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Gradual Disempowerment

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Gradual Disempowerment

Mutual Reinforcement We have so far focused on how the economy, culture, and states could independently become misaligned. A natural objection is that the different societal systems might be able to keep each other aligned through checks and balances. Indeed, we naturally think of these systems as balancing each other: states regulate the market, culture influences government, and so on. However, here we discuss how relationships between systems might actually make them less aligned. Specifically, we argue that: The relationships between societal systems are agnostic to human values — they do

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