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concept:malthusian-population-dynamics-for-digital-mindsMalthusian Population Dynamics for Digital Minds
The scenario where digital mind production continues until wages equal marginal costs, driving wages to machine subsistence levels
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- Concrete illustration of how standard welfare policies fail in the presence of super-beneficiaries
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- The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds
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- The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
- Extends Parfit's argument beyond population size to multiple dimensions
- Establishes the reproductive capacity dimension of super-beneficiary status
- Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
- Asserts that the time is ripe for formal models.
- Addresses the procedural ethics of creating digital minds disposed to protect human interests
- One of two scaling hypotheses examined for the mind-scale dimension
- Grounds the subjective speed dimension of super-beneficiary status