HomeGrown Humans - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Existential Risk
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Is There a Third Attractor to Climate Change?
Even nominal progressive do gooders are now completely freaked out about any form of coordinated transnational governance. And so this is where I talk about catastrophes and dystopias as the two things we have to simultaneously prevent and find a third attractor that's neither. In order to avoid those catastrophes, you can't just use incentives. You have to be able to use deterrence, which is because somebody will figure out how to have enough incentive to do the whatever the fucked up thing is. So then who implements that to have enough control to prevent the decentralized catastrophe processes looks like an uncheckable power? But they're right. The history of uncheckable powers is not pretty
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