[O]n this model, making each factor more correlated can dramatically improve the expected value of the future — without improving the expected value of any individual factor at all.
Which could look like “averting a catstrophic disruption of an otherwise convergent win”.
Also note 4.2. in ‘How to Make the Future Better’ (and footnote 32) —
Which could look like “averting a catstrophic disruption of an otherwise convergent win”.