4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Singapore is unlikely to lead first on initiatives such as economic simulation because it is conservative and tends to wait for another party to act first.

swyx · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026

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“The main reason they won't is because they're very conservative.”
“if uh and you know i try to view it as the you know there's a founder-led country when you start a country or you start a company and it's founder-led and you can do whatever you want because it's your country and then there's managing like professional managerial class which is now that's that's what singapore is so they want to always want to see someone else do it first and but like everyone everyone in the west views singapore as like oh it's a small country you can do whatever the hell you want like singapore doesn't do that”
“So like someone else has to take the charge there.”
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