America 3
- Eliminating the merit-based civil service will open vast new room for corruption across the United States.
- Central banks must be independent of politicians.
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, author of The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and the memoir In the Realm of the Last Man (2026); Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. Writes the Frankly Fukuyama column at Persuasion.
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AI alignment 2
- The chief danger of AI is increasingly capable agentic AI, not superintelligence.
- AI scenarios ending in human extinction are very far-fetched.
government 2
- The US government has become over-constrained in its ability to act.
- The unitary-executive theory is wrong: the modern executive branch needs a separation of powers inside it.