David Duvenaud
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Just due to like weird physics things like the speed of light, it probably will.
I can't imagine there being all that much meaningful coordination between galaxies ever and probably not even between solar systems.
So it really probably depends on the level.
And I guess I haven't thought much about this.
Yeah, post-AGI civilizational equilibria, colon, are there any good ones?
Yeah.
How did it go?
Are there any good ones?
I mean, I think it went really well.
I mean, we were all a bit amateurs.
Well, actually, Jan has organized lots of workshops, but we had like a lot of my favorite, impressive, fun people to talk to.
In terms of are there good futures or stable equilibrium that we would like, I feel like we had speakers that were able to lay out the main cases.
Like Joe Carl Smith, Richard Noe came and talked about life in living in an extremely unequal world and making the case that most of our sort of like intuitions and moral norms are...
formed in this sort of very peer-to-peer world that we've lived in as humans, but it's actually going to look more like parent-child relationships or animal-human relationships.
And we have to adapt our sort of moral and social intuitions more for this kind of world.
I guess I would say there was no slam dunks.
There was sort of, to me, the beginnings of a field.
I mean, the coolest thing that happened, there was two cool things that happened, I think, because of this conference in particular.
So one was
we invited one political science student who worked with Alain Defoe to talk about how competition between states in theory and in practice puts constraints on how much welfare they can spend on their citizens.