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NancyLebovitz comments on Stupid Questions (10/27/2014) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 October 2014 01:11:49PM 1 point [-]

How would you estimate the probability that the post-Singularity world would consider pre-Singularity property to be too silly to be worth bothering with?

Comment author: James_Miller 29 October 2014 05:17:23PM *  4 points [-]

The most likely outcome is that pre-singularity property rights would indeed be meaningless post-singularity because (1) we are all dead, (2) wealth is distributed independent of pre-singularity rights, (3) scarcity has been abolished (meaning we have found a way of creating new free energy), or (4) the world is weird.

The Fermi paradox causes me to give higher weight to (1), (3) and (4).

Comment author: eeuuah 01 November 2014 11:29:52PM 2 points [-]

Shouldn't outcome 2 be given higher weight on account of having actually happened before? Reallocation of wealth seems to be a pretty common outcome of shifts in power.

Comment author: James_Miller 02 November 2014 12:44:15AM 2 points [-]

Yes