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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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Why Do Institutions Rot?

i still think it's relatively unlikely for a humanity to go extinct, in such a sonaria. But it's more likely than otherwise. So i'm actually more worried about a sort of rot and lock in than i am about a collapse. I'm more worried about some sort of lock in where we all sort of continue at a modest level of performance,. but we become less and less able to change or rise.

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