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Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

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    Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 19h19 hours ago

    Eliezer Yudkowsky Retweeted Geoffrey Miller

    Maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but I suspect Chinese culture would do better with America's system of government than America did. Democracy relied on conscientious voting with willing deference to expert advice, which is why Facebook killed it.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1049721802073624576?s=19 …

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    Geoffrey MillerVerified account @primalpoly
    Realistically, would China be a better place in 20 years if it adopted the same government system as America -- warts and all?
    12:17 PM - 10 Oct 2018
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      2. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 19h19 hours ago

        If I'm being too optimistic, it's because Facebook will be more advanced in 20 years, and/or Chinese culture might not be better at resisting it.

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      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 19h19 hours ago

        But by default we just expect similar outcomes to Taiwan or Japan or Singapore, right? I guess a very bad choice of central bank governors trying to look stern and paternalistic is another failure mode.

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      1. Mark Friedenbach‏ @MarkFriedenbach 18h18 hours ago
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        I would expect them to fare better with a European style parliamentary democracy rather than the two party setup we have. 2 party systems have a puppet-opposition failure mode that is too easy for a autocratic conditioned society to fall into.

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      1. John Carlos Baez‏ @johncarlosbaez 15h15 hours ago
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        It's impossible for China to adopt the US system of government (anytime soon) because this system makes absolutely no sense to most Chinese politicians. At best one could hope for a gradual Singaporification of Chinese government... but right now it's moving the other way.

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      1. cordyceps12‏ @cordyceps12 16h16 hours ago
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        I agree when I visited beijing 2 wks ago. just had a conversation with 2 austrians and a Canadian here in Koh Samui about what they thought of the idea of China running the world because that's where we're headed

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      2. Brian  🇲🇽 🇮🇱‏ @SpeakingBee 18h18 hours ago
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Facebook killed what?

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      3. Laszlo Treszkai‏ @ltreszkai 18h18 hours ago
        Replying to @SpeakingBee @ESYudkowsky

        The diversity of ideas and of people's preferences through Facebook's superhuman ability to deduce and influence our desires and news sources, and thus our opinions and voting preferences.

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      4. Brian  🇲🇽 🇮🇱‏ @SpeakingBee 18h18 hours ago
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        Meh. Most people don't form opinions on Facebook. Television is and long has been much stronger at smooshing diversity of preferences. And re-alignment was re-dividing us effectively decades before Facebook was founded.

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