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Rule by Strategy

1 points by redredyupdy ↗ HN
Hi,

I'm trying to find out if there has been any research into rule by strategy.

Now that we can encode a strategy into a computer it should be possible for us to explore strategic systems that are larger than one person's thoughts.

This could help us with some thorny problems like climate change and AI risk.

I'm using the definition of strategy from this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYlGRnC7J8

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philiphodgen
Thank you for the link to the YouTube video. There are some thought-provoking (and behavior-changing) ideas in those 9 minutes.

My interpretation is that “strategy” as he defines it is an exercise in human whimsy. “I choose to play in this playing field.” “My theory for why I can achieve the objective — which is inherently outside my control — is xyz.” In other words, strategy is first a moment of creation. Ex nihilo.

After selecting a strategy the AI berserkers* take over and relentlessly and pitilessly drive you forward to Total World Domination.

So I guess what I’m saying is: I don’t understand how AI participates in that “In the beginning . . . “ creation of a strategy. Unless, of course, AI is God.

What am I not seeing?

* when I read all of the breathless doomer “AI is going to eat babies” articles online I am reminded of Fred Saberhagen’s Berserker series.