What "coherent, long-term planning agents" means, and what is possible with these agents, is not clear to me. How would they overcome lack of access to knowledge, as was highlighted by F.A. Hayek in "The Use of Knowledge in Society"? What actions would they plan? How would their planning come to replace humans' actions? (Achieving control over some sectors of battlefields would only be controlling destruction, of course, it would not be controlling creation.)
Some discussion is needed that recognizes and takes into account differences among governance structures. What seems the most relevant to me are these cases: (1) totalitarian governments, (2) somewhat-free governments, (3) transnational corporations, (4) decentralized initiatives. This is a new kind of competition, but the results will be like with major wars: Resilient-enough groups will survive the first wave or new groups will re-form later, and ultimately the competition will be won by the group that outproduces the others. In each successive era, the group that outproduces the others will be the group that leaves people the freest.
What "coherent, long-term planning agents" means, and what is possible with these agents, is not clear to me. How would they overcome lack of access to knowledge, as was highlighted by F.A. Hayek in "The Use of Knowledge in Society"? What actions would they plan? How would their planning come to replace humans' actions? (Achieving control over some sectors of battlefields would only be controlling destruction, of course, it would not be controlling creation.)
Some discussion is needed that recognizes and takes into account differences among governance structures. What seems the most relevant to me are these cases: (1) totalitarian governments, (2) somewhat-free governments, (3) transnational corporations, (4) decentralized initiatives. This is a new kind of competition, but the results will be like with major wars: Resilient-enough groups will survive the first wave or new groups will re-form later, and ultimately the competition will be won by the group that outproduces the others. In each successive era, the group that outproduces the others will be the group that leaves people the freest.