On occasion of the 2024 review, I reread my post and I still endorse it.
The post is conceptual. Its aim is to explain that the theory of comparative advantage only predicts mutual benefits of trade if certain conditions are fulfilled. They are likely not fulfilled in the case of interacting with an ASI. In particular, you do not have to trade with people (i.e., compensate them) if you can just force them to produce what you want, or if you can just take away their resources. Therefore, it is not justified to believe that the existence of an ASI is fine because people could trade with it.
A year later, I still find the idea of humans trading with an ASI rather strange.
On occasion of the 2024 review, I reread my post and I still endorse it.
The post is conceptual. Its aim is to explain that the theory of comparative advantage only predicts mutual benefits of trade if certain conditions are fulfilled. They are likely not fulfilled in the case of interacting with an ASI. In particular, you do not have to trade with people (i.e., compensate them) if you can just force them to produce what you want, or if you can just take away their resources. Therefore, it is not justified to believe that the existence of an ASI is fine because people could trade with it.
A year later, I still find the idea of humans trading with an ASI rather strange.