While not similar to bounded AI disasters, warning shots don’t require caring about the other side. True warning shots still make sense as signaling, a standard rung on the ladder of escalation, cheaper than the full cost of violence.
Good point. Change my final sentence to, “A warning shot is made by the entity capable of imposing damaging consequences on you—to alert you and to give you a way to avoid the most damaging of the consequences at its disposal.”
While not similar to bounded AI disasters, warning shots don’t require caring about the other side. True warning shots still make sense as signaling, a standard rung on the ladder of escalation, cheaper than the full cost of violence.
Good point. Change my final sentence to, “A warning shot is made by the entity capable of imposing damaging consequences on you—to alert you and to give you a way to avoid the most damaging of the consequences at its disposal.”