I broadly agree with this. The point of my post was to convey intuitions for why “a world of [digital people] will be so different from modern nations states just as modern states are from chimps,” not to claim that the long-run future will be just as described in Age of Em. I do think despite the likely radical unfamiliarity of such a world, there are properties we can say today it’s pretty likely to have, such as the potential for lock-in and space colonization.
I broadly agree with this. The point of my post was to convey intuitions for why “a world of [digital people] will be so different from modern nations states just as modern states are from chimps,” not to claim that the long-run future will be just as described in Age of Em. I do think despite the likely radical unfamiliarity of such a world, there are properties we can say today it’s pretty likely to have, such as the potential for lock-in and space colonization.