Mark Waser wrote:
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The simulator is needing to run large populations over large numbers
of generations multiple times with slightly different assumptions.
As such, it doesn't speak directly to "What is a good strategy for an
advanced AI with lots of resources?", but it provides indications.
And I would argue that I've got a far better, more analogous study
with several large populations over large numbers of generations.
It's called the study of human religion. :-)
...
It's better in the sense of "more clearly analogous", but it's worse
because 1) it's harder to analyze and 2) the results are *MUCH* more
equivocal. I'd argue that religion has caused more general suffering
than it has ameliorated. Probably by several orders of magnitude. But
the "results" are so messy and hard to separate from other simultaneous
causes that this can't be conclusively proven. (And, also, with
sufficient desire to disbelieve, the law of gravity itself could be
thrown into doubt. [That's a paraphrase of somebody else talking about
commercial interests, but the more general statement is correct.])
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