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Comparative advantage stops governing once the power imbalance is large enough: groups then switch into seeking to dominate instead of trading.
Drawn from what Michael Nielsen said
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What Michael Nielsen actually said
- Michael Nielsen Physicist, writer and researcher
and part of it is just power, I think. Like, once there's a sufficiently large power imbalance, um, very often, not always, but very often groups of people seem to to sort of shift into this other mode where they just seek to dominate.
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Watch from 1:09:30 plays here↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com
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