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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Power of the Elites
I think the elites to easily lose touch of the morals that the best of human nature and power corrupts. Their view is the one that determines what happens. So every power center thinks they're doing good. And so this is the positive of competition of not having multiple power centers. But remember we talked about separating our cold analysis of what's likely or possible from what we prefer. We might say, I would recommend we don't go this route of a strong world governance. Because it'll preclude this possibility of filling the nearest million galaxies for the next billion years with vast amounts of activity and interest and value of life out there.
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