[ExI] How new AI economics might change our systems

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 21/09/2026 21:06, Keith Henson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 1:57 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>> I'm starting to think that this 'alignment with humanity' idea is a red herring. As spike says, humanity is not aligned with itself, so how can anything else be?


> Humans became the ultimate top predator. The only way top predators can keep their population from growing too large for the environment they live in is to kill each other (consider lions).


I don't think this can be true, or at least it's not the only reason, when humans are involved.

It's certainly not the reason for the reversal in global population growth we're seeing now. That's not happening because we're all murdering each other.

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Ben