Just the sort of personality type that we need leading the most potentially dangerous new technology in the past 50 years.
There will always be subjectivity, and “the best” is going to be at least partly defined in terms of who is available. Nevertheless we could insist upon certain standards. Not being a pathological liar, a sociopath, deeply conflicted or self-interested, and so on, seem like good starting positions.
I’m not arguing that we live in a reality that reflects this, of course. Just that it would be nice to.
Things do not, in fact, have a way of "working out"
If we don't want bad things to happen, we have to actively stop bad things from happening
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The definition of survivorship bias because you literally are alive to say this.
Tens of millions have been killed by CEOs of tobacco companies, and that's just one industry. Energy companies will likely cause the death of billions.
We got rid of many dangerous American oligarchs in the Gilded Age by using govt to break them up. Things don't "just work out," people sacrifice huge amounts of time and energy to fix them.
For decades, people didn't even know it was dangerous to smoke or have lead in gasoline or burn fossil fuels because the information was systematically suppressed by the producers of those products.