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Paul Smaldino & C. Thi Nguyen on Problems with Value Metrics & Governance at Scale (EPE 06)

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Are We Going Past the Ideal Scale of Humanity?

We need Jim Rutt on this conversation right because ultimately this is about have we actually overshot the scale at which we can effectively coordinate and all these studies like you know this. For me the real worry is there's no ideal scale of humanity because different things we want to be involved in demand different scales science works really big good on a huge scale solving problems like climate change our massive scale problems that everyone has to get together on. There are other things that work at medium or small scales and there's just this unsolvable scale clash my real worry is that different parts of us and our needs call us to different scales and there is not an optimal scale.

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