This sort of superexponential growth vastly increases the amount of energy in the system and it seems to me that this amount of energy could very easily be enough to overcome the activation energy required to split groups (eg, countries) that are generally seen as stable.
If power/wealth becomes much more unevenly distributed within the AGI-owning group (top 1% currently at 67% of total wealth in USA, maybe ~20% of income?), why would they continue to support the rest of the group? Or, why exactly that group and not some other arbitrary group of their choosing? The government enforces/maintains the group boundary. What gives the government power to oppose the elites? The population. If the population is relatively poor, how can they maintain control of the government, and where would its power come from?
If the government cannot enforce the group boundary, decreasing the size of the group can greatly improve the group’s ability to prevent diffusion, and can easily make coordination/shared ideology much stronger.
Ideology seems like it could play major role if groups can be formed/broken at will by elites, and I don’t see why democratic/nationalistic ideologies would be favored in this case.
Great post.
This sort of superexponential growth vastly increases the amount of energy in the system and it seems to me that this amount of energy could very easily be enough to overcome the activation energy required to split groups (eg, countries) that are generally seen as stable.
If power/wealth becomes much more unevenly distributed within the AGI-owning group (top 1% currently at 67% of total wealth in USA, maybe ~20% of income?), why would they continue to support the rest of the group? Or, why exactly that group and not some other arbitrary group of their choosing? The government enforces/maintains the group boundary. What gives the government power to oppose the elites? The population. If the population is relatively poor, how can they maintain control of the government, and where would its power come from?
If the government cannot enforce the group boundary, decreasing the size of the group can greatly improve the group’s ability to prevent diffusion, and can easily make coordination/shared ideology much stronger.
Ideology seems like it could play major role if groups can be formed/broken at will by elites, and I don’t see why democratic/nationalistic ideologies would be favored in this case.