it’s plausible that you literally boil the oceans due to extreme amounts of waste heat from industry (e.g. with energy from fusion).
I think this proposal would probably be unpopular and largely seen as unnecessary. As you allude to, it seems likely to me that society could devise a compromise solution where we grow wealth adequately without giant undesirable environmental effects. To some extent, this follows pretty directly from the points I made about “compromise, trade and law” above. I think it simply makes more sense to model AIs as working within a system of legal institutions that largely inherit stuff from our current systems, and open to compromise with beings who have different intrinsic interests.
I think this proposal would probably be unpopular and largely seen as unnecessary. As you allude to, it seems likely to me that society could devise a compromise solution where we grow wealth adequately without giant undesirable environmental effects. To some extent, this follows pretty directly from the points I made about “compromise, trade and law” above. I think it simply makes more sense to model AIs as working within a system of legal institutions that largely inherit stuff from our current systems, and open to compromise with beings who have different intrinsic interests.