One potential issue with “non-EA ideologies don’t even care about stars” is that in biological humans, ideologies don’t get transmitted perfectly across generations.
It might matter (a lot) whether [the descendent of the humans currently subscribing to “non-EA ideologies” who end up caring about stars] feel trapped in an “unfair deal”.
The above problem might be mitigated by allowing migration between the two zones (as long as the rules of the zones are respected). (ie the children of the star-dwellers who want to come back can do so unless they would break the invariants that allow earth-dwellers to be happy with perhaps some extra leeway/accommodation beyond what is allowed for native earth-dwellers and the children of earth-dwellers who want to start their own colony have some room to do so, reserved in the contract)
one potential source of other people’s disagreement is the following intuition: “surely once the star-dwellers expand, they will use their overwhelming power to conquer the earth.” Related to this intuition is the fact that expansion which starts out exponential will eventually be bounded by cubic growth (and eventually quadratic, due to gravitational effects, etc...) Basically, a deal is struck now in conditions of plenty, but eventually resources will grow scarce and the balance of power will decay to nothing by then.
One potential issue with “non-EA ideologies don’t even care about stars” is that in biological humans, ideologies don’t get transmitted perfectly across generations.
It might matter (a lot) whether [the descendent of the humans currently subscribing to “non-EA ideologies” who end up caring about stars] feel trapped in an “unfair deal”.
The above problem might be mitigated by allowing migration between the two zones (as long as the rules of the zones are respected). (ie the children of the star-dwellers who want to come back can do so unless they would break the invariants that allow earth-dwellers to be happy with perhaps some extra leeway/accommodation beyond what is allowed for native earth-dwellers and the children of earth-dwellers who want to start their own colony have some room to do so, reserved in the contract)
one potential source of other people’s disagreement is the following intuition: “surely once the star-dwellers expand, they will use their overwhelming power to conquer the earth.” Related to this intuition is the fact that expansion which starts out exponential will eventually be bounded by cubic growth (and eventually quadratic, due to gravitational effects, etc...) Basically, a deal is struck now in conditions of plenty, but eventually resources will grow scarce and the balance of power will decay to nothing by then.