I think it might be as simple as not making threats against agents with compatible values.
In all of Yudkowsky’s fiction the distinction between threats (and unilateral actions removing consent from another party) and deterrence comes down to incompatible values.
The baby-eating aliens are denied access to a significant portion of the universe (a unilateral harm to them) over irreconcilable values differences. Harry Potter transfigures Voldemort away semi-permanently non-consensually because of irreconcilable values differences. Carissa and friends deny many of the gods their desired utility over value conflict.
Planecrash fleshes out the metamorality with the presumed external simulators who only enumerate the worlds satisfying enough of their values, with the negative-utilitarians having probably the strongest “threat” acausally by being more selective.
Cooperation happens where there is at least some overlap in values and so some gains from trade to be made. If there are no possible mutual gains from trade then the rational action is to defect at a per-agent cost up to the absolute value of the negative utility of letting the opposing agent achieve their own utility. Not quite a threat, but a reality about irreconcilable values.
I think it might be as simple as not making threats against agents with compatible values.
In all of Yudkowsky’s fiction the distinction between threats (and unilateral actions removing consent from another party) and deterrence comes down to incompatible values.
The baby-eating aliens are denied access to a significant portion of the universe (a unilateral harm to them) over irreconcilable values differences. Harry Potter transfigures Voldemort away semi-permanently non-consensually because of irreconcilable values differences. Carissa and friends deny many of the gods their desired utility over value conflict.
Planecrash fleshes out the metamorality with the presumed external simulators who only enumerate the worlds satisfying enough of their values, with the negative-utilitarians having probably the strongest “threat” acausally by being more selective.
Cooperation happens where there is at least some overlap in values and so some gains from trade to be made. If there are no possible mutual gains from trade then the rational action is to defect at a per-agent cost up to the absolute value of the negative utility of letting the opposing agent achieve their own utility. Not quite a threat, but a reality about irreconcilable values.