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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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