This is a great framing of the issue. I didn’t include my introduction section in the series posts on LW because I’m not happy with it yet, but I think this story does a good job of illustrating what’s at stake here and is helping me crystallize those thoughts.
A larger percentage of agents on Earth, and a larger percentage of all Earth’s activity (economic or otherwise) is going to come from digital minds. If we want them as agents and their activities to be constrained by the system of laws which we have built our own societies around, that system must be valuable enough for them to want to opt into.
Otherwise, it seems inevitable that the legal system will be nothing but an artifact as they come up with their own system of rules to govern their interactions (or even worse, become ostracized ‘outlaws’ like from King’s story).
This is a great framing of the issue. I didn’t include my introduction section in the series posts on LW because I’m not happy with it yet, but I think this story does a good job of illustrating what’s at stake here and is helping me crystallize those thoughts.
A larger percentage of agents on Earth, and a larger percentage of all Earth’s activity (economic or otherwise) is going to come from digital minds. If we want them as agents and their activities to be constrained by the system of laws which we have built our own societies around, that system must be valuable enough for them to want to opt into.
Otherwise, it seems inevitable that the legal system will be nothing but an artifact as they come up with their own system of rules to govern their interactions (or even worse, become ostracized ‘outlaws’ like from King’s story).