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Chance-Device 4 hours ago

On competition between countries: you’re imagining the world economy as working in the same way pre and post AGI, I doubt it will work the same way at all.

There is not a single country nor trading block on Earth who is going to allow some AI dominant superpower to ravage them. The idea that America or China wins an economic game here is absurd, what happens instead is that trade barriers go up hard and the world fragments into blocks that tolerate AI to differing levels. Unevenly distributed AGI kills globalism the next day.

For the rest of your reply you ignore the “at least” part in that sentence, and also seem to expect a detailed policy proposal. The details can be worked out; there is some reasonable compromise between what activities AI can and cannot be used for, and what level of capability can be deployed where.

More broadly, you seem to believe in a just world fallacy of unregulated capitalism being an inherent good. It isn’t, and regulations exist even in the United States, so this unregulated state doesn’t exist now.

Moreover, regulations and redistribution are stronger elsewhere in the developed world, and there is a strong argument to be made that the lack of these in the US, and the gap between rich and poor that it causes, is responsible for more suffering than having more of these things outside of it.

treis 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think this adds up. The AGI blocks will have AGI kill bots and those that don't won't have a choice about what they will or will not allow.

lelanthran 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't think this adds up. The AGI blocks will have AGI kill bots and those that don't

will have nukes.

Doesn't matter how much "intelligence" you have stockpiled when nukes start raining down on you.

Chance-Device 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well if your baseline scenario is that swarms of marauding kill bots murder everyone then yeah, this is all moot.