If everyone in our universe doing acausal trade coordinates, we can sell “cosmic real estate” for monopoly prices
Let’s assume that there are many different universes (or Everett branches) that acausally trade.
Some traders won’t about “resources in our civ’s future lightcone” linearly. As a toy example, the leader of a distant alien civilisation might want to get a statue of themselves in as many different other universes as possible.
If many different actors in our universe do acausal trade, and compete with each other to trade with the alien leader, then they’d bid down the price of building that statue. Whereas if they all band together, they could hold out for a much higher price. So it could be in our collective interests to coordinate and “price fix”.
This is an example of a civilisation-wide public good that could be important long into the future.
If everyone in our universe doing acausal trade coordinates, we can sell “cosmic real estate” for monopoly prices
Let’s assume that there are many different universes (or Everett branches) that acausally trade.
Some traders won’t about “resources in our civ’s future lightcone” linearly. As a toy example, the leader of a distant alien civilisation might want to get a statue of themselves in as many different other universes as possible.
If many different actors in our universe do acausal trade, and compete with each other to trade with the alien leader, then they’d bid down the price of building that statue. Whereas if they all band together, they could hold out for a much higher price. So it could be in our collective interests to coordinate and “price fix”.
This is an example of a civilisation-wide public good that could be important long into the future.
i notice a lot of disagree votes here—would appreciate an explanation as to why