AGI governance is a children's fantasy, argues researcher JD Pressman
jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-11
In a debate with Andrew Curran, JD Pressman criticizes the popular AGI vision that "governance is solved — you can have whatever you want so long as it doesn't violate fundamental natural laws." He calls it a children's fantasy, not a serious problem anything relies on: the nature of happiness and the good life has always been an afterthought to the immediate real problem of how to live together at all.
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