Free competition among copyable or fast-reproducing minds tends towards subsistence: whatever uses resources most efficiently comes to make up most activity (Hanson). The book replies that subsistence need not mean suffering, not that the race can be avoided without regulation.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  we are racing for competitive equilibria which without any regulation amounts to subsistence competitive equilibria

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  What pushes most activity towards subsistence is the evolutionary logic that whatever activity uses resources more efficiently becomes most of the activity to subsist on.

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