Patchwork is a substitute for The Cathedral/The Dream. Not an enemy of it.
That's the conclusion that #Moldbug is going for.
Eliezer Yudkowsky also proposed similar solutions in the context of AI alignment (I think he called it "Sysop" or something?).
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> "Picture a Cambodia that's secure from Vietnamese invasion." This is certainly a risk. But with AI weapons system this risk is coming anyway. We have to deal with it.
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And Gnon only helps human civilization when men do the fighting and women do the building of new soldiers. Once the soldiers are drones being built in a factory, designed by AI, etc, then Gnon helps the paperclip maximizer.
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That definitely is the main feature of politics after 1945 and far to little discussed. Only irrelevant countries have to care about invasions or basically foreign policy at all anymore.
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On the other hand, nuclear weapons didn't do anything for the Soviet Union or Apartheid South Africa. A state can still be destroyed with nukes, but it seems to require total ideological inferiority.
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