I’ve been thinking along these lines for the past few years, but I feel like my thinking was clarified and boosted by Allison’s recent series: Gaming the Future
The gist of the idea is to create clever systems of decentralized control and voluntary interaction which can still manage to coordinate on difficult risky tasks (such as enforcing defensive laws against weapons of mass destruction). Such systems could shift humanity out of the Pareto suboptimal lose-lose traps and races we are stuck in. Win-win solutions to our biggest current problems seem possible, and coordination seems like the biggest blocker.
I am hopeful that one of the things we can do with just-before-the-brink AI will be to accelerate the design and deployment of such voluntary coordination contracts.
My current best guess: Subsidiarity
I’ve been thinking along these lines for the past few years, but I feel like my thinking was clarified and boosted by Allison’s recent series: Gaming the Future
The gist of the idea is to create clever systems of decentralized control and voluntary interaction which can still manage to coordinate on difficult risky tasks (such as enforcing defensive laws against weapons of mass destruction). Such systems could shift humanity out of the Pareto suboptimal lose-lose traps and races we are stuck in. Win-win solutions to our biggest current problems seem possible, and coordination seems like the biggest blocker.
I am hopeful that one of the things we can do with just-before-the-brink AI will be to accelerate the design and deployment of such voluntary coordination contracts.