This is an interesting question. One answer is the Iain Banks answer: the AI stops people from beating each other with rocks, but doesn't enforce property rights. If I build structures and you tear them down, oh well.https://twitter.com/MorganColeBooks/status/1120745314300960769 …
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3/ I don't think reaching 2,000,000 times survival level will make us any less enamored with property. Indeed, the richer we get, the more things we turn into property! As to "how do we divide it up?", my answer is "read Nozick".
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4/ Specifically, the Wilt Chamberlain story. At time t=n, there is already a division of property. As Moldbug said in his "leaving Tlon" blog post, property is arbitrary and unfair - and that's the POINT. We accept the division at time t=n, and we constrain >>
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5/ further transactions to be mutually beneficial / consenting. At n+1, things are at least as just as they were at n, perhaps more so. Never less so. If the AI or some human wants to preserve property for AN IMPORTANT PURPOSE, well... he just does so.
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6/ That which is unowned is always despoiled. That which is owned is not. Witness the tragedy of the commons, and how the Enclosure Acts benefited the environment / increased total utility.
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I always wanted to read a Culture book about a mutiny, for just this reason. Not murder -- the mutineers would just eject the ship brain into space.
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Banks, like Alan Moore, requires magic to make their cherished political systems viable.
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