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Anders Sandberg | Post-Scarcity Civilizations & Cognitive Enhancement
The Foresight Institute Podcast
The Role of AGI in Coordination and Payloading
We cannot handle more than 150 direct personal connections and scaling it up to handle much more would require way bigger brain. Even a slight improvement of that would probably have a pretty powerful effect on our social world. We certainly know that our institutions can be super dangerous. But surely if I were to list the most dangerous inventions that you managed and made I would say governments is up there in the top five. Probably above nuclear weapons because when you look at situations where a lot of people have been killed actually governments killing their own or other people have been. It's just as much of an alignment problem as we have for AGI. Indeed you could argue that governments are AGI being run as software on
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