An agency can put its end-goals away for later, without pursuing them immediately, save them until it has its monopoly.
It’s not that difficult to imagine. Maybe an argument will come along that it’s just too hard to make a self-improving agency with a goal more complex than “understand your surroundings and keep yourself in motion”, but it’s a hell of a thing to settle for.
more than the ones optimizing for increasing their power? i find it doubtful.
An agency can put its end-goals away for later, without pursuing them immediately, save them until it has its monopoly.
It’s not that difficult to imagine. Maybe an argument will come along that it’s just too hard to make a self-improving agency with a goal more complex than “understand your surroundings and keep yourself in motion”, but it’s a hell of a thing to settle for.