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Wonder what long-term futures emerge from a survival-of-richest type world of the sort we have today, past say 4 gens. I don’t think it actually works. Wealth is only adaptive in a world with 10x-100x more poor people in it. So you’ll see minimum sustainable poverty society
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Robots make bad substitutes for poor people because so far we haven’t been able to engineer them to want the sort of general life/existence that allows wealth to be created. Utility functions can’t be oppressed in extractive wealth dispensations. Automated poverty is AI-complete
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Wealth is 'progress' integrated over time and compared over the ensemble whereas progress is 'wealth' integrated over the ensemble and compared over time
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