I don’t want to mug the AIs, in the language of acausal trade, I just want to trade a slice of my O(p) Universe-share to save others. As Ryan says in the sister comment, that should be enough imo.
For the AIs to run sims themselves, the real cost is not running the sims, but paying the cooperating AIs in the sims and outbidding humanity. Given that some humans are willing to pay a lot more than one planet to save Earth, while an AI with linear utility wouldn’t make this deal, I think it will be hard to outbid us.
I don’t want to mug the AIs, in the language of acausal trade, I just want to trade a slice of my O(p) Universe-share to save others. As Ryan says in the sister comment, that should be enough imo.
For the AIs to run sims themselves, the real cost is not running the sims, but paying the cooperating AIs in the sims and outbidding humanity. Given that some humans are willing to pay a lot more than one planet to save Earth, while an AI with linear utility wouldn’t make this deal, I think it will be hard to outbid us.