Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
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The Role of Technology in Unifying the World
I don't see technology as a decisive way to solve that global governance issue. I'm not sure we're getting any better at that. Back in the stone age it was like the tribe was the largest unit, maybe 60 people or something. We have over a billion people in China and large areas but also weak forms of global governance structures. It might be that we've already gone most of the way towards unifying the world. And we just have sort of one more order of magnitude to go.
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