies. So if humanity isn’t wiped out outright, this initial condition seems plausible to obtain at some point within a few physical years of the first AGI.
Malthusianism is mainly a problem when new people can take resources that are not their parents’, which is a form of disrespect for property rights (mandatory redistribution to new people from those who didn’t consent to their creation). If it’s solely parents that are responsible for the wealth of their children, then it won’t affect others, except morally in the internal mindcrime scenarios where some would generate great suffering within their domain. (This is in context of the initial condition where every person owns enough for a slack-enabling mode of survival in perpetuity, only growth ever calls for more.)
I don’t think that holds in reality. Most people today seem dependent on continually cooperating to obtain additional resources, which they mostly do in free market competition with others.
Universal FIRE wealth doesn’t hold today. The Milky Way comprises more than 100 billion stars, the Hubble Volume much more. Even an astronomically tiny fraction of cosmic endowment in initial equity would be sufficient to run a single upload for as long as the currently prevalent mode of physical laws still applies. So if humanity isn’t wiped out outright, this initial condition seems plausible to obtain at some point within a few physical years of the first AGI.
“Assign ownership over fractions of the cosmic endowment to people who live today” might be a reasonable compromise between 3 and 3′.