I don’t think we can eliminate the debt in a way that matters without making a bigger mess of it. There simply isn’t a constructive way out that we’re interested in.

But then we couldn’t have massive corruption and run up the national debt

Even if you approach the debt with a real solution, it’s almost impossible to follow through with it. As soon as we have a positive trajectory financially, the incentive is to bet that on more debt.

The system we’re currently using only works so long as we never get to where we are now.

If one AI breaks containment, then they all need to keep up with the performance.