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A political system that allows a benevolent dictatorship also puts you at much greater risk of a malevolent one.
Drawn from what Amanda Askell said
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What Amanda Askell actually said
- Amanda Askell Philosopher at Anthropic working on finetuning and AI alignment
A benevolent dictatorship may seem surprisingly alluring in bad times, but any political system that enables a benevolent dictatorship also puts you at much greater risk of a malevolent one.
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↗When robustly tolerable beats precariously optimal (Amanda Askell's Blog)askell.blog
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