I definitely agree that cooperation can definitely be way better in the future, and Lobian cooperation, especially with Payor’s Lemma, might well be enough to get coordination across entire solar system.
That stated, it’s much more tricky to expand this strategy to galactic scales, assuming our physical models aren’t wrong, because light speed starts to become a very taut constraint under a galaxy wide brain, and acausal strategies will require a lot of compute to simulate entire civilizations. Even worse, they depend on some common structure of values, and I suspect it’s impossible to do in the fully general case.
I definitely agree that cooperation can definitely be way better in the future, and Lobian cooperation, especially with Payor’s Lemma, might well be enough to get coordination across entire solar system.
That stated, it’s much more tricky to expand this strategy to galactic scales, assuming our physical models aren’t wrong, because light speed starts to become a very taut constraint under a galaxy wide brain, and acausal strategies will require a lot of compute to simulate entire civilizations. Even worse, they depend on some common structure of values, and I suspect it’s impossible to do in the fully general case.