AI policy, strategy, and governance involves working with government officials within the political system. This will be very different if the relevant officials are fascists, who are selected for loyalty rather than competence.
The way you tell the story suggests that loyalty to the left is very important to prevent the political right from getting power. This dynamic means that people who sit in powerful chairs are more selected due to loyalty than competence.
The narrative of the importance of fighting fascism led to a media landscape where loyalty to leftwing thought is more important than it used to be a decade ago.
A system that selects for cognitive performance also doesn’t put a 80-year-old on top of its hierarchy.
I would expect that Xi’s China is better at selecting for competence in high-level positions than the current United States even if it’s worse than previous Chinese administrations.
I’m not really a fan of “woke” ideas, but in democracies, they are made much less dangerous by being a movement run by small numbers of highly educated elites, who may influence various institutions but lack a solid electoral base.
The whole problem of dictatorships is that they don’t need a solid electoral base. Pinochet didn’t get into power by winning an election and having a solid electoral base.
Those elites are already strong enough to do a lot of censorship of inconvenient reporting like that about Hunter Biden’s laptop or about lab leak at the current power balance.
The way you tell the story suggests that loyalty to the left is very important to prevent the political right from getting power. This dynamic means that people who sit in powerful chairs are more selected due to loyalty than competence.
The narrative of the importance of fighting fascism led to a media landscape where loyalty to leftwing thought is more important than it used to be a decade ago.
A system that selects for cognitive performance also doesn’t put a 80-year-old on top of its hierarchy.
I would expect that Xi’s China is better at selecting for competence in high-level positions than the current United States even if it’s worse than previous Chinese administrations.
The whole problem of dictatorships is that they don’t need a solid electoral base. Pinochet didn’t get into power by winning an election and having a solid electoral base.
Those elites are already strong enough to do a lot of censorship of inconvenient reporting like that about Hunter Biden’s laptop or about lab leak at the current power balance.