In case it's not obvious: I think the "long reflection" is an excellent, super important concept, and I'm delighted that it's become a core EA discussion topic (thanks eg to Toby Ord).
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Once a single society absorbs all the others then it is free to spin into madness as status maximizers short circuit all the evolved systems for keeping them out (and there's no threat of external system destruction to keep them under control).
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Curtis Yarvin had an interesting proposal on his substack that when an orbital power emerges it should allow unrestricted, constant pre-industrial warfare (no chemical explosives, no compressed gasses).
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