When decisions have few externalities, decoupling bad from good decision makers by allowing people to make their own decisions works very well. When decisions have large externalities, only having most people able to make a good decision leads to a robustly safe outcome.
sadly, this is probably how human general intelligence got selected for in the first place. A series of crises that our hominid ancestors couldn’t solve any other way.
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This points out, though, that you can't live by System 1 alone. You need System 2 enough of the time that HGI is needed to dig yourself out of the crisis. (I'm being somewhat metaphorical about System 1 vs. System 2 here but not overly so.)
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Which means that people who are used to living by "don't make waves, it's always been okay to do things the usual way, storms come and go but they never have caused real harm so you should ignore them" eventually fail.
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