The supermind that governs powerful AI will be a combination, not a pure type. Malone's case for hierarchies tests each type alone, though his own fix (a democracy overseeing a hierarchy) is already a combination, and his objection to markets hits paying builders to stop, not markets that steer what a collective builds.

Evidence 3 passages

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  The closer I get to creating an SAI, the more you would be willing to pay me to stop

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  An obvious solution to that problem is to do what most modern societies do, let a democracy oversee the hierarchy that monitors and regulates AI development.

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  That leaves us only one possibility, hierarchies.

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