Or maybe another great war could destroy civilization, and it's best not to play around it irresponsibly. Most of our ills are coordination failures. I believe

Or maybe another great war could destroy civilization, and it's best not to play around it irresponsibly. Most of our ills are coordination failures. I believe solutions are complex, because society is growing more complex. But we also need to find ways to reinvent ourselves so that we won't fall prey to the various instabilities we are subject to -- political instabilities, environmental instabilities, even AI safety instabilities. What is needed is a clear vision of our shared goal: to maximize the well being of all conscious creatures. As long as most of our system design is not aligned with that, we will be in significant danger. (To be honest, just existing in the long term is just so darn difficult -- something few people realize -- that even with such systems in place there are no guarantees)