[ExI] Mono or Poly?

[efc at disroot.org]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 10:51, Jason Resch via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> Using the example of past systems, (with which we have some experience), consider:
>> Which of the following systems are preferred, and what about the preferred option makes it a better than the alternative?
>>
>> - dictatorships vs. democracies
>> - centralized systems vs. distributed systems
>> - monocrops vs. biodiversity
>> - central banks vs. blockchains
>> - monopolies vs. markets
>>
>> Then consider how many of those advantages and disadvantages carry over and apply to:
>> - AI singletons vs. AI communities
>>
>> The question is then: "Do we have the ability to engineer one outcome vs. the other?"
>>
>> Jason
>> _______________________________________________
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>
> While one or the other may be a preferred option, options are a human problem.
> In human history, where these options exist, the result is almost
> always terrible conflicts where one option tries to destroy the other
> option.
> The fault lies lies in human evolutionary history.

Is that really true? Is destroying dictatorships worse than lettingthem 
thrive in the long run? What about biodiversity having a conflict with 
monocrops?

Could you please elaborate a bit to allow me to better understand your 
point?

> BillK
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