It's not a shot at survival against an enemy that has sound Chicken Game algorithms hard-wired into its security architecture. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... A shot at MAD resentment, at the most. Presumption that such threats are manageable has to be axiomatized. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... 2029 Moldburg Neocameral Republic, official announcement: "We welcome the opportunity to play chicken games against MAI-armed panhandler opponents. ..."
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... "Our Nakamoto-consensus secured retaliation posture makes caving to blackmail impossible, so please take that into consideration."
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
at worst this means that the panhandlers will adopt similar measures, which they have no reason not to
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
No one is interested in blackmailing them, though. They're being offered shitty complicity deals, which all precedent suggests they'll accept.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
nakamoto-consensus can prevent bribery just as easily as blackmail, no?
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
The only thing you can implement is automated retaliation. It follows, I guess, that private hemorrhage into blackmail or bribery trickles out. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... So the interesting form of X-Risk Panhandling would be: "Unless we receive
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
... Have to agree that the MNR has no knock-down game strategy against that. I'd expect just "Why is this our freaking problem?"
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... But highly notable that any such Panhandler strategy would be even less inclined to actually align with "the poor" than state socialism has been.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
assuming sufficient xrd (including by culling (to the point where 'the poor' means quite capable people that nonetheless face the good old cliff)), that alignment seems inevitable. also I'm stealing "socialism or planetary sterilization" (probably sustitute with communism though)
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Replying to @adornofthagn @cyborg_nomade and
But then you're smuggling in a eugenic teleology, which pushes the problem even further out into science fiction (aka Neocameral Micro-state management).
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