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The Role of Technology in the Long-Term World
The super structure or culture has to be upstream from social structure and in your social structure your governance layer has to have the adequate oodle loops. The rule of law must back a monopoly of violence that can bind any other actor from doing things that we collectively agree or don't want them to do. Any tech that we engage with creates patterns of human behavior that it end up affecting our experience of the world so you've got to also think through not just the physical externalities but the psychosocial externalities that are in turn affecting culture or the superstructure.