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Stuart Armstrong & Robin Hanson: Iterate The Game | Gaming the Future Chapter 10

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Is There a Big Choice Between Expansion or Survival?

i personally am utterly terrified by that future, not because they be aliens, but because of all the massd death and complete lack of choice. i don't think that humanity or any alien entity is going to stay confined to a solar system. Even if you've centralized everything, it is still much, much better to grab the universe than to let potential other aliens grab the universe. The game theory is not even affection. You can be nice with all the aliens that you encounter, but there's no disadvantage to grabbing the universe first. That is what i expect will happen with humanity, or humanity's descendants.

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