Immoral? No, especially if they’re in an open relationship.

A little unusual? Yeah, I’d personally want to talk to the spouse one on one before ever agreeing to something like that. There are billions of people on the planet, surely there is someone that is available for you and not legally committed to somebody else

Do you think isolated communities could come up with reasonable resilience strategies? Can a mutual aid subculture exist for a long time within our current system as well?

More than fair, how much effort do we put in to make sure the ants have a comfortable life? Or even further, the tardigrades? I am on the optimistic side, hoping that a superintelligence holds a benevolent nostalgia/amusement for sentient life if it does indeed come to that.

There’s a chance that asi doesn’t happen and we stall indefinitely on a simple token prediction system, in which case the disruption could be limited to what we’ve seen already?

Ah yes put tariffs on the goods that our allies make, a tried and true solution to the problem of groceries

Long term, more high tech manufacturing will be the result of more technology availability for cheaper, not higher cost chips from overseas

It’s my understanding that Taiwan doesn’t manufacture the chip producing machines anyways, those come from ASML