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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Multipolar Trap
The term multipolar trap refers to a coordination failure of this type where each agent pursuing their own near term rational interest creates a situation that moves the entire global situation long term to a suboptimal equilibrium for everybody, right? There's a lot of work in various fields of social science on social traps. You're not necessarily in the situation where everyone is racing to do it faster than the other person to destroy it but you have a resource per capita consumption growth and a total population growth sets that the environment can't deal with it.
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