Gaming the Future raises its own objection, that promoting specific architectures may lock in a future, and answers it by setting initial conditions while leaving outcomes open to future knowledge: later intelligences should design their own arrangements, not be bottlenecked by today's designers.

Evidence 3 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  Insofar as this book attempts to provide an alternative to locked-in futures, are we making the same mistake by promoting specific architectures?

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  We choose an arrangement that sets initial conditions, leaving the outcome adaptive to future knowledge.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  But ultimately, future intelligences will design their own cooperative arrangements. These should not be bottlenecked by human designers.

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