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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is the American System of Government Incompatible With the Poper Criterion?

No country has a system of government that perfectly fulfils propos criterion a. Criterion a can always improve. I think the british one is actually the best er in the world, and it's far from, far from optimal. Making a single change like that is not going to be the answer. The constitution of a polity is a very complicated thing, much of which is inexplicit. So if american government wanted to fulfil poper's criterion, would we need to give the president more power, for example? I it's not as simple as that.

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