Good point. Now that you bring this up, I vaguely remember a Reddit AMA where an evolutionary biologist made the (obvious in hindsight, but never occurred to me at the time) claim that with multilevel selection, altruism on one level is often means defecting on a higher (or lower) level. Which probably unconsciously inspired this post!
As for making it top level, I originally wanted to include a bunch of thoughts on the unilateralist’s curse as a post, but then I realized that I’m a one-trick pony in this domain...hard to think of novel/useful things that Bostrom et. al hasn’t already covered!
Good point. Now that you bring this up, I vaguely remember a Reddit AMA where an evolutionary biologist made the (obvious in hindsight, but never occurred to me at the time) claim that with multilevel selection, altruism on one level is often means defecting on a higher (or lower) level. Which probably unconsciously inspired this post!
As for making it top level, I originally wanted to include a bunch of thoughts on the unilateralist’s curse as a post, but then I realized that I’m a one-trick pony in this domain...hard to think of novel/useful things that Bostrom et. al hasn’t already covered!