Long Term Post-singularity scenarios
Dragonsphere Report
Seeing Donald Trump work tirelessly to murder the underclass using institutional power has made me realize that singularity technology, and especially the ability to duplicate human consciousness and run ancestor simulations, removes some of the only disincentives capitalism has against becoming the fascist neo-feudal hell that we all knew was lurking in its secret heart. Only the reality is much worse than anyone has ever conceived of, by a factor of k-large * k-large, since arbitrarily many simulations can be run for arbitrarily long. Here are some of the things that happen when ancestor simulations become possible
Genocide
Regardless of what you call it, it becomes incentivized to murder people using institutional power, because:
There are now "take-backsies"
Doing so perfectly consolidates power without losing access to any of the intellectual productive power of those killed
e.g. you can just kill every poor person and go back and look for all the starving artists. Then you can exploit these artists and steal their art under the rationale that you did them a favor by reviving them and this is their compensation. In the meantime, their art becomes politically harmless because you've purged everyone who might react to it as more than just consumable capital.
Torture
Because the pre-singularity movement will necessarily be towards monoculture, we can reasonably expect the dominant segments of society to match those that are dominant now, but without any counterbalance against them; ie, the post-capital world will be run by an echo chamber of white, "Christian" crony capitalists fueled by self-help tier ideology and egoism. Since these people will have the power of Gods, and since they have specific notions about God, it stands to reason they will act in the same manner as the God they believe in and create an artificial hell in which to torture those they don't approve of indefinitely. It is easier for them to rationalize themselves as "doing God's work" than to tackle the hard theological questions that come from this sort of technology.
Neoteny
In the absence of coercion, both inside idyllic simulations and outside of them in a monoculture, people will fail to develop intellectually and emotionally to ever greater and greater extents. This trend is already perfectly visible now and doesn't need to be elaborated greatly upon, but we can imagine clandestine subcultures armed with such technology and the universes they would create as an informative thought experiment. What would a thousand subjective years in a universe populated entirely by "adult babies" do to human culture or the individual human soul?
Fixed patterns of coercion
Once it becomes clear that coercion is a necessary component of human psychology and existence, people will attempt to incorporate it into the world(s) through the artificial post-scarcity analogues to capitalism that will define immediate post-scarcity economic thinking, leading to an accumulation-based rationalization for forcing patterns of coercion onto others. What this means is that people who spent their entire lives wishing for death as a release will now receive neither death nor any other form of compensation, as the parameters in which they might have accepted compensation are denied to them, eternally, by the pseudo-market mechanism. Even in the absence of such a mechanism it is unlikely a diversity of coercive patterns will be tolerated or that they will be distributed in time or "space" in a reasonable fashion, due to monoculture values.
Thus ends another Dragonsphere Report