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Eliezer Yudkowsky reposted Peter Hague @peterrhague · 7h I have a niggling worry about political systems, that they can have a permanent failure mode once the "meta" is known. Once the optimal way of fighting and winning an election is figured out (I think it has been) then democracy doesn't work any more. Once information about how to game the welfare system gets out it doesn't work anymore. There isn't a system which works for all time because there is always some cheat code that breaks it, and once the knowledge of it gets out, that system can never work right again.
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Dark-mode tweet by Peter Hague, reposted by Eliezer Yudkowsky, on political systems having a permanent failure mode once the 'meta' or cheat code for gaming them becomes known.
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