They might be worried that their own philosophical approach is wrong but too attractive once discovered, or creates a blind spot that makes it impossible to spot the actually correct approach. The division of western philosophy into analytical and continental traditions, who are mutually unable to appreciate each other’s work, seems to be an instance of this. They might think that letting other philosophical traditions independently run to their logical conclusions, and then conversing/debating, is one way to try to make real progress.
Perhaps in most of the simulations, they help by sharing what they’ve learned. giving brain enhancements, etc, but those ones quickly reach philosophical dead ends, so we find ourselves in one of the ones which doesn’t get help and takes longer doing exploration.
(This seems more plausible to me than using the simulations for “mapping the spectrum of rival resource‑grabbers” since I think we’re not smart enough to come up with novel ASIs that they haven’t already seen or thought of.)
They might be worried that their own philosophical approach is wrong but too attractive once discovered, or creates a blind spot that makes it impossible to spot the actually correct approach. The division of western philosophy into analytical and continental traditions, who are mutually unable to appreciate each other’s work, seems to be an instance of this. They might think that letting other philosophical traditions independently run to their logical conclusions, and then conversing/debating, is one way to try to make real progress.
Perhaps in most of the simulations, they help by sharing what they’ve learned. giving brain enhancements, etc, but those ones quickly reach philosophical dead ends, so we find ourselves in one of the ones which doesn’t get help and takes longer doing exploration.
(This seems more plausible to me than using the simulations for “mapping the spectrum of rival resource‑grabbers” since I think we’re not smart enough to come up with novel ASIs that they haven’t already seen or thought of.)