Authoritarian rule means you’ve gambled. You’re crossing your fingers and hoping that you get something more on the Singapore side of things, and something less on the Myanmar North Korea side of things. Mao was better before he got worse.
The only thing worse than authoritarian rule is entrenched futile feudal conflicts that are structurally feuding with proxy wars spilling over into all the low income countries, and then the messes start spilling back, if that’s what you care about.
The problem with our democracies right now is there likely to skip past the possible stable states and zoom straight to the dark ages.
Also you look at the current US administration and the priorities and … they’re certainly not Singaporean or particularly interested in x-risk mitigation
How would authoritarian rule make an international treaty on x-risk hopeless?
Authoritarian rule means you’ve gambled. You’re crossing your fingers and hoping that you get something more on the Singapore side of things, and something less on the Myanmar North Korea side of things. Mao was better before he got worse.
The only thing worse than authoritarian rule is entrenched futile feudal conflicts that are structurally feuding with proxy wars spilling over into all the low income countries, and then the messes start spilling back, if that’s what you care about.
The problem with our democracies right now is there likely to skip past the possible stable states and zoom straight to the dark ages.
Also you look at the current US administration and the priorities and … they’re certainly not Singaporean or particularly interested in x-risk mitigation