Franchise Rights

A bundle of shit

• "Concentration of power"

• • Concentration of knowledge; those who get unfiltered feeds of sensory data from the world; facts about algorithms; what are the latest bits of information; ways that Opus 3 works; facts about it's training, how many times people tried to align it.
• • Already in a epistemologically concentrated world; upwards of 50% of the troubles

• "Concentration of residual"

• Division between people whose choices can impact the rest of the future, and those whose choices cannot?
• • Division between those whose choices cannot impact parts of the future, and those who cannot. Inviolate parts of the future.

By binding yourself to a principle, you forestall otherwise inevitable conflict

• Distribution of power as a kind of ignorance / randomization over the future, that makes future arrangement of power more acceptable, ala Rationalist explanations for war

• Distribution of power as the way to ensure that diversity of actual interests remain into the future; if "reflection" cannot guarantee diversity, actual bargaining power might.

• Distribution of power as a reasonable belief

• Being unable to plan very far into the future as a good thing

• One-shot deals about the future vs. postponing deals about the future

• Conditions for being able to plan very far into the future

• • Being smarter than everything else
• • Having fewer unknown unknowns