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Shaping the Social Contract - The Intelligence Curse

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Summary: The intelligence curse will break the core social contract. While this suggests a grim future, understanding how economic incentives reshape societies points to a solution: we can deliberately develop technologies that keep humans relevant. To understand how we change the incentives that lead to the intelligence curse, we should understand the current social contract, and how it is set to break. Under the current social contract, powerful actors require people to sustain their power. This is true for governments. We’ve seen how richest states are those that have the richest, best-educated, most-productive citizens, and that grant those citizens the most extensive freedoms to work and think as they please. This gives citizens bargaining power—if their needs aren’t met, citizens can remove their leaders from power, since after all, the leaders cannot have an economy or a military without the people. It’s true as well for companies. We’ve seen how organizations that need high-cal

☰ The Intelligence Curse Art by Nomads & Vagabonds Shaping the Social Contract Summary : The intelligence curse will break the core social contract. While this suggests a grim future, understanding how economic incentives reshape societies points to a solution: we can deliberately develop technologies that keep humans relevant. To understand how we change the incentives that lead to the intelligence curse, we should understand the current social contract, and how it is set to break. Under the current social contract, powerful actors require people to sustain their power. This is true for gover

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