If superweapons and private moral atrocities are possible, the existing power centers would have a collective interest in bargaining to prevent more power centers from emerging.

“if it's true that some of those super weapons are possible and some of these like private moral atrocities are possible then even if you have like eight different power centers it's going to be like in their collective interest to come to some sort of bargain with each other Right. to like prevent more power centers from arising and doing crazy stuff similar to how nuclear non-proliferation is sort of like whatever set of countries have nukes it's like in their collective interest to like stop lots of other countries from getting nukes you know”