Metacrisis

Trying to solve the metacrisis by giving lots of control to central authorities could lead to oppressive dystopias.

Technology is not values neutral. The dance with evolving technology that empowers can also destroy us. Technology shapes humanities perception of reality far more than we shape it.

Technological risks: Potential catastrophic impacts from advanced technologies like AI, biotech, cyber weapons, etc. becoming more accessible and powerful.
Environmental issues: Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, unsustainable resource extraction, etc. driven by an economic system requiring exponential growth on a finite planet.
Fragility of global systems: Increasing vulnerability of interconnected global supply chains, institutions, and international order to disruption.
Coordination failures: Inability to adequately address global challenges due to multipolar traps, arms races, short-term incentives, etc. that prevent necessary cooperation.

If everyone does their own thing without [coordination], things will likely end in catastrophe. The key challenge is finding a "third way" that avoids both catastrophic outcomes and dystopian centralized control.

Some technologies more reliably make the world better than others. We need active human intention to choose the directions that we want, as the formula of "maximize profit" will not arrive at them automatically - Techno Optimism, Vitalik