They could have economic or military arms races with each other; there’s no limit to how expensive or destructive an arms race can get. Or they could want to remake the world to fit their ideology or religion; there’s no limit to how expensive or destructive a world-remaking project can get.
I feel these are very specific and different scenarios from a “vanilla” economic singularity. When people go “The economy will double every month!”, they don’t add “Because the solar system will be plastered with ever larger statues of the great leader”. I am aware that this kind of exponential growth would be technologically possible, and it’s also not difficult to come up with scenarios in which it would actually happen, I just don’t see how that is the normal extension of current economics.
They could have economic or military arms races with each other; there’s no limit to how expensive or destructive an arms race can get. Or they could want to remake the world to fit their ideology or religion; there’s no limit to how expensive or destructive a world-remaking project can get.
I feel these are very specific and different scenarios from a “vanilla” economic singularity. When people go “The economy will double every month!”, they don’t add “Because the solar system will be plastered with ever larger statues of the great leader”. I am aware that this kind of exponential growth would be technologically possible, and it’s also not difficult to come up with scenarios in which it would actually happen, I just don’t see how that is the normal extension of current economics.