I think the comparison to historical colonization might be relevant and worth engaging with in such a post. E.g., does your model predict what happened in africa and the new world?
I agree the analogy to colonization is worth addressing. My primary response is that historical colonialism seems better modeled as a war between independent cultures and societies with different legal systems that didn’t share much prior history.
I think the colonization of Africa probably wasn’t actually very profitable for Europeans. Present day international trade seems better, even selfishly.
Moreover, my model here doesn’t predict war will never happen. In fact, I think war can easily happen if one or more of the actors involved are irrational, unwilling to compromise, or mistaken about their likelihood of winning.
My argument is more about the fact that AIs will likely inherit a lot from our current institutions and legal systems, allowing humans to retain substantial rights. And furthermore I think systems of compromise, trade, and law emerge robustly in states of competition between rational actors. I’m not merely giving a generic take that conflicts between agents are rare.
I think the comparison to historical colonization might be relevant and worth engaging with in such a post. E.g., does your model predict what happened in africa and the new world?
I agree the analogy to colonization is worth addressing. My primary response is that historical colonialism seems better modeled as a war between independent cultures and societies with different legal systems that didn’t share much prior history.
I think the colonization of Africa probably wasn’t actually very profitable for Europeans. Present day international trade seems better, even selfishly.
Moreover, my model here doesn’t predict war will never happen. In fact, I think war can easily happen if one or more of the actors involved are irrational, unwilling to compromise, or mistaken about their likelihood of winning.
My argument is more about the fact that AIs will likely inherit a lot from our current institutions and legal systems, allowing humans to retain substantial rights. And furthermore I think systems of compromise, trade, and law emerge robustly in states of competition between rational actors. I’m not merely giving a generic take that conflicts between agents are rare.