I wonder also if the conflicts that remain are nevertheless more peaceful. When hunter-gatherer tribes fight each other, they often murder all the men and enslave the women, or so I hear. Similar things happened with farmer societies sometimes, but also sometimes they just become new territories and have to pay tribute and levy conscripts and endure the occasional pillage. And then industrialized modern nations even have rules about how you can’t rape and pillage and genocide and sell into slavery the citizens of your enemy. Perhaps AI conflicts would be even more peaceful. For example, perhaps they would look something more like fancy maneuvers, propaganda, and hacking, with swift capitulation by the “checkmated” AI, which is nevertheless allowed to continue existing with some smaller amount of influence over the future. Perhaps no property would even be destroyed in the entire war!
Just spitballing here. I feel much less confident in this trend than in the trend I pointed out above.
I wonder also if the conflicts that remain are nevertheless more peaceful. When hunter-gatherer tribes fight each other, they often murder all the men and enslave the women, or so I hear. Similar things happened with farmer societies sometimes, but also sometimes they just become new territories and have to pay tribute and levy conscripts and endure the occasional pillage. And then industrialized modern nations even have rules about how you can’t rape and pillage and genocide and sell into slavery the citizens of your enemy. Perhaps AI conflicts would be even more peaceful. For example, perhaps they would look something more like fancy maneuvers, propaganda, and hacking, with swift capitulation by the “checkmated” AI, which is nevertheless allowed to continue existing with some smaller amount of influence over the future. Perhaps no property would even be destroyed in the entire war!
Just spitballing here. I feel much less confident in this trend than in the trend I pointed out above.