Conjecture

Ord names grand strategy for humanity and defines it as what all humans would do if we were sufficiently coordinated and held humanity's long-term interests at heart, then immediately concedes the frame is highly idealised because it obscures the challenges arising from our disunity. So the existential risk tradition and the strategic tradition converge on the same object under the same name, arrived at independently. The thing Ord brackets in order to make his frame work, how a disunited humanity could act as the coordinated agent the frame assumes, is the whole of our subject.

Coordination architecture