But in this final portion of the book, we’re visiting the part of the River where people instead think about open-ended, so-called grand-world problems: everything from where best to spend your charitable contributions to the future of humanity itself. Grand-world problems are much easier to screw up, and the consequences for screwing up are much bigger. If a Riverian type can mess up as badly as SBF did on a congressional primary—a small-world problem—think about one with potentially civilization-altering technology like AI in their hands.
