You know what I haven't done in a while?
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Putting in a request for a single imperial state governing the planet for next few centuries. It’s sole reason for being is reducing xrisk and ensuring we get through whatever great filter is keeping the stars quiet.
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Political and cultural diversity can flourish once we inherit the galaxy. Everything else irrelevant
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The issue is that political diversity etc is actually functional. You need an ecosystem of competing orders or you get homogenization into something very mortal.
Global superstate is a great dream, but it doesn't solve the key civilizational problems, and creates some new ones.
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