Episode 6.14: Thinking beyond the symptoms to the disease might also illustrate superintelligence.

An obvious objection to doing without leaders is that there are people like Putin who will come and land-grab and steal our stuff unless we do. But this is to mistake the symptoms of a problem for the problem. If none of us thought so highly of leaders, there wouldn’t be people like Vladimir Putin to worry about. Or at least that’s my pious hope.