Here are two other potentially serious failures of strategy stealing[1]:
Vacuum decay might allow for agents who control small amounts of resources to destory everything if there isn’t relevant policing/prevention everywhere.
There might be a race to launch space probes fast and this could differentially disadvantage people who want to reflect more or make it harder to get mitigations in place everywhere (for vacuum decay or locusts). (This is an important case of “Maybe agents that are just less reflective or cautious have a competitive advantage”.)
Here are two other potentially serious failures of strategy stealing[1]:
Vacuum decay might allow for agents who control small amounts of resources to destory everything if there isn’t relevant policing/prevention everywhere.
There might be a race to launch space probes fast and this could differentially disadvantage people who want to reflect more or make it harder to get mitigations in place everywhere (for vacuum decay or locusts). (This is an important case of “Maybe agents that are just less reflective or cautious have a competitive advantage”.)
which IMO seem comparable to locust like value systems in terms of how much value they destroy unless you have serious mitigations.