The issue with this is that we can’t fully eliminate competition because in the real world, resources are finite and status is zero-sum.
Resources: Millions of people will probably want to maximize their control over the universe’s (extremely large but finite) resources. So the Authority needs to ration the universe’s resources between millions of people who ask for millions of galaxies each. It seems natural for the Authority to either enforce equality, or maximize utility by giving people with authentic preferences for resources more galaxies (as long as they don’t violate others’ rights).
Status: This seems super messy. Social power and status only exist with your followers’ consent, so people would self-modify to be supercharismatic to attract followers, and the Authority would have to lay ground rules to ensure people don’t mind-hack others. We could potentially get weird trades like resource-seeker A self-modifying to be socially subservient to status-seeker B, in exchange for getting access to B’s resources.
The issue with this is that we can’t fully eliminate competition because in the real world, resources are finite and status is zero-sum.
Resources: Millions of people will probably want to maximize their control over the universe’s (extremely large but finite) resources. So the Authority needs to ration the universe’s resources between millions of people who ask for millions of galaxies each. It seems natural for the Authority to either enforce equality, or maximize utility by giving people with authentic preferences for resources more galaxies (as long as they don’t violate others’ rights).
Status: This seems super messy. Social power and status only exist with your followers’ consent, so people would self-modify to be supercharismatic to attract followers, and the Authority would have to lay ground rules to ensure people don’t mind-hack others. We could potentially get weird trades like resource-seeker A self-modifying to be socially subservient to status-seeker B, in exchange for getting access to B’s resources.