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Good governance at it's very core is the right people at the helm of affairs.

Getting the right people is a really hard task, one really has to wade through several thousand people to find that needle in a haystack.

Defining what is 'right', is like defining what a Unicorn is i.e almost surreal.

>how could you design governance for a high-end nursing home so that the facility perpetually serve the rotation

I have been thinking of this problem for decades I think, and unfortunately the solution seems to be what I have alluded above.



Consistently finding and hiring the right people over time is just too difficult to be truly sustainable over multiple generations. A project will always be a few bad hires away from collapse.

Maybe a sufficiently advanced AI serving as the "right person" in a governance role is the long-term sustainable solution to this, once that is a capability. Sounds crazy now, but probably less so in 10-20 years.


The same society run forever by heartless AI. Sounds dystopian. The problem then is stagnation. Death makes way for new life and young blood.


The first problem is how the AI can ensure people is not lying.

And AI can also has objective drift. A project will always be a few paperclips away from collapse. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/




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