Red Queen Governance can be drawn on two axes: the collective's power (capital, permissions, autonomy, attention) on one, its verified capacity to correct that power on the other. Safe operation is a corridor around the diagonal. Above it, power outruns correction and the collective drifts toward a despotic Leviathan; below it, correction smothers power and the collective is an absent Leviathan that loses the race. The corridor can be lost from either side, so both axes must keep rising.

groundsThe Narrow Corridor

one party may pull ahead of the other, yanking both out of the corridor.

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the more powerful and capable the Leviathan is, the more powerful and vigilant society must become.

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The chances of muddling through a narrow path and avoiding one or the other outcome, techno-authoritarian dystopia on the one hand, openness-induced catastrophe on the other, grow smaller over time

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our ability to empirically validate our alignment techniques is in practice arguably even more important than the alignment techniques themselves.

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prevent extreme concentration of power in a world where undertakings that would have taken thousands of experts now will be achievable by a few people operating a large computer.

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the test batteries could only be validated within the pre-existing range of cognitive ability yet must be applied to agents outside this range.