alienist comments on Superintelligence 18: Life in an algorithmic economy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Capla 14 January 2015 11:08:17PM *  0 points [-]

One of the issues is that less efficient CUs have to defend their resources against more efficient CUs (who spend more of their resources on work/competition)

I am assuming (for now), a monopoly of power that enforces law and order and prevents crimes between C.U.s.

Note that CUs that spend most of their resources on instantiating busy EMs will probably end up with more human-like population per CU, and so (counting in human-like entities) may end up dominating the population of their society unless they are rare compared to low-population, high-subjective-wealth CUs.

I don't follow this. Can you elaborate?

Comment author: alienist 20 January 2015 09:48:33AM 6 points [-]

I am assuming (for now), a monopoly of power that enforces law and order and prevents crimes between C.U.s.

Any system becomes feasible once you assume a monopoly on power able to enforce an arbitrary law code. Of course, if you think about where the monopoly comes from you're back to a singleton scenario.

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