This is pretty close, but a more central crux is something like: Does a system fractally slip towards power-seeking across all parameters left free.[1]
Even if it’s very hard to screw the world over at a given power level, if each AI/system/Kami has a ratcheting internal selection pressure towards being more dominated by power-seeking subsystems, eventually the world gets screwed.
The crux you listed is important for how fast the world is destroyed without a singleton, but not really relevant for whether it is destroyed without a singleton.
Non-free parameters are ones pinned down by formal/well-defined things held in place by optimization, or by stronger systems or meta-systems enforcing properties to be maintained by a system effectively.
This is pretty close, but a more central crux is something like: Does a system fractally slip towards power-seeking across all parameters left free.[1]
Even if it’s very hard to screw the world over at a given power level, if each AI/system/Kami has a ratcheting internal selection pressure towards being more dominated by power-seeking subsystems, eventually the world gets screwed.
The crux you listed is important for how fast the world is destroyed without a singleton, but not really relevant for whether it is destroyed without a singleton.
Non-free parameters are ones pinned down by formal/well-defined things held in place by optimization, or by stronger systems or meta-systems enforcing properties to be maintained by a system effectively.