Well, the “why not” boils down to “because there doesn’t seem to be any clear applications of it”. The example in your original post fails because AGIs are not humans and therefore you have no reason to expect it to work. I don’t see any alternative approaches that are promising. By default stuff doesn’t have potential unless there’s something special about it.
Presumably it would not be just like humans enforce norms on each other, because the agents wouldn’t be human.
Yeah, true. I’m asking about the potential of harnessing multipolar traps in general, though.
Well, the “why not” boils down to “because there doesn’t seem to be any clear applications of it”. The example in your original post fails because AGIs are not humans and therefore you have no reason to expect it to work. I don’t see any alternative approaches that are promising. By default stuff doesn’t have potential unless there’s something special about it.