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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's Fundamentally Behind Most Political Failure?
The main thing that goes wrong in politics is people not agreeing on what the best thing to do is. So it's a bug, not a feature that there's an inability to arrive at a consensus. The failure to have trust for the authorities is sort of the underlying failure behind most political failure. We invade Iraq when we don't have an authority to tell us that's a really stupid thing to do. And it is possible to create more informative trust for the Authorities. That's a remarkable fact about the world of institutions that we could do that, but we aren't.
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