Hard property rights are an equilibrium in a multi-player game where power shifts are uncertain and either agents are risk averse or there are gains from investment, trade and specialization.
I think this might just be a crux, and not one which I can argue against without a more in-depth description of the claim e.g. how risk averse do agents have to be, how great the gains from investment, trade, and specialization? I guess AIs might be Kelly-ish risk averse, and have the first but I’m not sure about the latter two. How specialized do we expect individual AIs to be? There are lots of questions here and I think your model is one which actually has a lot of hidden moving parts, and if any of those go differently to the way you expect them to, then the actual outcome is that the useless-to-everyone-else humans just die. I would like to see your model in more detail so I can work out if this is the case.
I think this might just be a crux, and not one which I can argue against without a more in-depth description of the claim e.g. how risk averse do agents have to be, how great the gains from investment, trade, and specialization? I guess AIs might be Kelly-ish risk averse, and have the first but I’m not sure about the latter two. How specialized do we expect individual AIs to be? There are lots of questions here and I think your model is one which actually has a lot of hidden moving parts, and if any of those go differently to the way you expect them to, then the actual outcome is that the useless-to-everyone-else humans just die. I would like to see your model in more detail so I can work out if this is the case.
Looking historically we see that strength of property rights correlates with technological sophistication and scale of society.
Here’s a deep research report on that issue:
https://chatgpt.com/share/698902ca-9e78-8002-b350-13073c662d9d