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Lock-In Some Things To Prevent Worse Lock-In

Lock-in is mostly bad because it sacrifices optionality and risks one person running everything forever, but in a world with enormous control over the environment you might deliberately lock in certain protective constraints—such as ensuring no single person can ever hold all the power—precisely in order to prevent other, worse forms of lock-in.

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Speaker

Holden Karnofsky

Evidence Quote

I can imagine if you had this enormous amount of power over how the world works... you might want to lock in the fact that you should never have one person with all the power.

Source

Holden Karnofsky — History's most important centuryDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:22 AM

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