Could you elaborate on your last paragraph? Presuming a state overrides its economic incentives (ie establishes a robust post-AGI welfare system), I’d like to see how you think the selection pressures would take hold.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think “utopian communism” and/or a world without human agency are good. I concur with Rudolf entirely here—those outcomes miss agency what has so far been an core part of the human experience. I want dynamism to exist, though I’m still working on if/how I think we could achieve that. I’ll save that for a future post.
I don’t know how selection pressures would take hold exactly, but it seems to me that in order to prevent selection pressures, there would have to be complete and indefinite control over the environment. This is not possible because the universe is largely computationally irreducible and chaotic. Eventually, something surprising will occur which an existing system will not survive. Diverse ecosystems are robust to this to some extent, but that requires competition, which in turn creates selection pressures.
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Could you elaborate on your last paragraph? Presuming a state overrides its economic incentives (ie establishes a robust post-AGI welfare system), I’d like to see how you think the selection pressures would take hold.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think “utopian communism” and/or a world without human agency are good. I concur with Rudolf entirely here—those outcomes miss agency what has so far been an core part of the human experience. I want dynamism to exist, though I’m still working on if/how I think we could achieve that. I’ll save that for a future post.
I don’t know how selection pressures would take hold exactly, but it seems to me that in order to prevent selection pressures, there would have to be complete and indefinite control over the environment. This is not possible because the universe is largely computationally irreducible and chaotic. Eventually, something surprising will occur which an existing system will not survive. Diverse ecosystems are robust to this to some extent, but that requires competition, which in turn creates selection pressures.