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The speaker says humans address unreliability and deception through checks and balances and decentralization, and that persistently lying to one's boss tends not to work out over time.

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“and the way we've solved it with humans is just checks and balances decentralization uh you could like lie to your boss and keep lying to your boss but it just over time it's just not going to work out with you or you become president or something but or”
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