What I meant was, if you’re trying to discriminate between political/economic systems and notice “21st century capitalism / mix-mash-distribution-of-democracy-and-various-flavors-of-authoritatian-etc” doesn’t look on track to successfully navigate superintelligence, well, that might be true, but, it’s probably also true of most political/economic-systems that aren’t Dath Ilan or similar.
It seems true, but, something like “there are kinds of different ways to fail, there are relatively few ways to succeed, so failure isn’t actually that informative.”
What I meant was, if you’re trying to discriminate between political/economic systems and notice “21st century capitalism / mix-mash-distribution-of-democracy-and-various-flavors-of-authoritatian-etc” doesn’t look on track to successfully navigate superintelligence, well, that might be true, but, it’s probably also true of most political/economic-systems that aren’t Dath Ilan or similar.
It seems true, but, something like “there are kinds of different ways to fail, there are relatively few ways to succeed, so failure isn’t actually that informative.”