"Disagreeing about the relative values of labor was disastrous for us during industrialization. If you have solutions to the obvious pitfalls those would be interesting."

Ailor is fairly certain that the Second Republic is either the most or least technologically advanced delegate here, give or take the Ranalites. The Ailori delegation has gone out of its way not to flash tech. Their gear avoids synthetic and advanced materials as much as possible. Still, displaying when they're communicating necessitated displaying decks which in turn meant displaying at least the transistor. Either way, the course of action is the same. If there had been another delegate in the Current Era or a Future Era Ailor would want their help avoiding skippable-intermediate-upgrades and predictable pitfalls. It's Ailor's duty to help.

"If the main difficulty is addiction instead of data aggregation and processing then there is an electronic equivalent to closing the library. You can use a productivity manager to manage when, how much, and under which conditions you have access to data. Just be careful tuning it. Overwork was a problem on Ailor before we had those, and now it's one of the main remaining known known problems."

It's unsurprising to Ailor that capitalists are a difference, that was a defining feature of the Previous Era. It's more surprising that there's not tribal, feudal, or imperial delegates. (Ailor will not mention the lack of Future Era delegates, because they still have even odds on one of the delegations being Future Era and testing us.) Capitalists at an advanced level of technology is surprising and somewhat worrying. That being said, Gremirians are at least claiming outcomes that are much better than expected for capitalists. 

"The sorts of values that it might be better to be different," the Head of State offers, "suggest confusion between terminal and instrumental values."

This sure is the way to model social development. Could you elaborate on your theory of eras? Our Church, in fact, believes it knows best what values ​​a person should pursue, but it's not so optimistic as to assume that because it's true, everyone will accept it and be able to follow it. So your historical determinism would be a great relief in this regard.

The ego is too strongly wired into us biologically, and it's easier to replace us with another species than to achieve universal enlightenment as we are. Therefore, we use an ego-driven economic model and, within its framework, sponsor desired existential outcomes. Therefore, the Double Gremirians/Singularity will absorb those who wanted to be absorbed and reward those who wanted to be rewarded, with efforts to persuade people to change their values ​​proportional to the initial drive to change.

If you've allowing the possibility of enlightenment, they'll attempt to enlighten you, in proportion to this openness, and you'll disappear, your resources being channeled into pure bliss. If you feel alienated from the enlightened version of yourself and consider the fulfillment of your enlightened desires in exchange for the resources provided by your selfish self a betrayal, you'll remain in the personal "hell" of consciousness-as-a-function-in-time, with your first-order desires fulfilled, even if it's against your own interests, up to your negentropy budget. You can bring others to this hell, but you pay for them. That's why cryonics is the only area of ​​charity that is disproportionately funded by egoists.

"Disagreeing about the relative values of labor was disastrous for us during industrialization" sure is a statement. Laborers and industries that can't keep up with the amount of people who want to pay for their services charge increasing amounts until people stop asking or enough new laborers join the industry to underbid their competitors, take their business, and drive down prices.

In a good year, the amount of labor and land you put into farming correlates strongly with the amount of food that comes out of it. Incremental improvements get eaten by incremental population growth, but eventually there's a breakthrough that doubles yields. The same land and labour producing yields that are twice as large means that half that labor can work on non-farming endeavours. A popular endeavor is finding other ways to save even more time or labor. People hit on the idea of mass production as a timesaver, which isn't great for the artisan class whose work is now devalued, but the pie is growing big enough to help them through the transitional period or learning new skills. 

Nah, that doesn't seem like it'd be relevant to industrialization and relative wages.

Hm. Pity that I'm a non-diagetic thought you're having instead of being present to mention that.

"People who are sufficiently self disciplined to use the productivity manager tend to just accumulate external responsibilities and set alarms about them.

I suppose we could consider importing Adventurers who want to exchange care work for the opportunity to see our planet and society, but Ferek's serious people in particular are quite worried about a second sapient species going feral and outcompeting us.

Even if you send us sterile Adventurers someone is likely to be irresponsible enough to work on reversing that if requested."

In many ways Kastakia is a tribal society, or partly feudal with the hospital ships being the feudal lords. The tribes are unusually cooperative but still have no real overarching governance. The few coordination problems they have are still mostly mediated by individual violence. 

Eras are just a colloquial description of times when the dominant mode of life and organizing society was a certain way. Tribal people were very different than early agriculture and so on. 

That's really cool that you were able to transition so cleanly! It wasn't clean for us at all. At some point, some people figured out that they could get ahead by paying a small number of people to shoot laborers who wanted pesky things like "pay" instead of just paying the laborers directly. They were pretty intractable with that, especially since they had people with guns and propaganda and a lot of incentives to keep things like they were. Ailor ended up having to shoot the slave holders to free the slaves. Then the slavers kept trying to cheat the whole "no slave" thing over and over again until there was a world war. That's a big reason Ailor is very much sold on the Blue Book. Although it sounds like Gremir somehow has something very much like the Blue Book through some indirect means.

"A trick with the productivity manager is to have two or three people who have to unlock it, so that it's less impulsive. That might be relying on Ailori being more sociable in certain ways though. 

The upside if you want to import people for Ailor include that we're pretty certain that we can generate more habitation than we consume. Many of us are also familiar with caregiving for flighted sapients, in the BDSM context or otherwise. The best of us are very invested in being Friendly, and we wouldn't let the rest of us cause issues without feeling responsible for fixing them.

It might not be best practices to just take our word for it though. Maybe you should send an Adventuring party or three over to Ailor? I'm sure you'll have your pick of locals for guides and companionship."