Very interesting, thank you. I had no idea there was a Low German speaking minority in Canada, of all places.
I listened to a snippet of Plaudietsch and found out the dialect is quite different from the Lower German still spoken around where I live (Northwestern Germany). That got me thinking: it would take a lot of effort for someone to learn an exotic language like this, so maybe it's more feasible to rally some of the Mennonites who like the idea of vaccines to become ambassadors for their own wider communities? They would already be familiar with the communication channels.
I feel like at the heart of counterarguments to solutions that resemble those found in human history -- cooperative / multipolar / non-inner alignment --, there is a fallacy of comparing time scales but not shifting perspective to the new subjects of post-human history, AIs. It'll all go too fast for us, that's for sure -- but does that imply that one rogue AI will win everything? The speed of decision making will increase significantly, after all, possibly more than the speed of weapon development. The grounds for decision making will become more abstract...
In December of 1994, Ukraine notoriously surrendered its nuclear arsenal* under the Budapest Memorandum, in exchange for two pinky promises: a non-aggression pact with Russia and security assurances by the US (and other, less powerful states).
We're in the fifth year of the full-scale invasion, and the lesson the whole world has learned by now is: guarantees by world powers are worthless unless you have nukes, and threats by world powers are worthless if you do (see North Korea). This is a serious deterioration compared to the geopolitical climate in the 90... (read more)