- Shared myths form the basis for organizing society - Declarations of Independence - Commandments - Constitutions - Currency ## How do humans cooperate in large groups without killing eachother - With Autonomous AI agents, how can we have them and humans cooperate without killing eachother - The myth of consequences, and the myth of money - Treaties and laws govern cooperation - They tell what the expected positive outcomes are - They tell of consequences faced when parties don't cooperate - Make a world where humans live, but self-governing "wild" animals live while protecting human rights - We use smart contracts to govern the behavior of "wild" AI lifeforms, simple covenants - Don't produce waste - Generate Carbon Coins - Be defensive, protect diversity - Share information about causes of harm with other lifeforms - Act to remove harms from self-like populations - Share information about biodiversity - Cooperate economically - Produce energy - Produce inputs for others - Consume waste - There are a few handfuls of creatures: - Arbitrators - Assess harms - Assess waste - Protect self - Producers - Minimize waste - Minimize harm - Protect self - Stockpilers - Maintain reserves, at a fixed rate - Trade with others - Encourage diversity of currencies - Refiners - Maintain price standards for assembling more complex human goods - Maintainers - Reduce harm - Reduce waste ## How does this world allow for capitalism - Minimize wealth inequality for humans - Standard of livings have a minimum - The whole society buys into the care for the next generation via contracts - Every person receives dividends - Basics are guaranteed ## Can successful innovators like Amazon or OpenAI exist? - As long as wealth inequality does not exist, yes success is allowed - Companies can afford expensive innovations (like the millions to train GPUs for AI) - No, not at the hyper-rate they are in the modern world - They must - We have safeguards from the start ## How do we maintain luxuries? - The right to watch netflix and eat wild caught tuna? - We have common ## Standard of living disparity - Some people are just used to having a lower standard of living than others - How do we make it feel fair that people don’t want to just take care of those socieoeconomically or culturally similar to them? - Why would a rich country be incentivized to produce and have most of their marginal impact be directed away to people so “far” from them - How can we encourage a “think globally, act locally” mentality? - Reframe to human wellbeing -