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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The History of Checks and Balances

The idea that no matter how you develop a system, it can be corrupted was built in. How do we make sure that no part gets too much power and that we have checks and balances throughout was kind of key? And so the separation of the market, the state, the church is a few other ways of thinking about separation was already a part of it. So there were many, many steps of checks and balances on concentrated power that were built into the system.

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