I think a really important question in addressing this is something like—does the USA remain ‘unfanatical’ if the shackles are taken off powerful people. This is where I think the analysis of the USA goes a little bit wrong—we need to think about what the scenario looks like if it is possible for power to be much much more extremely concentrated than it is now. Certainly, in such a scenario, its not obvious thatit will be true post AGI that “even a polarizing leader cannot enforce a singular ideology or eliminate opposition”
I think a really important question in addressing this is something like—does the USA remain ‘unfanatical’ if the shackles are taken off powerful people. This is where I think the analysis of the USA goes a little bit wrong—we need to think about what the scenario looks like if it is possible for power to be much much more extremely concentrated than it is now. Certainly, in such a scenario, its not obvious thatit will be true post AGI that “even a polarizing leader cannot enforce a singular ideology or eliminate opposition”
Great point! I need to think about that framing more, I think.