It’s not necessarily going to be seen as a problem, it would be seen as an unavoidable inefficiency.
Note, I don’t expect the fight to play out. It’s a question about what sorts of tensions the conflict resolution processes reflect. This is explained in the question body.
The Future has way too much freedom to design minds for that inefficiency to be unavoidable. “Who would win a fight?” is completely irrelevant to who is right, why should they pay attention to it? They could just, say, concatenate their memories and let the resulting mind decide. If that depends on the order, the programmer needs to be fired.
To be fair, your note guessed correctly that I had misread your question’s last two paragraphs, and I’m overly attached to my initial response. But my reasoning holds up: Cryptography is hard because the attacker moves last, mind design is easy because nature doesn’t get to respond to our design. The reason we’d get conflict is nostalgia, much like Star Trek’s Federation judged an Enterprise manned by holograms to be like Disneyland without children.
Nope! If we’re optimizing the merger, we’d see that problem coming and install whatever transhumanism is necessary to avert this.
It’s not necessarily going to be seen as a problem, it would be seen as an unavoidable inefficiency.
Note, I don’t expect the fight to play out. It’s a question about what sorts of tensions the conflict resolution processes reflect. This is explained in the question body.
The Future has way too much freedom to design minds for that inefficiency to be unavoidable. “Who would win a fight?” is completely irrelevant to who is right, why should they pay attention to it? They could just, say, concatenate their memories and let the resulting mind decide. If that depends on the order, the programmer needs to be fired.
To be fair, your note guessed correctly that I had misread your question’s last two paragraphs, and I’m overly attached to my initial response. But my reasoning holds up: Cryptography is hard because the attacker moves last, mind design is easy because nature doesn’t get to respond to our design. The reason we’d get conflict is nostalgia, much like Star Trek’s Federation judged an Enterprise manned by holograms to be like Disneyland without children.