Since reading Better Futures, I've been talking about a 'viatopia MVP' which I think is similar to your thinking here. In addition to this idea of buying breathing room (i.e. some minimal/manageable pause for reflection/coordination) it also seems leveraged to focus on mechanisms for stymieing/blocking the decisions most likely to be entrenching/irreversible e.g. launching von Neumann probes.
Ideally we carve as many winner-take-all scenarios out of the action space as possible.
Might be possible to build these mechanisms unilaterally also and their existence should help coordination, e.g. "Hey why aren't you installing our verified anti AI secret loyalty mechanism, thats very sus."
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Since reading Better Futures, I've been talking about a 'viatopia MVP' which I think is similar to your thinking here. In addition to this idea of buying breathing room (i.e. some minimal/manageable pause for reflection/coordination) it also seems leveraged to focus on mechanisms for stymieing/blocking the decisions most likely to be entrenching/irreversible e.g. launching von Neumann probes.
Ideally we carve as many winner-take-all scenarios out of the action space as possible.
Might be possible to build these mechanisms unilaterally also and their existence should help coordination, e.g. "Hey why aren't you installing our verified anti AI secret loyalty mechanism, thats very sus."