Anyhow good points, sorry for not really engaging with the scale invariance argument—I think it’s definitely plausible. There’s some differences between scales (e.g. law enforcement being harder on larger scales) that certainly help make inter-tribe or inter-nation conflict a trickier local-equilibrium to escape than inter-personal conflict—more generally I’m unsure how much we should expect the cosmos-weighted-for-civilization-as-we’d-recognize-it to be full of civilizations that proactively move towards pareto improvements even when the environment is far away from them, versus civilizations that just sort of stumble around and try different cultural innovations until they hit ones that work just well enough.
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Anyhow good points, sorry for not really engaging with the scale invariance argument—I think it’s definitely plausible. There’s some differences between scales (e.g. law enforcement being harder on larger scales) that certainly help make inter-tribe or inter-nation conflict a trickier local-equilibrium to escape than inter-personal conflict—more generally I’m unsure how much we should expect the cosmos-weighted-for-civilization-as-we’d-recognize-it to be full of civilizations that proactively move towards pareto improvements even when the environment is far away from them, versus civilizations that just sort of stumble around and try different cultural innovations until they hit ones that work just well enough.