Is There a Lever on Choice?

The moment we actually deploy a type of asymmetric technology, then it gets reverse engineered and utilized for all purposes that are incentivized by all agents. And so this is the multipolar trap where each agent doing the thing that seems like it provides leads to a system disposition that is worse for the system as a whole over the long term. A tragedy of the commons and arms race are all examples of this. With exponential tech, we have an exponential race to the bottom type scenario.